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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,...
To help create a larger sense of community among ISA math teachers and to foster collaboration, ISA hosted its first...
This September, Detroit Delta Preparatory School for Social Justice (Delta Prep), which is an independent charter school in Detroit, MI,...
This past summer 14 Institute for Student Achievement (ISA) students participated in the second year of the High School Summer...
The first of the seven ISA principles is to provide students with a college preparatory instructional program. ISA schools do...
One intent of the Common Core is to engage students in deeper learning. Doing so requires teachers to rethink their...
