Palpable impact on the educational landscape of Jamaica

AS WE immerse ourselves in the fifth industrial revolution, education continues to be the panacea for the nescience that can derail and threaten the progress of any society. Indeed, the members of the 51-year-old Jamaica Independent Schools Association (JISA) are acutely cognisant of this fact and, as such, they have maintained an abiding commitment to the quality of education that is offered by their members over the years.

JISA continues to make a palpable impact on the educational landscape of Jamaica and, by extension, our global village. The association has been purposeful in the efforts exerted in achieving the articulated United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and in particularly SDG-4 that addresses the matter of equity and equality in accessing educational opportunities. Certainly, JISA’s members have been devoted to their call in responding to the wide spectrum of diversity in students’ ability and learning styles through responsive leadership and adept pedagogical acumen. They have been phenomenal!

The association through its membership has maintained a formidable force in this VUCA environment that we must navigate. Undoubtedly, they have remained indefatigable as they engineered creative ways in order to respond to the needs of this time.

Indeed, JISA’s visibility will be magnified in this the fifth staging of JISA Week 2020 under the theme: ‘Private Education in Jamaica; The True Story’. The Independent Schools’ Unit in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information joins this quintessential association in the celebration occasioned by JISA Week 2020. Congratulations, JISA.