The International Charter School of New York re-imagined their after school offerings with Sawyer

Introduction

The International Charter School is a growing elementary school teaching children from kindergarten through fourth grade. At ICS, success means three things: a comprehensive and coherent curriculum, a strong focus on character, and a student body reflective of their community. After partnering with Sawyer, the International Charter School was able to increase their programming by 600%, with all the teachers managing their own enrollment so the administration can focus on growing the school.

Problem

As a new and growing institution, the administration was extremely busy, so when the question of after school programming came up from parents, they had to outsource it to providers who could pick up the children after the school day ended.

This created a logistical nightmare for parents when it came to picking their children up from multiple different locations, and it became clear that this was a major consideration when busy parents were choosing a school to send their children to. What’s more, the ICS teachers were more than capable of running their own programming, but without a dedicated After School Coordinator, they couldn’t find support in registering students, taking payments, and managing the day-to-day, so only two teachers were offering after school programming on the school’s campus.