IST was founded in 2003 by Riche Holmes Grant, Esq., an Ivy League-educated attorney who has dedicated her professional career to building academic environments that motivate and challenge students to resist the status quo. Under Riche’s direction, IST has grown to become a multi-dimensional educational services authority sought after by parents and organizations for its novel approach to learning and progressive vision for education. IST is headquartered in Largo, MD, inside the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
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At its inception, IST was created to prepare students for the SAT. Our goal was to offer an interactive, results-based course and original curriculum designed to help students master the SAT by getting them excited about the material. Though some would consider such a task to be an impossible feat, to us, it became the reason we loved coming to work. The result was a well-balanced mix of content and test-taking strategies that had a broad appeal to different learning styles and enough time built in to address questions without leaving any student feeling lost.
Before long, parents began asking for more than just SAT prep, and we gladly obliged. In 2004, IST expanded its offerings to include private tutoring in all academic subjects, test prep for additional exams, summer enrichment and comprehensive college planning.
In 2005, IST became an approved provider of Supplemental Educational Services (SES) in Maryland through the federal No Child Left Behind Act. As an SES Provider, IST launched the “Brilliant BrainGain” inquiry-based, cooperative learning model for tutoring designed to challenge students at “failing” schools to excel beyond the borders of the traditional classroom limitations.
In 2008, IST expanded its services to include custom academic program and curriculum design for other organizations and educational entities. Additionally, IST began offering training, professional development and test prep to adults.
In 2009, IST established affiliate offices in Atlanta, Los Angeles and London to extend its national and global reaches.
In 2011, IST founded its non-profit subsidiary, Generation Ed (GenEd) to equip parents of students in grades K-12 with the tools needed to become fully interactive participants in the education of their children.
Throughout the years, IST has partnered with non-profit organizations, schools, businesses and governmental entities to bring IST courses and programs to their respective facilities. We are also very much involved in our communities and devote significant pro bono resources each year to provide services to traditionally under-served populations.
In 2018, IST began providing services exclusively to organizational clients to more efficiently meet the growing demand for its services.
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