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The Back-to-School season is always a time of excitement and anticipation for everyone—school teams, parents, and students the most. At Maple Bear, the 2024-2025 Academic year will be once again a remarkable one, filled with the joy of new knowledge, the formation of lasting friendships, and the promise of endless...

For the first time, the Program on International Student Assessment (PISA) has measured the creative thinking skills of 15-year-old students, assessing their ability to generate, evaluate, and improve ideas. As we navigate the complex environmental, social, and economic changes of the 21st century, it is crucial for students to be...

Our 1st Annual Global Maple Bear Conference, held in the picturesque locale of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, was a huge success. For the first time, this event brought together our most important stakeholders to create, collaborate and celebrate 20 years of Maple Bear’s success: our Canadian faculty members, global partners, school owners...

From its inception in 2004 to the present day, the trajectory of Maple Bear has been marked by innovation and an unwavering commitment to providing top-tier Canadian-based bilingual education on a global scale. From Inspiration to Creation Rodney Briggs, Founder of Maple Bear Global Schools, was inspired by an idea...

The theme for Earth Day 2024 is Planet vs. Plastics, a commitment to call for the end of plastics “for the sake of human and planetary health”. The theme’s proposed goal is to reduce the production of plastics by 60% in 2040 and ultimately build a plastic-free future. Therefore, all...

The first Polish-Canadian primary school and kindergarten Maple Bear, belonging to the world’s largest educational network, were ceremoniously opened on September 4th 2023. After an 8-month renovation of the historic building at Stawowa 6 in Katowice, the Maple Bear campus welcomed its first students and their parents.  The 2023/24 school...

EMPOWERING EDUCATORS FOR A GLOBAL FUTURE Maple Bear has a robust training program that requires our Canadian faculty members to train, mentor, and coach our teachers in their own classroom environment in their own country. We want to ensure our trainers are equipped with the most up-to-date knowledge in the...

The first Maple Bear school in Poland welcomed parents and children to the Open House event in May. Education plays a pivotal role in shaping the minds of future generations and equipping them with the necessary skill for success. In an exciting development for the city of Katowice, Maple Bear...

With regards to the upcoming Earth Day demonstrating support for environmental protection and awareness, we are happy to announce that we have the first two countries in Central & Eastern Europe incorporating our Global Connections for Sustainability Program! The program, which creates forward thinking citizens and a global family, provided...

Maple Bear Schools around the world raised more than $250,000 this past October to support cancer research initiatives in their local communities TORONTO, Ontario, Canada, January 31, 2023 – Maple Bear Global Schools, a Canadian company and the largest international education brand in the world, is preparing its students to...