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MacKennan Graziano

“Attending the New School helped foster a love of learning that has stuck with me throughout my academic and professional career. It was a truly unique learning experience that encouraged me to engage deeply with my academic work (especially my love of reading), be curious, and express myself. The New School emphasizes self-directed learning, a Read More >>

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Animal Habitat 2

To finish up our Animal Habitat unit each child created a collage of an animal in its habitat. First they had to decide where the horizon line was going to be. Then what time of day they wanted to depict. Some picked night, some sunset, or mid-day. After finishing the sky they worked on the Read More >>

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Story Soup

Many a white page has been known to cause “writer’s block.” At The New School we recently tried something new. During Read Aloud we are reading “Sweep: The story of a girl and her monster” to the older children. Early in the book Nan, the main character. reminisces about happy days. Her  Sweep collects lost Read More >>

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Leah Patriarco

I believe I am the oldest alum of the New School. I attended the New School its very first year and was the oldest of the inaugural class. Just a couple weeks ago, when visiting my family in Syracuse, I passed the original building and my sister (also an alum) and I started recounting stories. Read More >>

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Martin Welych-Flanagan

The education style and encouraging atmosphere of the New School is unique and helps reveal everyone’s potential. Instead of putting people in classes based on arbitrary age denominations, classes were based on our abilities in that specific subject. For example, I was in a simpler English class, but I was in more advanced math and Read More >>

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Shannon Zory

Years at The New School : 2   High School : FM High School College attended: OCC (Music Major) The New School was an awesome place to be able to explore my different creative interests, learn new things, and meet great people. Their approach to learning is very inclusive and varied, on any given day we would be writing creatively, Read More >>

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Open Hand Theater’s The Loneliest Snowflake

Our younger students attended a performance on December 4, of The Loneliest Snowflake at Open Hand Theater. The play was co-written by one of our own students, Amelia. The children loved getting a back stage view of the theater and the craft activity that followed the performance. 

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Clifford Ryan, OG’s Against Gun Violence

Clifford Ryan, who spearheads OG’s Against Gun Violence, was our most recent Mystery Guest for Making the World a Better Place.  His mission is “to take back our community to stop the bloodshed and tears of losing our children to violence & prison.” This amazing man met with our older students to share how he Read More >>

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Ruth Lindemann

The New School fostered in me a love for learning and an appreciation for people from all walks of life. I explored science, math, reading, and humanities alongside kids of all ages and with the guidance of teachers who truly understood the importance of their mentorship. What’s more, I was surrounded by an entire community Read More >>

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We Rise Above the Streets Field Trip

Through our Making the World a Better Place unit, students in grades 4 – 8 got to participate in a morning of service for the organization: We Rise Above the Streets.   At the organization’s office, students helped pack bags of personal hygiene items that would be handed out to homeless and food insecure individuals Read More >>