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On April 19, Liya Zhou, a world languages teacher at Boynton and DeWitt middle schools, participated in the 15th United Nations’ Chinese Language Day Celebration , Learn from Chin...

On April 30, district leadership and the ICSD Board of Education recognized the extraordinary achievements of students and staff at the second Commendation Ceremony of the 2023-20...

On March 27 and 28, the Ithaca City School District (ICSD) welcomed Connie Morrison, author of I Got the Rhythm , into classrooms across the district to engage with our youngest ...

Check out the April 2024 issue of the e-Insider ! In this issue, you'll find articles about a student-led protest march and assembly at Belle Sherman, the Ithaca Robotics Tea...

Nearly 60 first graders at Belle Sherman Elementary recently staged a peaceful protest march and led an anti-racist assembly with the school’s students, families, staff, and admin...

Check out the March 2024 issue of the e-Insider ! In this issue, you'll find articles on student-led Lunar New Year celebrations, notable education leaders visiting DeWitt an...

Written by Liya Zhou, Foreign Language Teacher at Boynton Middle School In mid-February, the Lunar New Year —celebrated as the Year of the Dragon—commenced, marking a momentous...

On March 7, the Ithaca City School District (ICSD) welcomed Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) , and Melinda Person, President of New York St...

Check out the February 2024 issue of the e-Insider ! In this issue, you'll find a new edition of "Sitting Down with Dr. Brown" featuring IHS 9th grader Gracie Lomax and artic...

A recent article posted online has left members of our community with a false impression of how and why the school district plans to invest in an integrated clock system for the e...

In pursuit of a more effective and inclusive approach to English Language Arts (ELA) instruction, second-grade teachers Hannah Zimar and Alex Graves at Fall Creek Elementary Schoo...

By Carly Hare, PR Officer, Code Red Robotics | ch20@icsd.k12.ny.us Ithaca High School’s FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) robotics team C...

Check out the January 2024 issue of the e-Insider ! In this issue, you'll find articles about Ithaca High School being recognized as a STEM School of Excellence, DeWitt's Farm-...

At Cayuga Heights Elementary School (CHES), several fifth-grade students gather during their lunchtime to do their part in making their school a better place to learn. While ev...

Ithaca High School’s Technology Education and Engineering Department has been named a 2024 STEM School of Excellence by the International Technology and Engineering Educators Asso...

“If the land that the U.S. agricultural system is built on is Indigenous American and the hands that built the system are African - where is the African and Native American repre...

Check out the December 2023 issue of the e-Insider ! In this issue, you'll find articles on Ithaca High School’s Creatives of Color, who were commissioned by Cornell to create ...

On December 12, district leadership and the ICSD Board of Education recognized the extraordinary achievements of students and staff at the first Commendation Ceremony of the 2023-...

“ Math is one of those things that people decide in elementary school that either they’re good at it or they’re bad at it.” This common misconception about math class ...

On November 28, 2023, the Ithaca City School District (ICSD) Board of Education unanimously voted to permit the flying of the Haudenosaunee (Hood-en-no-sho-nee) flag on one of the...