A DP Parent and Student Perspective on IB

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This episode of IB Matters was originally recorded at Rockford High School for the benefit of the Rockford Schools community. We edited this version to serve as a more universal example of how families see the role of IB as part of a comprehensive education which still dovetails with traditional expectations of parents and students for the entire high school experience.

If you have listened to previous episodes from Rockford, you will remember that Rockford High School, located about 30 miles west of Minneapolis, is a candidate school for three IB Programmes: the MYP, DP, and the CP.

In this podcast, we hear from veteran IB parent, Krisanthy Sikkila and her daughter Anastsia about what IB added to the high school experience and how IB prepared Anastasia (and her sister) for university. 

The host is Maris Ehlers; a parent with two students in Rockford schools.

IB has many resources for parents looking to research the benefits of IB for their children on the IB website at IBO.org. 

Now that we have a large number of IB Matters episodes covering a range of topics, we have created a webpage for this podcast which is organized by programme and by topic. So, you can find episodes featuring IB related topics without scrolling through our whole list which is now approaching 40 episodes.

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