Through a partnership with the American Creativity Academy, Saint Mary’s is offering graduate education for teachers in Kuwait.
The American Creativity Academy is the largest private school in Kuwait educating over 6,000 girls and boys in PreK-12 on multiple campuses. For more than 20 years, the American Creativity Academy has offered values-based education with an American curriculum. “Our mission is to be the premiere American school in the region,” said Dr. Claire Shea, head of the School for the American Creativity Academy and Saint Mary’s faculty, “and our partnership with Saint Mary’s ensures that our teachers are prepared to offer excellent classroom instruction as well as to become educational leaders.”
Sama Educational Company operates the campuses of American Creativity Academy (ACA) in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Oman. Dahi Al Fadhli, chief executive officer of Sama Educational Company, has consistently supported the partnership with Saint Mary’s as a Catholic university because of his belief in faith-based education, and recently received an honorary Doctorate of Educational Leadership degree during Saint Mary’s commencement ceremony June 1 in Minneapolis. Al Fadhli has served as deputy secretary general of Kuwait’s Ministry of Islamic Affairs, as well as an economic researcher for the Kuwait Central Bank and director of development and planning for the Shuaiba Industrial Company.
More than 120 teachers are enrolled in the M.A. in Education and Ed.S. in Educational Administration programs through Saint Mary’s. This partnership is expanding to include a cohort of teachers in Saint Mary’s Executive Ed.D. program.
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