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CCP & ISSN Now One Organization
Community Catalyst Partners and its International Studies Schools Network (ISSN) integrate global learning across the curriculum through a unique combination of professional development, globally focused curriculum tools, project-based learning, and authentic assessment. As a professional network of a growing number of preK-12 schools around the United States and internationally, ISSN schools, especially those in primarily socioeconomically disadvantaged urban areas, enjoy higher levels of student engagement and academic achievement.
Community Catalyst Partners Expands Leadership Team
Organization Names Gene Chasin as Founder and President Emeritus, Donnie Turlington as President and CEO,...
ISSN Texas Convening – March 23
ISSN Texas Convening - March 23, 2023 At Houston Academy of International Studies, you’ll also get to experience the...
Operation Smile Teaches ISSN Students About Empathy
One young woman’s journey to receive surgery for a cleft lip has opened the eyes of students participating in the...
Educating for Global Competence: Preparing Our Students to Engage the World (2nd Edition)
Excerpted from the new ASCD published work by Veronica Boix Mansilla and Anthony W. Jackson: It was a decade ago, at...
Starting Local to Go Far – CCP Partners with Future Generations Now
Community Catalyst Partners and Future Generations Now are partnering to bring global competency to life in schools...
Our Why
Developing the gifts and talents of all young people. That’s what we’re about at Community Catalyst Partners. We wake...
The Purpose of School
A recent Sunday Opinion section of the New York Times posed an intriguing question: what’s the purpose of school? ...
Community Catalyst Partners Acquires the International Studies Schools Network
Organization Now Fully Equipped to Develop Talents of Educators and Young People in Communities Across the US and...
Spotlight on ISSN Schools: Hudson Valley Pathways Academy Innovation, Partnership, Success
Upon winning a grant to create one of now 48 P-Tech high schools in New York State, Ulster County BOCES District...
Spotlight on Communities: Beaver County, PA
What does it look like when an entire county comes together to support its young people by giving them the knowledge,...
Taking Action – The Antidote to Fear
In Fall, 2022, a much-revised second edition of the book authored by Veronica Boix Mansilla and me, Educating for...
Spotlight on ISSN Partners: West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District
Measuring What Matters: Updating Report Cards to Assess Global Competence The West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School...
ISSN Alumni Spotlight: Felix Ruano
For Felix Ruano, getting out of his comfort zone is a key to success. He is a 2013 graduate of the Ambassador School...
Creating a Culture of Caring at Fort Vancouver High School
Over 40 years ago, in the classic work School Power, Yale Professor James Comer introduced the idea that to be...
Spotlight on ISSN Schools: Vista Charter Public Schools | The Way of Council
Vista Charter Public Schools, a group of schools serving K-12 students in Los Angeles and Santa Ana, California, have...
Education for a 22nd Century Dr. Anthony Jackson
The greatest threats to our survival are from the oppression and violence stemming from racism and other forms of...
Vaughn Next Century Learning Center: The Little School That Could
Since its inception over 25 years ago, the Vaughn Next Century Learning Center has lived up to its motto of being “The...
Spotlight on ISSN Students: Sophie Webster | Austin (TX) High School
How can students change the world? According to Sophie Webster, a junior in the Academy for Global Studies at Austin...