January 2026 News

Indiana Academy and Inspire Academy Working Together Around Student Success

Thursday, January 15, 2026

Students from the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities and Inspire Academy this semester are coming together through tutoring to accelerate student success for the benefit of both institutions. “Through a conversation with the Executive Director of Inspire Academy, Leslie Draper, in late 2025, it occurred to me that the Indiana Academy and Inspire Academy have several goals in common and that an intentional partnership between our two schools carries the potential of accelerating overall student success,” remarks Dr. Joel Olufowote, Director of Academic Affairs at the Indiana Academy. “We agreed that while Academy students can serve as tutors in strategic curricular areas for Inspire elementary and middle schoolers, Academy students are mutually enriched and better prepared to deliver upon our school mission of pursuing the Common Good during and after their high school years through the intentional immersion into communities like Inspire Academy with similar values and a likeminded institutional vision.”

The first group of Academy tutors consisted of members from the Indiana Academy Student Government and Black Student Union.