WABC’s Emmy Award-winning annual series Protect Our Children featured the outstanding college access work of our Brooklyn Collaborative school in Brooklyn. This was the third time in five years that our schools have been featured on the series.
WABC’s Emmy Award-winning annual series Protect Our Children featured the outstanding college access work of our Brooklyn Collaborative school in Brooklyn. This was the third time in five years that our schools have been featured on the series.
Physics teacher Abbie Sewall of our MELS school in Queens co-authored this piece on student assessment, which originally appeared in Education Week’s Classroom Q&A with Larry Ferlazzo.
In this article on the politics of progressive schools – and how few are public and accessible to all – journalist Nikhil Goyal of The Nation names our James Baldwin School as a model public progressive high school.
College counselor Joshua Steckel of our Brooklyn Collaborative school presents the numerous hurdles that our college application process places before first-generation and low-income students – and argues for removing or simplifying them.
Hillary Mills, Academic Dean and Instructional Coach at our school MELS, blogs in EdWeek about the connection between deep inquiry and deeper learning.
DNAinfo visited with sixth graders from our West End Secondary School, who have turned the City into a classroom with their Down the Drain learning expedition, which explores the many ways that citizens and government are polluting the Hudson – as well as ways of reversing negative human impact.
NYC Outward Bound Schools President Richard Stopol penned this letter to the editor of the New York Times, in response to the article “Testing for Joy and Grit? Schools Nationwide Push to Measure Students’ Emotional Skills.”
On Wednesday, juniors at 92 New York City high schools–including Leaders High School–will pick up their pencils, open their test booklets and take the SAT, with no fee and during regular school hours, the first step in a plan to give the test next year in all 438 city high schools, which the de Blasio administration hopes will help make college more accessible for thousands of students.
How can principals and our education system best support teachers? Principal David O’Hara of our Leaders High School talks about the power of collaboration, teacher empowerment, shared leadership and happy hours in his WNYC op-ed.
