what is ischool for the future?
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Enabling
Compassionate Innovation through
Creative STEM and 21st Century Skills
The traditional educational
system was designed over 150
years ago for a time when most
people couldn’t read and
write.
Then
Free and compulsory public
education was a revolutionary
idea for the time.
Later, education was
standardized and “streamlined”
into an assembly line, to be
more efficient.
Equipped with research, tools, and
science, we know that children
start our journey in life full of
creative genius potential.
In a world where knowledge is
becoming a commodity and is
easily accessible from any device
anywhere at any time, we must
focus on creative thinking.
We must find a way to harvest and
develop the true creative potential
in our children and help them
discover and nurture the talents
that will set them up for success in
the world of tomorrow.
Now
Challenge Our schools today face the
challenge of “preparing
students for jobs that don’t yet
exist, using technologies that
haven’t been invented, in order
to solve problems we don’t
even know are problems yet”
- Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod
• Develop creative potential
• Engage talents and strength
• Teach critical skills Solutions
I learned how to learn
Help our children
LEARN with Passion,
DREAM with Empathy,
SUCCEED with Excellence.
We enable Compassionate Innovation
through Creative STEM and 21st Century
Life Skills.
Mission
What is the ‘i’ in iSchool?
Individual
is how we look at every child with his or her unique
strengths and talents
Integrated
is our curriculum because it integrates us with our
environment and combines all subjects into hands-on
real life projects
Innovative
is our culture that encourages children to see the world
as a whole and brings them into the 21st Century
Inspirational
is our environment that inspires every child to dream
big, experiment, and be not afraid to fail
Experiential
Hands-on
Learning
Personalized
Teaching /
Multiple
Intelligences
Global
Perspective
21st Century
Life Skills
4 PILLARS of our approach
STEAM SEL Approach • Unique, tested,
effective
• Research Based
• Supported by data
• Focus on 21st Century
Social and Emotional
Learning
• To enable success in
Science, Technology,
Engineering, Art, Math
Perseverance
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Community ScienceNight
Camp Afterschool Library Workshop
Student Reach by Program
2013 2014 2015
Program Type 2013 2014 2015 Grand Total
Community 80 170 675 925
Science Night 460 220 680
Camp 47 42 49 138
Afterschool 15 55 65 135
Library 45 12 57
Workshop 15 8 23
Grand Total 142 787 1029 1958
Our Achievements = Our Student’s Growth
This is fantastic!!! My son said that the class was super duper cool and he was so excited he was in it because it combined science, math, and art - his 3
favorite subjects!!
- Parent, Afterschool
“ - Dr. Pamela Garner, New Century College, George Mason University
“
A great way for kids to see how science is
incorporated into real-life situations
Parent, Science Night
“ These science nights served
as a prime example of how to make learning come
alive for children
Forestville ES, Principal Todd Franklin
“
Grounded in solid educational research, iSchool for the Future prepares children for success in the 21st century. It helps them be happier and more effective learners. It can change the way they think about themselves and their future".
What our success sounds like
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