(This post was written by Janet Price; after a long career with the New York City Department of Education and ISA,...
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ISA’s June 2023 Newsletter
Summer of 2023: Relax, Reflect, Recharge Stand tall, students and teachers, as you close out this school year. You...
ISA’s May 2023 Newsletter
Well Done, Class of 2023! And Congrats to ISA Coach Christina Farinacci-Roberts! On May 8 ISA coach Christina...
New ESSA Legislation Places Evidence-based Reform Front and Center
With the December 10, 2015 passage of the nation’s new education legislation, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA),...
Non-cognitive Factors: School Context, Not Student Character
Recent studies on non-cognitive factors conducted by the University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research...
ISA College Grads: A Living Legacy
Brandon Baiden and Monica Moore are both 2008 alumni of ISA partner high schools, Queens High School of Teaching and...
Coaching: Key to Sustained High Performance
We are finally coming to understand as educators, and as a nation, that effective, high-quality coaching is as...
Helping Persistently Failing Schools
This article originally appeared in SEEN Magazine and online here. Throughout my years as an educator — English...
How the ISA Model Promotes “College for All”
David Conley, an expert on what students need to be prepared for college asserts that schools must create a college...
How ISA Gets Results
ISA’s research-based high school model directly addresses preparation for college in the first of its seven design...