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ABOUT SWIM FLOAT GROW ISR
Our Mission
Our mission is to protect children and empower families through life-saving water-safety skills and education. Drowning is the leading cause of accidental death for children ages 1–4 in the United States, making layers of protection around the water critically important.
ISR Self-Rescue™ lessons provide individualized, one-on-one instruction for children beginning as early as 6 months old. Built on decades of research and experience, ISR instruction is tailored to each child’s age, developmental stage, abilities, and individual progress. Children learn developmentally appropriate skills designed to help them respond if they unexpectedly find themselves in the water.
ISR’s mission extends beyond the skills taught in the pool. Active adult supervision, appropriate barriers, alarms, CPR knowledge, properly fitted life jackets when needed, and parent education all play an important role in drowning prevention. ISR Self-Rescue™ skills are one layer of this multilayered approach and never replace active adult supervision.
By combining individualized instruction with parent education and strong water-safety practices, ISR works to give children critical skills while empowering families with the knowledge and tools to help keep them safer in and around the water.
About Your Instructor
My name is Brittany Tetreault, and I am your Certified Infant Swimming Resource (ISR) Instructor. I’m also a mom to one little girl who has been the inspiration behind my passion for water safety. From the very beginning, we knew that teaching her how to be safe around water was essential.
I began my journey with ISR as a parent, enrolling my daughter in lessons at just 9 months old — and she continues them to this day. During the last couple years as a stay-at-home mom, I had the privilege of watching her learn true, life-saving skills. Seeing her confidence grow in the water was incredible, and it’s what made me fall in love with the ISR process.
That experience motivated me to become an instructor myself so I could bring ISR Self-Rescue™ skills to more families. As an ISR parent first, I understand what it’s like to trust someone else with your child in the water, and I know how meaningful it is to watch those skills develop.
Your child’s safety is always my top priority. I treat every student with the same care and attention I give my own daughter. My goal is to provide individualized instruction in a safe, supportive environment where children can develop essential water-safety skills at their own pace.
I proudly serve families throughout Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and the Nashua, New Hampshire area. I’m honored to be part of your child’s water-safety journey, and if you have any questions or want to learn more, I’m here to help!
Our Program
ISR Self-Rescue™ lessons provide individualized, one-on-one instruction designed around each child’s age, developmental stage, abilities, and individual progress. With just your child and the instructor in the water, every lesson can be tailored to meet your child where they are and build skills at a pace appropriate for them.
Lessons are short, focused, and consistent, allowing children to develop skills through repetition while minimizing fatigue. Depending on their age and developmental abilities, children learn to independently roll back to float or progress to the swim-float-swim sequence, giving them developmentally appropriate skills they can use if they unexpectedly find themselves in the water.
What sets ISR apart is not only what children learn, but how they learn it. Safety is always the top priority, and instruction focuses on developing competence before confidence. As children become more capable and independent in the water, confidence can grow naturally alongside their skills.
ISR Self-Rescue™ lessons provide a strong foundation for safer, more confident experiences in and around the water while remaining one important part of a multilayered approach to water safety.