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ITI NEWS
The ICAN School Project
By Ryan Cardwell, Director of Ivy Training Institute
F
or the past four years, Ivy Schools have been
engaged in an informal collaboration with
Riverside School in Ahmedabad, India. We have
participated in the Design for Change movement,
sponsored and hosted the DFC Global Conference in
December 2016 and had an ongoing teacher exchange
program. Riverside is a school that has applied Howard
Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences and design
thinking to create a school like none other.
Riverside’s visionary founder, Ms. Kiran Sethi has
crafted a curriculum and an approach to learning that
balances doing ‘good’ and doing ‘well’ that produces
graduates that are not only academic achievers but
also have a commitment to making the world a better
place than we found it. For these reasons in August of
2018, Ivy Education Group entered into a formal 3 year
collaboration which seeks to apply the best practices of
Riverside School in Ivy Schools.
Daystar Academy Spring/Summer Edition 2019
The first stage of this project is well underway. We seek
to make Ivy Academy, Sanlitun campus into our ICAN
Beacon school and then use it as a base from which to
support the growth and development of all of schools
in China.
In October of 2018, two staff members from Ivy Academy,
Sheena Lv and Allie Cockburn spent a week at Riverside
studying some key processes and then brought them
back to Ivy Academy for application here. After that, in
February of 2019, Campus Director Victoria Li, Daystar
Elementary School Principal Kari King and myself also
travelled to Ahmedabad to visit Riverside. In early April
we had another group of three teachers travelling to
India, and a team of educators from Riverside will be
coming to Beijing to provide training and close support.