EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT 92 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2025 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL They will review supplementary instructional materials and discuss concerns with the family before making a final evaluation and recommendation. Ryan Haynes, director of Upper School Personal and Academic Counseling at Taipei American School, advises students to go a step further and communicate with the receiving school the courses they were planning to take the following year and share the course catalog and course descriptions. If there are questions about course titles or content, Rebecca Sharp, executive director of student services in Falls Church City Public Schools (FCCPS), notes that providing a course syllabus or curriculum plan and course outline can help confirm the rigor and depth of a subject and whether it is gradeappropriate. The REOs can help coordinate with international school counselors to facilitate the transcript transition. As Andrew Hoover states, “We recognize there are transcript translation challenges—if you transition to the U.S., you, as the parent, may be responsible for managing the translation of the transcripts, and I don’t mean from a foreign language.” The REOs meet with counselors during post visits and will consult with families so they know what questions to ask and how to prepare. In some cases, according to Hoover, the origin school may arrange for a high school student who leaves midsemester to do some kind of extended learning so that the student can enroll in a U.S. public high school and yet receive the final course credit from the origin school. He also notes that it may be helpful REOs can help coordinate with international school counselors to facilitate the transcript transition.
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