Students, families, educators, school staff, and community members can appoint teachers and counselors by visiting the Big Apple Awards website ( https://www.schools.nyc.gov/about-us / vision-and-mission / big-apple-awards ) today through January 10, 2021. Nominees must be current, full-time public school teachers or college counselors at a district school, charter school, or education center New York City early childhood programs that demonstrate exceptional success in the classroom. For more information, visit the DOE's Morning Bell Blog
Vision: “Educate, Excel, Empower” embodies our school’s shared values and beliefs, through which we envision our school’s commitment to the sustainable development of collaborative, innovative, bilingual, bi-literate, and multi-cultural citizens in our local and global community.
Instructional Focus: All students will effectively use text-based evidence to support claims, assertions, opinions, and arguments in reading, writing, and discussion, across all content areas, in all classes.
Mission: To create and sustain a hands-on, minds-on thematic-based environment that promotes and strengthens students’ collaborative and creative problem-solving skills; students’ critical thinking skills; and students’ social-emotional development and well-being.