The AERO Vision

American-sponsored overseas schools will know how standards-based education can and should strengthen a school’s curriculum, teaching, assessment, and, most importantly, student learning. These schools will develop and sustain a program of standards-based learning in their schools.

The AERO Mission

• Provide challenging, professionally-validated, voluntary academic standards for use as a foundation for curriculum in American-sponsored schools overseas
• Assist overseas schools to develop their own K-12 curricula that are grounded in standards
• Train teachers to use the AERO standards as the basis for assessing their students’ progress and their own instruction
• Assist schools in developing standards-based curricula and sustaining curricula by becoming professional communities of learners.