Institute of Community Leaders

About ICL

The Institute of Community Leaders was developed with -- and in response to -- community members concerned about kids falling through the cracks at Logan. The design team, which included parents, teachers, administrators and district personnel, spent two years developing our program before our first cohort began in the 2011-2012 school year.

Our Goals

ICL students will graduate from Logan prepared (both with the right courses and grades, and the right skills) to apply to a four-year college or university after high school.
ICL students will be leaders who understand who they are, who their community is, and who they are as a leader within their community.

News & Announcements

ICL Celebration of Graduates Congratulations to the Class of 2025!
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ICL GRADUATION PHOTOS
ICL GRADUATION PROGRAM
ICL SENIOR SLIDE PRESENTATION

ENROLLMENT IS STILL OPEN FOR

THE 2025-2026 SCHOOL YEAR!

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2025 ICL Family Information Night for 8th Grade Families

See our slideshow (with links) here

College Acceptances:

ICL Graduates from the class of 2025 were accepted to the following colleges and programs:

California State University, Dominguez Hills
California State University, East Bay
California State University, San Marcos
Chabot College
Cogswell Polytechnical College
College of San Mateo
DeAnza College
Dominican University of California

Ohlone College
San Jose State University
University of Aurora
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Riverside
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Western Oregon University

ICL Graduates from the class of 2024 were accepted to the following colleges and programs:

American River College
California Baptist University
California State University, East Bay
California State University, Fresno
California State University, Northridge
Chabot Community College
Courtland Thompkins
Holy Names University
Jackson State University
New York Film Academy

Ohlone College
San Francisco State University
San Jose State University
United States Marine Corps
University of California, Davis
University of California, Merced
University of California, Riverside
University of the Pacific

2023 ICL graduates were accepted into the following colleges:

Dominican University of California
Notre Dame de Namur
SAE Ex'pressions College for New Media
Stanford University
Northern Arizona University
University of California, Irvine
University of California, Merced
University of California, Riverside
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of Hawaii, Manoa
California State University, Bakersfield
California State University, Fresno

California State University, Hayward
Sacramento State University

San Francisco State University
San Jose State University
Sonoma State University
Chabot Community College
College of San Mateo
Las Positas College
Leeward Community College
Ohlone College
Sacramento City College
Santa Monica College

ICL Valedictorian addressing the James Logan High School Class of 2018!

The Institute of Community Leaders is a college-preparatory program inside of James Logan High School; it's a school-within-a-school. The students in this program are Logan students who plan on graduating with all the pre-requisites needed for a four-year college or university. This program was designed with a prescribed course sequence that ensures students have every opportunity to meet and exceed the requirements for college. In order to reach that goal students receive both rigorous academic coursework and a variety of support.

Although this program opened in Fall 2011 with our first cohort of 9th graders, the planning and work for this new program began in Fall of 2008. It has been a long journey! Founding and participating team members include (in alphabetical order): Dorothy Allen, Abhi Brar, Erin Cross, Alicia Elbert, Teri Lampi, Jessica Lange, David Loyd, Amy McNamara, Stephanie Papas, Rev. Rick Perry (COR), Ed Raco, Jodie Schwartzfarb, Meghan Sobcienski, and Karen Yifru.

Our work has been influenced by many schools and people! Joe Feldman, former Director of Secondary Education in New Haven Unified helped us learn what small successful schools look like around the country and provided us with lots of data and professional reading. Dr. Olivia Lynch, former Director of Professional Learning Systems for the School Redesign Network at Stanford University's School of Education worked with us for three years to help us focus on the important pieces, and guided us in creating a structure that would work. Also, Enid Lee a nationally acclaimed Educational Consultant on equity and literacy worked with the planning team do establish our collective instructional philosophy and strategies. We also conducted many site visits to other successful small schools in the Bay Area, and we've borrowed some "best practices" from each of them and made them our own. We've learned from Oceana High School, Summit Preparatory, Irvington High School, Conley-Carabello High School, and Hillsdale. We have collaborated formally and informally with a multitude of other schools and educational leaders in designing this program, and we continue to reach out, collaborate and learn from other professionals as much as we can.

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