School Awards for IVA High

  • Voted #1 Charter School in Long Beach for 7 years
  • 2022 School Counselor of the Year in LA County
  • 2020 Most Diverse Public High Schools in LA County
  • Niche: Most Diverse School (2020, 2021, 2022, 2025) – Top 10% diverse student body in the state and county
  • #2 Top School (or district) to work for in LA County
  • 2019 Best of Long Beach – School

IVA High Student Achievement

  • 7 consecutive years of growth above the national average on all subjects (NWEA: Reading, Writing, Math)
  • 45% of student body enrolled in at least one college class, with a 93% course pass rate
  • 96% of our students get into 1 of their 2 top college choices
  • Long Beach’s only National Merit Semifinalist 2019

Grants

  • $3.5 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation
  • Golden State Pathway Program (GSPP)
  • College and Career Access Pathway (CCAP)
  • Port of Long Beach
  • PCSGP grant of $350,000
  • $75,000 for Anti Bias Education (1 of 5 schools in CA)
  • PBL Leadership Academy – HTH grant for school-wide implementation
  • $200,000 Community Schools grant

Research, University, and Foundation Partnerships

  • LBCC – College and Career Access Pathway (CCAP) Partnership
  • USC University of Southern California – Three year neurological study on teaching for deeper learning
  • Boston University – Two-year study of student intellectual character growth
  • John Templeton Foundation – $3.5 million dollar grant to develop character program
  • Harvard University – Project Zero partners with our IV institute and PD program
  • Long Beach City College – Long Beach College Promise Partner
  • Loyola Marymount University – Professor Co-Founded Middle and High Schools
  • UC Irvine – Implementation of Intellectual Virtue Model
  • Calvin University – Designed Intellectual Virtue Growth Database

Conference Features

  • March 2023: CCSA Conference, “Restorative Practices: Strengthening Your School Community Through Humility and Belonging”
  • Jan. 2020: Boston University, “What Successful Programs Look Like”
  • Sep. 2019: University of California, Irvine, “The Intellectual Virtues Academy of Long Beach”
  • Aug. 2019: Los Angeles County Office of Education, “Promising Practices – Intellectual Humility at Intellectual Virtues Academy” Meeting
  • Jun. 2019: Intellectual Virtues Institute (June 2019)
  • Mar. 2019: Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society, “Democratic Aims and the Development of Intellectual Virtues, ” 2019 Annual Conference
  • Oct. 2018: Society for Research in Child Development, “Why Intellectual Humility as a Focus for Character Development”
  • Sep. 2018: Baylor University, “Forming Character in the Classroom”

Publications

Several books and articles across multiple disciplines (e.g. education, psychology, and philosophy) shed important light on the practice of educating for intellectual virtues. (For additional resources on the theoretical dimensions of intellectual character education, see here.)