Administration

Provincial Fr. Visiteur – Fr. Regis Robe

Director General Suleiman Rabadi

Vice Directors

Issa Deeb -Vice Director Secondary
Br. Daoud Kasabreh – Vice Director Secondary – GCE
Saliba Kuttab – Vice Director – Beit Hanina
Ghadeer Bishara – Vice Director for Development & Public Realtions
Marlen Shehadeh – Beit Hanina / Head of KG-1st Grade
Khader Khader – Head of KG-8th Grade – New Gate

Brothers Community

Fr. Rafael GonzalezMEL Coordinator
Fr. Daoud Kasabreh Br. Coordinator Lassalian activities
Collège des Frères is one of over 1,000 schools world-wide that is owned and operated by the Congregation of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, also known as the De La Salle Christian Brothers, based in Rome, Italy. Collège des Frères- Jerusalem is under the Umbrella of RELEM and belongs to the Near East District which includes Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and Turkey. The Near East District’s main office is in Beirut Lebanon and is headed by Fr. Georges Absi, the Provincial-Frères-Visiteur who is responsible for overseeing these schools and appointing the director of each school in the District, and nominates the Brothers of each community.

Collège des Frères-Jerusalem provides classes from Kindergarten through 12th Grade. The School is divided into three sections: Little Lassalian -Kindergarten and 1st Grade, Primary School – 2nd Grade through 8th Grade, and Secondary School – 9th Grade through 12th Grade. There is a total enrollment to-date of 1456 students, 590 at New Gate, and 800 at Beit Hanina. The school employs 90 teachers and 35 employees.

Each section in the School is headed by a Vice Director who is responsible for the administration and development of the students in the section, upholding the rules and regulations, the implementation of the curriculum, supervision of the teaching staff, and extra-curricular activities. Together the Director with the vice directors form the Administrative Council that oversees the running of the school

The Director and Vice Directors are assisted by a team of First Teachers for Social Studies, Mathematics, Sciences and the Languages. They give support to teachers in planning, teaching and evaluate their work. They team up with administrators to oversee of the curriculum and monitoring its implementation in the classroom.

An Academic Board, comprised of the Director, Vice Directors and First Teachers, and representatives of teachers, students and parents, is responsible for the quality of education at Collège des Frères-Jerusalem. This Board meets regularly to review and evaluate programs, instruction and performance of the students, and to further develop the academic and extra-curricular content of the School.

Academic Board

Administrators:

Suleiman Rabadi, Issa Deeb, Marlen Shehadeh, Saliba Kuttab, Daoud
Kasabreh, Khader Khader & Ghadeer Bishara.

Representatives:
Ghadeer Bishara – Head of the English department.
Aida salameh – Head of the Arabic department / New Gate
Khamis Dabeet – Head of the Math Department
Gahada Shubeita- Head of the Science Department / Beit Hanina
Nassim Abdallah – Head of the Social studies department / Beit Hanina
Omar Abed Rabbo – Head of the Social studies department / New Gate
Ghassan Rafidi – Head of Arabic department / Beit Hanina
Janet Smeir – Head of the Special Education department
Nabil Abdallah – Social Work Department / New Gate
Janette Saleh – Social Work department / Beit Hanina

Academic programs

Collège des Frères is a non- profit private Palestinian school that teaches the Palestinian Curriculum and graduates more than 65 students every year in both Scientific and Literary Tawjihi streams. The school, also, offers the option of student enrollment in a GCE class (British system) and offers subjects at the Ordinary and Advanced GCE levels. The school is known for teaching languages such as English, French and Hebrew.

Specialized Departments

The school has a Social Work department that caters for the students who have social and psychological problems, and at the same time, work on a number of programs and projects that would reinforce leadership skills, democratic values and help the students in their choices concerning university specializations and careers. The school has 4 social workers that help students and often parents. The Special Education (SE) department is also a special feature of the school. The SE department has5 teachers who work with more than 100 students with learning difficulties and provide all the services possible to reabsorb kids with Learning disabilities in the normal school cycle and life.

Curricular and extra-curricular activities

Part of the vision of the school is to offer the student a holistic education. Students, in their social and epistemological formation, need to participate in all kinds of curricular or extra-curricular activities that help them develop their personalities in an interesting learning environment. The school offers art, music and sport classes in its curricula and offers more than 35 extracurricular activities. Some of its extra-curricular activities include, clubs for English, French, Cinema, Heritage, Dabkeh dance, Drama, Astronomy and Science. In addition students are given the opportunity to learn a variety of instruments and perform and participate in various concerts inside and outside the school.