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Artavist

Each week, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth graders learned about how various art forms can be used as a form of activism. In the beginning, students learned about the Read More >>

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Systemic Racism in Syracuse: Education

New School students, grades 4 – 8, were assigned to find the answer to a number of questions teachers posed relating to Education, Syracuse’s Police Department, Lead Poisoning, Housing and Health. Read More >>

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Slave Trade

After the social injustice occurrences this past summer, The New School took it upon themselves to educate our students on the history to gain a better understanding of what is Read More >>

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Slave Trade

After the social injustice occurrences this past summer, The New School took it upon itself to educate its students on the history of social injustice in order to gain a Read More >>

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Systemic Racism

Our children, our students, live in a world that has developed all kinds of media and ways to transmit information, disinformation, ideas, and images.  They hear the media, adults, other Read More >>

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Famous Paintings Reimagined

Many of our students went over and beyond our expectations for this fascinating assignment where they had to identify a famous painting and reimagine it, take a fresh look, and Read More >>

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Local Government 2020

This unit began soon after we switched to distance learning and we had to adjust and modify the curriculum accordingly. Instead of taking the students to visit the three branches Read More >>

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Sound

Questions guided our unit:  How do things make sound? How does sound travel through liquids, solids and gases? What determines the pitch of a sound? How is sound measured and Read More >>

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Cursive Refresh

This fall, students in grades 4-8 participated in a cursive class that reviewed (and sometimes retaught) all upper and lower case letters of the alphabet.  There was much discussion and Read More >>