Welcome to our Virtual Project Gallery Walk!

While this challenging school year has been a test of our resilience, the collaboration between our teachers & parents remained stronger than ever, allowing us to provide students with continuity of instruction, despite a year of remote learning. Together, we managed to keep our students engaged and hold true to our school motto: “At Conti we believe we can achieve.”

As you know, Project Based Learning (PBL) has been an important component of our instructional program for many years. Through PBL, our goal is to provide our students with authentic learning experiences that go beyond the textbook. Years of research and our own practice have demonstrated that students learn best and retain knowledge more effectively when they are intellectually engaged in projects that spark their interest, challenge their minds, and call them to action. Students are prompted to reflect on issues or problems that impact their community and for which they can contribute to a solution. PBL helps students develop their critical thinking skills, creativity, and empathy for the plight of others.  Our most notable PBL-STEM project resulted in the concrete water planters that you see in front of our school building. Back in 2016, a conversation, an idea, inspired Conti middle school students to seek a solution to the flooding problem at PS #5. Five years later, this wonderful project is still making news!  Here's a March 12, 2021, article that explains the significantly positive impact that a Conti PBL project had on the surrounding neighborhood: