At ISA we foster curiosity, creativity, and a passion for learning that inspires students to look beyond simple answers and facts, to pursue truth and understanding. We cultivate students’ thinking skills and learning dispositions in ways that lead to greater self-awareness, genuine open-mindedness, and deeper content learning.
At ISA we have established a “culture of thinking” through our partnership with Harvard University’s Project Zero and its Visible Thinking Network. It is the project’s mission “to help create communities of reflective, independent learners; to enhance deep understanding within disciplines, and to promote critical and creative thinking.” As one of the project’s collaborating schools, ISA has become a site for biannual “Culture of Thinking” conferences led by Ron Ritchhart, Ph.D. and others from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, and attended by educators from around the world. In the years since this collaboration began in 1998, ISA faculty have benefited tremendously and integrated the project’s core practices across grade levels and subject areas to guide students in making their thinking visible.
For more information please visit the
Harvard Project Zero web page.
Visit their
“Visible Thinking Pictures of Practice” to see featured ISA teachers and students.
