The ISSL curriculum emphasizes critical and creative thinking, teaching students how to find information, utilize it wisely, and learn from it, rather than content based, which teaches students to memorize.
Students at ISSL benefit from an academic program based on a unique combination of the highly respected Ontario and New Brunswick Canadian curriculums. According to the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), Canada ranks sixths overall in reading, math and science, behind only Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau and Estonia.
The Ontario curriculum (grades K – 10) is an integrated, interactive, sequentially developed system aimed at developing the academic and high order thinking skills that will equip them for success in the junior and senior programs.
The New Brunswick system combines face-to-face teaching with on-line course content and text resources for grades 11 and 12. This method of teaching has proven to be successful for students who need small classes, discussion and guidance, and various, unrestricted teaching styles. Our graduating classes including 2017 have been accepted to universities in the U.S., Canada, Cuba, and the United Kingdom. Total graduate scholarships have topped $400,000 U.S.
In an effort to promote social responsibility, senior students must also provide 40 hours of volunteer community service to graduate.