Like the Diploma Programme before it, the MYP began as an initiative of the International Schools Association (ISA). In the summer of 1980 International School Moshi (as we were then known) hosted an ISA conference in Moshi at which the possibility of developing a curriculum for the middle years of schooling was first discussed and the eventual decision to undertake this task was made by ISA in 1982. It was intended that this curriculum, which became known as the International Schools Association Curriculum (ISAC), would share much of the same philosophy as the Diploma Programme and be suitable as a pre-IBO Diploma course.
