The American Student Achievement Institute is a nonprofit organization focused on raising educational achievement for all students and closing achievement gaps between rural, minority and low-income students and their more advantaged peers.

Mission

The mission of the Indiana Student Achievement Institute is to raise student achievement and close achievement gaps, enabling all students to become successful learners, responsible citizens, and productive workers in a global economy. With this mission in mind, InSAI provides schools and communities with technical assistance for school improvement to promote a culture of high expectations, sound student guidance, effective teaching, and a supportive learning environment.

Guiding Convictions

• Every child deserves to be surrounded by a culture of high expectations
• Every child deserves a rich array of options for the future
• Every child deserves rich educational and career guidance in order to define the pathways to the future options he or she chooses
• Every child deserves a rigorous curriculum and rich teaching within a supportive environment to realize the options and pathways developed through the guidance process

Historical Perspective

In the late 1980’s MDC, Inc.* published Who’s Looking Out for At-Risk Youth? and America’s Shame, America’s Hope: Twelve Million Youth at Risk, two reports that chronicled the state and national neglect of at-risk youth and warned of the economic risks of continued neglect. America’s Shame, America’s Hope led to a comprehensive, nationwide school-reform crusade in 1991 under the umbrella of Realizing America’s Hope, a series of major PBS programs, hosted and spearheaded by Bill Moyers, which was supplemented with print materials and community outreach efforts designed to help the nation respond to the challenges facing at-risk youth... (continued)

Vision-to-Action School Improvement Process

The Vision-to-Action systemic change process brings about whole school reform, including the transformation of student guidance, teaching, the learning environment, and student expectations. Using the Vision-to-Action process, schools and communities work together to implement the cultural changes needed to raise student achievement... (continued)

• Vision-to-Action Steps
• Vision-to-Action Diagram

Board of Directors

David Dodson
President
MDC, Inc.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Sue Reynolds
Executive Director
American Student Achievement Institute
Columbus, Indiana

Christine Tell
National Educational Policy Consultant
Achieve, Inc.

Board Secretary / Treasurer
Bruce Ricklin
Director of Operations, Finance, Human Resources
American Student Achievement Institute
Columbus, Indiana

 

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InSAI Panel Discussion - Indiana Principal Leadership Academy