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Just as beliefs, attitudes, and context significantly impact students’ educational experience, they also have a tremendous impact on the relationship...
With the development of its High School SuccessNavigator™ (HSSN) product, ISA has created a powerful tool to assess non-cognitive factors...
Recent studies on non-cognitive factors conducted by the University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research (CSSR) and the Stanford...
Brandon Baiden and Monica Moore are both 2008 alumni of ISA partner high schools, Queens High School of Teaching and...
The nine-year-old Academy for Young Writers in Brooklyn, NY exemplifies the nature of ISA’s successful school partnerships. A shared core...
Since 1987 and the landmark report on education, A Nation at Risk, educators, politicians, philanthropists, and community leaders have been...
“The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out;...
At Queens High School of Teaching, Liberal Arts and the Sciences, every child has the chance to grow and develop...
Now it its 11th year of operation, Brooklyn Preparatory High School is one of ISA’s most mature schools. The school...
Mary Ellen Tyrrell teaches Geometry at the Institute for Health Professions in Queens, NY. She is a fourth-year math teacher....
We are finally coming to understand as educators, and as a nation, that effective, high-quality coaching is as essential to...
This article originally appeared in SEEN Magazine and online here. Throughout my years as an educator — English teacher, counselor,...
An ISA partner school, ELLIS Preparatory Academy, is an international school in the Bronx specifically designed to serve students ages...
Effective March 2, 2015, the more than decade-long ban on cell phones in NYC public schools was lifted. Mayor Bill...
ISA has designed mathematics and writing formative assessments that are grade level appropriate for 9th and 10th graders and aligned...
