About Ivy

Excellence, Service and a Tailored Education

Ivy is an inquiry-based, learner-centric school that aims to develop reflective, capable and caring learners who are prepared to meet the needs of a changing global landscape.

About Ivy

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From the day we began our journey, we have placed personalised education at the forefront of the local educational landscape. Founded in 2018, Ivy is the brainchild of Aliya Hashim and Ali Anwerzada, a personal project and vision of two individuals who have felt passionately about education for more than a decade. When the school first opened its doors in 2018, we had just 24 students, and in four years we have grown to a well-selected 250. Initially, the Ivy campus was located in a small space. As we grew, we have now expanded to a larger campus building, with a focus on having a vibrant learning environment that is built around student interests, is modular and progressive in thought, and offers multiple opportunities to collaborate, engage and be active.
Student to faculty ratio
8:1
average class size
15
Undergraduate students
2080
Graduate students
512
Domestic students of color
43%
International students
34%
Retention Rate
95%
Graduation Rate
89%

School Leadership

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Ali Anwerzada

Co-founder and Managing Director
Ali Anwerzada is the Co-founder and Managing Director at The Ivy School, as well as the Founder and Director of Cedar College. Ali has a keen interest in the impact of quality early childhood education on economic outcomes, particularly early childhood interventions that influence educational attainment and employment in later life. With Ivy, he envisions bringing high-quality, research-based teaching practices to early learning settings that contribute to healthy child development today and a stronger future tomorrow.

Ali possesses a Masters in Public Policy from the University of Chicago. Earlier, he received his MBA and Undergraduate degree from the Lahore University of Management Sciences
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Aliya Hashim

Co-founder and Head of School
Aliya Hashim is the Co-founder and Head of School for Ivy since its inception in 2018. Prior to founding Ivy, Aliya has experience working in the low-income education sector of Karachi, where she rolled out multiple grassroots reading programs in over 30 slum schools. She led dramatic improvements in reading outcomes for students of all age groups, and increased retention of girl students in schools through counselling and awareness programs.

Aliya currently sits on the board of Bright Day Big Blocks - a global collective of play advocates from around the world. She holds a Masters in Business Administration from the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) Karachi, and a Masters in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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Mission and Vision

Ivy has made a name in the local and international educational landscape for its culture of excellence, commitment to innovation, and an extraordinary focus on nurturing young minds and hearts. We instil in our students the power of change-making and the committment to deep learning and exploration. Ivy students grow up in a community where every student is cared for, advocated for, and every student personalises their learning.

Advisory Group

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Catherine Snow

Professor of Cognition & Education at Harvard

Catherine Snow is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a pioneering expert on language and literacy development in children. Her contributions span age groups with much of her earlier work being centered around childhood literacy and bilingualism, and more recent contributions shaping the field of adolescent literacy.

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Yeap Ban Har

Director of Curriculum at two Singapore schools

Yeap Ban Har is one of the world's leading authorities on Singapore Mathematics. An accomplished and inspirational trainer, Ban Har worked for a decade at the National Institute of Education in Singapore where he taught a range of teacher education courses and was involved in several funded research programs. He has held the role of principal at Marshall Cavendish, is currently Director of Curriculum at two Singapore schools, and sits on the advisory board of several schools in Singapore and Asia. Often called the 'Michael Jordan of Singapore Math,' he has authored many textbooks, and various titles in mathematics education. His latest project is his new mathematics program think! Mathematics which is an exciting new elementary math curriculum and has been launched successfully across the globe.

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Yvonne Liu-Constant

Practitioner Specialist at the Pedagogy of Play

Yvonne Liu-Constant is a Practitioner Specialist at the Pedagogy of Play. She is an early childhood educator who teaches at Boston Teacher Residency and Lesley University, where she was Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education. Yvonne has published research comparing childrearing practices of Chinese Immigrant and European American parents, and translated into English the Taiwanese children’s book Run, Little Hei Hei, Run. Yvonne is passionate about the integration of math, science, and the arts, and she is the founder of Mathful Play, a teacher collaborative that seeks to make math more playful and play more mathful. She is co-author of The Footbook: Steps to Developing Numbersense in Young Children.

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Ivy Timeline

August 2018
The Ivy School opens with 24 students
September 2018
After School clubs are launched
November 2018
First of it’s kind child-directed art event, ‘Meet Matisse’
February 2020
Online Learning program is launched
June 2021
Ivy relocates to Old Clifton campus
August 2021
The Curiosity approach is adopted and put into practice in preschool
September 2021
Ivy partners with Disney for it’s first musical
November 2021
Tehzeeb program is launched at the school
December 2021
Parent Association is formed
August 2022
Ivy enters into a partnership with Pedagogy of Play at Harvard Project Zero
September 2022
Global advisory group is formed
October 2022
Ivy becomes a member of the International Schools Association

August 2018

The Ivy School opens with 24 students

November 2018

First of it’s kind child-directed art event, ‘Meet Matisse’

June 2021

Ivy relocates to Old Clifton campus

September 2021

Ivy partners with Disney for it’s first musical

December 2021

Parent Association is formed

September 2022

Global advisory group is formed

August 2018

The Ivy School opens with 24 students

September 2018

After School clubs are launched

November 2018

First of it’s kind child-directed art event, ‘Meet Matisse’

February 2020

Online Learning program is launched

June 2021

Ivy relocates to Old Clifton campus

August 2021

The Curiosity approach is adopted and put into practice in preschool

September 2021

Ivy partners with Disney for it’s first musical

November 2021

Tehzeeb program is launched at the school

December 2021

Parent Association is formed

August 2022

Ivy enters into a partnership with Pedagogy of Play at Harvard Project Zero

September 2022

Global advisory group is formed

October 2022

Ivy becomes a member of the International Schools Association
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