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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