In early spring semester of 2013, our Garrett High School administration invited a few teachers to visit Kettle Moraine, Wisconsin.  While there, until 1:00am every night, and during the whole car ride back (in which we were stuck in a flood in Chicago), we would not stop talking.  We were so inspired by the students and what they were allowed to do, we just could not stop talking about the experience and what we could do for our kids.

We were four teachers on a mission - a personalized learning mission - in which we believed that learning could take place anywhere and that students are the center of the public high school learning experience.  For the rest of the school year, we did what we could in each of our classrooms, but decided that we were going to come together to create a personalized learning program for the students of GHS and that program was going to start that fall.  

In August, 2013 we started what would later be known as the ICC, Interdisciplinary Creative Collaborative.  It's been one wild ride.  And while there have been ups and we have certainly had our share of downs, we still firmly believe that learning can take place anywhere and that students are the center of the public high school learning experience.