Beyond the Classroom

Students meet in small, grade-level groups at the beginning of the school day with a designated advisor. Advisory provides a structure and a set of practices for monitoring and supporting students’ academic progress and social and emotional development. The aspects of advisory that we focus on are:

• Promoting opportunities for social development
• Assisting students with academic problems
• Facilitating positive involvement between and among teachers, administrators and students
• Providing an adult advocate for each student in the school
• Promoting positive school climate

For more on our rich After School Activities (ASA) program for middle schoolers, go to our ASA program, here

This course is designed to help students apply their leadership skills in the school and local community. Working cooperatively, students will identify sustainable ways in which they can give service to others and come up with solutions to help build the community. As part of their course of study, students will reflect on their experiences by way of discussions, reflection journals, and other forms of written expression. They will also express themselves through drama and the arts. The class will be results-based; therefore participants must be involved in providing community service to others.

Middle School Service Learning Club

AHope for Children is an orphanage for HIV positive Ethiopian children. The students of the ICS Middle School Service Learning Club visit AHope on Monday afternoons to read books to the resident children. We l travel via school transportation. You can read more about AHope on their website, here