(For this blog post we had the chance to chat with ISA coach Mayra Rodriguez. Mayra joined the ISA team in 2019 after...
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Coach’s Corner: A Conversation with ISA Science Coach Debbie Smithey
(Debbie Smithey joined the ISA team in 2017. She was a science educator in the Philadelphia school district for 39...
Mathematical Musings from ISA Partner School Carver High School
The math team from Carver High School in Winston-Salem presented at the annual conference for the North Carolina...
Maze Moments: Help Students Understand the Process of Learning
This blog post originally appeared at the Room 241 blog for Concordia University, Portland and was written by Jennifer...
Mathematics teaching and social, emotional, and academic development
ISA’s work in the area of social, emotional, and academic development (SEAD) has been piloted by teachers and coaches...
The Inquiry-based Approach to Teaching Math: Teaching Students to be Mathematical Thinkers
Mary Ellen Tyrell and Sapphira Hendrix do not teach at the same schools. They do not know each other. They do not...
FAQ on ISA Coaching for Content Area Teachers
Q: How are ISA coaches selected? A: Dr. Jacqueline Ancess, co-director of the National Center for Restructuring...
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...
Four Key Factors for Leadership and Instructional Coaching
Coaching is a key resource that ISA offers its schools. Each ISA school is matched with an external school...
Meeting Higher Standards in Mathematics and Inquiry Instruction
Contributed by Jonathan D. Katz, Ed.D Students have sat in mathematics classrooms year after year often feeling what...
