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Teaching the Will-to-Be Excellent

At IS 162 our purpose is to “Teach the Will to be Excellent” by employing our students’ minds to explore and question the world around them in innovative ways. In all of our classrooms, students learn the skills to make sense of the world around them, to collaborate, communicate and create beyond the four walls of the traditional classroom.  As empowered critical thinkers, students have a newfound confidence that they can DO and BE anything they want. Through the use of various blended learning approaches, students are exposed to skills that allow them to explore continuously their surroundings and encourage them to become confident future leaders with a voice and mind of their own. Learning is innovative, impactful and intrinsically meaningful to our students as they engage in cross-curricular thematic units with a focus on social justice issues and environmental studies.