Welcome
We are educating students today for jobs that do not exist yet, to use technologies that have not been invented yet, to address problems that we are not aware of yet. (Karl Fisch)
The 21st Century demands a more sophisticated range of skills from our students than ever before. Our world has become globalized and interconnected. The urgent challenges facing our planet cannot be solved by one country acting alone. In this interconnected world, critical-thinking, creativity, communication, risk taking, collaboration, intercultural awareness, international-mindedness and life-long learning are all essential skills and attitudes.
At the International School of Indiana, we share your wish to prepare your children for the future that we cannot imagine, and to give them the foundation and attitude to thrive in a changing world. An education that combines internationally respected academic standards with a truly international outlook.
ISI provides an outstanding education that empowers children to:
- Fulfill their true academic potential across the full range of school subjects
- Match the achievement of good students globally
- Become critical thinkers, able to understand concepts in depth
- Develop the personal skills and habits to become independent, lifelong learners
- Study science and mathematics for a changing world
- Communicate fluently and confidently in other languages
- Benefit from opportunities in athletics, performing arts and other extracurricular activities
- Participate in overseas exchanges
- Develop positive values and sound principles as global citizens
- Gain admission to the world's best universities
ISI is the
only school in the Midwest where all of its high school students participate in the full International Baccalaureate Diploma program. As a candidate school for the Primary Years and Middle Years programs of the IB, ISI will provide a seamless continuum of IB programs for all of our students in Pre-K - 12.
Thank you for considering giving your children the one gift that will carry them successfully through the rest of their lives.
Kind Regards,
David Garner
About David Garner, Head of School
A UK national with a French wife, David Garner has worked in public and private education in ten different countries. He is highly experienced in international schools and International Baccalaureate programs, and has a keen professional interest in second language acquisition and bilingualism. He brings a distinguished set of educational leadership skills to ISI as the Head of School. Before coming to ISI, he was Head of School at the International Secondary School of Eindhoven (ISSE) serving the hi-tech community in the major research and development hub of the Netherlands. Under his leadership the ISSE became an authorized IB Middle Years Programme school in addition to its successful IB Diploma program, and gained accreditation from the Council of International Schools and the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.
Prior to his work at ISSE, he was Head of the Upper School at the British International School of Prague in the Czech Republic. His experience includes teaching English as a Second Language at the Vienna International School in Austria, and serving as a Regional Project Director with the Centre for British Teachers Ltd. in Morocco, supervising the work of British teachers placed in Moroccan secondary schools to teach English.
He has also taught English in the German state system, and taught German in the UK state system. He began his career in teaching as a young volunteer for the UK’s Voluntary Service Overseas organization, when he was posted to the Solomon Islands in the southwest Pacific to teach elementary school children for one year. A combined honors graduate in German and Russian studies from Birmingham University (UK), he studied for one year at the Free University of West Berlin, and also taught at a teacher training institute for one year in Georgia, in the former Soviet Union. He has a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from Exeter University, an MBA in Educational Management from the University of Leicester and an MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of Reading. He has been a member and a leader of the Council of International School’s accreditation teams accrediting international schools in Germany, El Salvador and Colombia. Under hobbies he lists snowboarding and playing the guitar.