Springboard to Success
ICEI’s Springboard to Success program, designed for grades 1-3, shares the same foundations as It’s Elementary! and builds on ICEI’s unprecedented success pioneering the rapid acquisition of basic reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills.
Springboard to Success addresses disparities in children’s school readiness when they enter first grade. Given the proven impact of our approach, participating schools often continue working with ICEI beyond the program.
How it works
Each elementary school principal is paired with one of ICEI's Principal Mentors – all highly accomplished and experienced former principals. ICEI’s Principal Mentor works closely with the principal to create a vision for the school, develop actionable annual work plans, and support their faculty.
ICEI’s Literacy Coaches join the faculty half-time to work closely with teachers to transform how they plan and teach their classes. They model new instructional methods in the classroom, offer valuable real-time observation, feedback, and co-teaching that build teachers’ skills and confidence.
ICEI teaches principals and teachers to use Medida, a comprehensive online data collection and analysis website developed by ICEI. This enables faculty to continually track the progress of each class and each student and to tailor instruction to meet their needs. Our data-driven approach means that no student gets left behind.
We create optimal learning environments, including in-class libraries of 500-1,000 books, categorized according to reading level. We enrich each classroom with a designated area for intimate frontal instruction in the form of short mini-lessons, with posters that encourage reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
Beyond the classroom setting, we support parents to become full partners in their children’s education and to improve communications and mutual respect between parents and faculty members.
Each year, students nationwide participate in ICEI’s Young Writers Competition , honing their storytelling skills and then celebrating their accomplishments in our annual awards ceremony.
Participating Schools
ICEI currently runs Springboard to Success in the following schools and communities:
- Ofek, B’nei Ayish*
- Efrati, B’nei Ayish*
- Mevo’ot, Be’er Tuvia
- Rona Ramon, Harish
* Schools that have continued with ICEI beyond the Springboard to Success program into additional grades