ECA Mission
ECA is an inclusive learning community that encourages students to be compassionate, lifelong learners, responsible global citizens, and champions of their individual success.
ECA Vision
ECA will empower students to strive for excellence through academic, personal, and social growth within a safe, trusting, and enduring environment in order to achieve their full potential.
Why ECA exists
With close to 90 years of tradition in Caracas, Escuela Campo Alegre strives to be the best international school in Venezuela. As the US Embassy assisted school in Caracas, we provide an American education with exceptional opportunities for developing leadership skills and academic excellence in all disciplines and also through the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP).
We have extensive resources including world class facilities needed to shape future global citizens. Our education extends to sports and performing arts, at our very own art workshops, theater, tennis courts, swimming pool, basketball courts, well equipped playgrounds and a full size soccer field.
Our community follows the Campo Way which consists of values and commitments of being responsible, respectful, safe, and always doing our best. We also take pride in being an inclusive and safe community for students, teachers, and parents; forming well rounded and globally connected members.
Our infrastructure and security team ensures that our students and staff are secure at all times, with constant surveillance throughout the campus.
ECA has an adaptive education style that caters to the needs of each student. As the world around us changes, we embrace innovative methods of learning and teaching, such as artificial intelligence, project-based learning, and design thinking.
Our emphasis on academic excellence prepares students for the universities of their choice including prestigious elite universities in the US and beyond.
ECA develops the six approaches to teaching and five approaches to learning stipulated by IB.
At ECA, teaching is:
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Based on inquiry
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Focused on conceptual understanding
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Developed in local and global contexts
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Focused on effective teamwork and collaboration
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Designed to remove barriers to learning
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Informed by assessment
At ECA, the five categories (HATLs) of learning are:
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Thinking skills (critical, creative, and ethical)
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Research skills (comparing, contrasting, validating, and prioritizing)
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Communication skills (written and oral, effective listening, and formulating arguments)
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Social skills (forming and maintaining positive relationships, listening skills, and conflict resolution)
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Self-management skills (organizational skills affective skills, such as managing state of mind and motivation)
ECA students:
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Live the Campo Way by being responsible, respectful, safe, and always doing their best.
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Strive to develop the IB learner profile traits of being:
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Inquirers, knowledgeable, thinkers, communicators, principled, open-minded, caring, risk-takers, balanced, and reflective.
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Guiding statements were approved by the ECA Board of Directors on May 9, 2024