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- Each cluster (grades K-3, 4-6, 7-8, high school) serves as an educational village in which teachers loop
for two years.
- Frequent in-class arts residencies: TADA, Young Playwrights, Queens College Jazz Program, Metropolitan
Opera Guild, and others.
- The “Built Environment” is a focus of study; early childhood classes study architecture and design, middle
school students study architecture and engineering through the Salvadori Middle School Program.
- Middle School Restructuring Program extends the school day for grades 7-8 and provides small group
literacy and math skills classes, advisories, and electives.
- College Bound programs start with the 7th and 8th grades (CUNY Middle Grades Initiative) and continues
through all high school grades. The College Bound advisors follow up with alumni.
- Pre-Teaching Academy for students interested in the teaching profession.
- Trips: 4th-6th grade attend Nature’s Classroom for 5 days, 7th & 8th graders travel to Philadelphia and
Lancaster, PA for 3 day history tour or the Poconos for Nature Camp.
- Partnerships with Queens College Department of Secondary Education and Youth Services (student
teachers), LaGuardia Community College Cooperative Education Internships Program (early childhood
interns), Five Towns College (music and technology interns), and NovaNET (on-line courses)
- Excellent staff retention
- Early childhood screening and intervention program targeting learning issues
- Many teachers trained with All Kinds of Minds Institute
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