The Santo Domingo Bilingüe School, was founded in 1977, the institution began work on the 73rd race number 36 A 36 south of the Carvajal neighborhood, with only 60 students, its founders: MENANDRO FLAVIO BURBANO RUALES AND BLANCA MARÍA TORRES DE BURBANO, they were the only teachers, who in turn were also in charge of administrative and service functions; his journey was hard, like any institution that started, had difficulties that thanks to the determination and desire of its leaders could be overcome.
The PEI of the School, from its foundation was titled "to educate is to teach to live", based on the teachings of Juan Jacobo Rousseau and the Christian and catholic precepts that San Juan Bosco bequeathed us, in his indisputable contribution to the current pedagogy by the method preventive, which warns students of the consequences of the incorrect assimilation of knowledge and bad works.
Preescolar y básica primaria fueron aprobados el 17 de mayo de 1977 por medio de la resolución Número 772, el 17 de diciembre de 1986 se aprueban los grados 6º y 7º mediante la resolución 005417, al siguiente año el 7 de septiembre se obtiene la formalización de los grados 8º y 9º, mediante la resolución 003101. El grado 10º, se aprueba, el 30 de diciembre de 1989 por la resolución 004815 y el grado 11 en noviembre 1º de 1989 por la resolución 003767. Graduando nuestros primeros bachilleres el 02 de Diciembre de 1990.
In the period from 2001 to 2007 the PEI was worked with the title: "Concerted administration to train symbolic analysts with a productive mentality" taking into account the concept of the case of the Taylorian and Fayol organizations.
From this moment four administrative paradigms were worked on, which are:
Efficiency Paradigm: in economic terms it is the least effort, the least investment - maximum results; planning in terms of productivity.
Efficiency paradigm: The fulfillment of achievements and objectives is to say that teachers and managers had to fulfill the objectives set by the Ministry of Education, this style is of a pedagogical nature.
Effectiveness paradigm: it is a relation between the previous ones that always looks for the common good, that is to say it is political style..
Finally the fourth relevance paradigm, seeks to fully assess the situation, expressed in cultural terms.
In 2007, Decree 3870 of November 2, 2006, issued by the MEN, which speaks of the bilingualism process, was carried out; this new program is started, with the support of professors specialized in English, having as a fundamental purpose the implementation of the foreign language (English), since knowledge is universal and only with the mastery of this language can we transcend the borders and embed ourselves in the global knowledge village.
Within the process of converting the School into Bilingual, several projects have been developed since 2006:
1. Awareness and training and intensification of English in the curriculum: From 2006 to 2009.
2. The area of Natural Sciences constitutes the first one different from the area of English in adopting the foreign language as an articulating language: Year 2010
3. The area of Arts is incorporated as the third bilingual area: Year 2012
4. Systems and Physical Education are incorporated as areas that are taught in English: Year 2013
5. The transverse project of bilingualism is constructed, which is filed before the Secretary of Education of Bogotá and after an exhaustive verification of the curricular and personnel conditions, we were granted the resolution as a bilingual institution on January 14, 2014.
6. In 2014 the institution adopts its bilingual cross-curricular curriculum where 50% of the subjects per degree are taught in the foreign language (English)
7. During the years 2015-2016, we hired a sufficient number of certified bilingual teachers and foreign teachers to be able to materialize our bilingual cross-curricular curriculum.
8. In 2016, the international certification exams for English were implemented and the Hudson School of English S.A.S was founded as an allied and support entity in the process of formation and accompaniment of the bilingualism process
9. In 2017 the signing of the exchange agreement with District 51 of the city of Lethbrige in the province of Alberta-Canada was made. 26 students, one area manager and two managers participate in this program.
On August 15, 2005, the Santo Domingo Bilingüe School, is part of an agreement with SENA, for the training of tenth and eleventh grade students, initially as "Professional Technician in Food Processing" TPA, in which graduated two promotions, later in 2007; By decision of SENA, the degree was changed to "Fruit and Vegetable Processing Technician". Through the articulation with the SENA the School carries out the training, according to the curriculum established by this institution, by means of the integration of the different areas, especially Agro-industry and Business Chair, according to the emphasis of the School, receiving Thus, the student holds a bachelor's degree with an emphasis in agro-industry and, in addition, a degree in fruit and vegetable processing as a technician issued by SENA. During 2013, under the leadership of the Academic Assistant Manager and the remarkable effort of the teacher Rosmary Deaza, the agreement for the area of digital pre-press for printed media was processed; In this way, as of 2014, ninth grade students opt for secondary education, for one of the three emphases that the institution has, Agroindustry, Systems or English, according to their vocational aptitude.
In this way we have built the pedagogical dream of our founders; to put education at the service of our society, adapting ourselves to its moral, cultural, political and, above all, Christian requirements.
