Assessment-informed arts leadership for global schools

Designing programs and pathways that make student growth visible.

Meridian partners with schools, families, teachers, and students to elevate visual arts education, strengthen admissions strategy, and create measurable impact.

Dr. Lorne Brandt
Founder & Executive Director

25+Years in education
IB/APGlobal curricula
3Connected pillars
The goal is not to impose a generic arts curriculum. The goal is to design a sustainable program architecture that fits the school, strengthens the teachers, and makes student growth visible.

Meridian Institute for Arts & Inquiry

Three connected pillars. One coherent philosophy.

Meridian combines arts leadership, assessment calibration, and university pathways under a single commitment: making student growth visible and meaningful.

Arts Leadership & School Consulting

Program architecture, standards alignment, curriculum pathways, faculty strengths, and sustainable visual arts development.

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Assessment & Calibration

Evidence routines, portfolio expectations, completion/formative/summative grading models, and team-wide assessment conversations.

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University Pathways

Admissions counseling, college lists, essay strategy, extracurricular planning, international student advocacy, and family advising.

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Built for schools that need more than a generic plan.

Meridian helps schools move from good intentions to clear structures: standards alignment, evidence of learning, teacher calibration, and sustainable program design.

The result is a visual arts program that fits the school, strengthens the teachers, and gives students clearer pathways to communicate growth.

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