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Taste, Tradition, and Togetherness: Inside IAL’s Most Heartwarming Event

By: Ana Gonzalez, Director of Marketing

At Inwood Academy for Leadership (IAL), our mission is to empower students to be agents of change through community-focused leadership, character development, and college and career readiness. Few experiences activate that vision more profoundly—or memorably—than our annual Roots and Recipes Contest. This year’s event didn’t just bring people together; it created lasting emotional moments that […]

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Where Are They Now: Twanasia Graves, Class of 2022

By: Marketing & Communications Team

We work hard to keep close connections with our alumni, not only so that we can support them along their educational and career journeys, but also because their journeys are one of our greatest inspirations as we continue investing in the lives of future leaders each year. This month, we spoke with Twanasia Graves, who […]

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Student Leadership Day – Caring

By: Mary Hackett, High School Principal

Sometimes school doesn’t make sense to me. Illogical I know, being a High School Principal, but I struggle with the idea of schooling. Curriculum and instruction often focus too heavily on tests and it’s hard for me to always justify education in terms of those high stakes and percentages and scores. It’s not that those […]

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Reflecting on my internship at Inwood Academy

By: Josmel LaFontaine

In between the stairway steps at the high school you see the letters V A L U E S as you enter the building. The word is a part of a sentence “Our values can change the world.” It’s meant to inspire the students as they bustle up the stairway. It’s likely that over time […]

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Artwork in Action

By: Valerie Hoekstra

On Monday, September 19, Frenando Olivencia’s and his eighth grade English students participated in a global Artwork for Action: Refugees and Migrants Summit campaign. They joined World Vision’s International President and Chief Operating Officer Kevin Jenkins in writing messages to the world leaders who attended the United Nations Refugees and Migrants Summit in New York […]

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What I Learned This Summer

By: Denise Canniff

Gabriel is a 10th-grade student at Inwood Academy and he is sharing with us what he learned while working as an intern at the high school this summer. This summer has been great. I’ve had a positive experience and great support at my first summer job, which was very exciting. I learned many things about […]

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