This year has been quite a unique experience for all of us, especially our students. With the arrival and spread of COVID-19, our students had to adjust to major changes in their learning styles. After some intense planning and rearranging, our fun in-person classes shifted to online-only format and we successfully launched our first series […]
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As educators nationwide are preparing to welcome students and adults back to school this fall, Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning with support of over 40 partners created this Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Roadmap toward reuniting, renewing, and thriving in a new school year, centered on relationships and built on the existing strengths of a school community. […]
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We at iSchool are excited to share the highlights of our 2018 summer learning! Knowing that the summer slide is real for most children, we create opportunities for students to apply what they learned during the school year and make sense of it through real life projects. In addition to sharpening their cognitive skills, we […]
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This summer saw a lot of changes, including a new age-differentiated curriculum that introduced young children to 21st Century Life Skills and prodded older children to learn more about the skills and how they apply to their lives. With the help of educational specialists in the spring, we also changed the order of the skills […]
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iSchool builds all of its programming around our core curriculum that builds 21st Century Life Skills. This sets us apart from other organizations offering STEAM programs and is the reason for our success. In spring 2016 we offered two classes at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School in Falls Church: our introductory Innovation Lab 1 class, which […]
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“It feels like… a Leader.” We conducted exit interviews of students at the end of the Innovative Engineering and Robotics Course through the Excel Beyond the Bell Collaborative in partnership with the Davinci STEAM School of Engineering for Youth. We are so proud of the impact we made on the lives of these young people […]
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Our partnership with the Davinci STEAM School of Engineering for Youth to offer an Innovative Engineering and Robotics Course through Excel Beyond the Bell and three Montgomery County Public Schools (Neelsville MS, Montgomery Village MS, and Col. E. Brooke Lee MS) is leading to socioemotional gains and improved understanding of engineering and robotics for the […]
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iSchool joined over 1,000 organizations – including some of the largest STEM companies in the world – in engaging and delighting visitors at the 2016 USA Science and Engineering Festival, held in Washington D.C. iSchool directly engaged with over 1,000 visitors during the April 15 Sneak Peak event and April 16 Public Expo. Our variety […]
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Watch a video about the Day! iSchool for the Future had the pleasure of teaming up with Orbital ATK in Dulles, VA to present a STEM Expo and Rocket Contest on Take our Daughters and Sons to Work Day, (April 28, 2016). In line with the national event, our theme was “Sparking Aha! Moments.” We […]
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nbsp& iSchool for the Future is proud to be an Official Partner of the 4th USA Science & Engineering Festival, to be held April 15-17, 2016 in Washington, D.C. Find us at Booth 1349 on Friday, April 15 and Saturday, April 16. Try out MakeyMakey Musical Circuit Boards, Choppers, Math Games, and Electromagnetic Sculptures and Trains! […]
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