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"Overview: The 3 R's TEP is designed and structured around the belief that teachers are the key personnel in achieving educational success for its students. In singling out teacher quality as the essential lever in educational reform-as opposed to other reforms such as class size reduction or pre-packaged curricular models-TEP builds on an extensive body of research that shows that "teacher quality is the most important educational input predicting student achievement." [i] The effects of highly-effective teachers are profound for students at all ability levels, but they are particularly striking for low-achieving students. Studies demonstrate that, when learning from the most effective teachers, high achieving students improve by 25 percentile points (as compared to a 2 point gain with the least effective teachers), while low achieving students improve by more than 50 percentile points (as compared to a 14 point gain with the least effective teachers). [ii]"

As an organization, Communities for Learning reflects the diversity that is key to its work: Governed by a board of directors whose values, interests and roles provide various educational perspectives that are invaluable in decision and policy making, the organization is further supported by an advisory council with varying skills and points of view, as well as by an experienced, thoughtful and committed staff.

"he vision of ISB's 21st century literacy curriculum seeks to enable and complement the transportable gifts of intellectual development, meta-cognition and cross-cultural understanding. This achieved through the authentic application and use of 21st century literacy skills embedded throughout core curriculum. Each aspect of the 21st century vision for our learners supports these transportable gifts, through our definition of the 21st Century Learner"