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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...
by Lance Ozier, Ed.D; Senior Literacy Specialist More than 100 ninth graders at the Benjamin Franklin School for Finance and...
David Conley, an expert on what students need to be prepared for college asserts that schools must create a college...
ISA’s research-based high school model directly addresses preparation for college in the first of its seven design principles, which is...
In December, Lance W. Ozier, senior literacy specialist for the Institute for Student Achievement (ISA), spoke at the 2014 Beijing...
How a NYC public school prepares graduates for careers, and higher education. In today’s world, having a high school diploma...
When Lauren Brady began working as a math teacher at Park East High School in Manhattan in 2004-05 school year,...
Coaching is a key resource that ISA offers its schools. Each ISA school is matched with an external school development...
By Crystal Davis, school counselor at the Institute for Health Professions at Cambria HeightsAt the Institute for Health Professions at...
The Institute for Student Achievement is sad to report the passing of Gerard “Gerry” Leeds, who cofounded ISA with his...
On Thursday, October 30, 2014, eleven math coaches from The Institute for Student Achievement (ISA) gathered at the Teachers College,...
In 2009, the federal government awarded $3.5 billion in Student Improvement Grants (SIGs) to fund rapid improvement of underperforming schools....
Districts approach high school reform in several ways. One approach is to develop a number of new schools of choice,...
