SSIS Stories

Sharing strategies with other teachers across the world, our teachers truly live our Core Values.

Around this time each year, seniors across the globe anxiously refresh their inboxes for responses to their university application. And in that sense, this year is no different. 

Determined to make a lasting impact on the world, SSIS High School students achieved what they set out to do.

Here are six simple tips that our principals have put together that will help you support your child while they attend school in our Virtual School environment. 

How do you transition from physical classroom learning to online learning overnight? If you're a teacher at SSIS - seamlessly.

When is the last time you had a chance to meet someone who is friends with a gorilla and has photographed polar bears? For our students, it was just a few weeks ago!

On Saturday, January 18, history was made at SSIS when we became the first school to ever host a VEX Robotics Competition in Vietnam. 

MS students are learning to lead initiatives that will have an impact on our communities. Supporting literacy in local schools is one of those intitatives.

"I wonder why there’s so much paper and tissue in the trash?" Second-grade students have many questions as they are confronted with a week’s worth of waste.

Vo ('20) becomes the first student in Vietnam to ever be published in the prestigious journal, Concord Review.

The “MS Dragons Reading Challenge,” is one of the many creative ways that new MS Librarian, Claire Elam, is encouraging middle schoolers to read more.

What it is like to spend a week away from home, with just your basic needs covered? Mai shares her experience.

Recently awarded at a citywide literature competition, third-grader Hay shares how he began writing, and what inspires him.

Both the Girls' and the Boys' Volleyball teams placed number one in this year's MRISA Volleyball Tournament. What a way to bring the season to an end. Go Dragons! 

Where does our waste actually go and what is our personal impact? Grade 7 students went to Da Phuoc landfill to find out.

Tasked with solving a real-world case study, students from grades 9 and 10 recently became forensic scientists for the day.