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Enterprise America Field Trip

This fall students in grades 4-8 got a chance to participate in a WCNY program called Enterprise America.  Students got to run a simulated city for a day. Each student was assigned a job and given tasks on how to complete that job.  Students also had to manage their paychecks, pay health insurance and figure Read More >>

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Bubble Science

This fall, students in grades 6-8 participated in a unit on bubbles.  We started this unit by creating a small and large frame that could help us explore soap solution.  Students were then asked what they would like to know about soap bubbles and what surfaces they would like to test to see if they Read More >>

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Making the World a Better Place

Children need to learn early that individuals can make a difference and shape society with their ideas and actions. All year we have been learning about ways individuals have succeeded in this endeavor. Children have learned that change can be immediate but it can also take a long time. Each week we read books or Read More >>

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Rodin: The Human Experience

Six students expressed an interested in going to view SU’s Rodin: The Human Experience show. The objective of this field trip was to draw the sculptures on display.

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Adam Sudmann, Mystery Guest

Adam Sudan visited The New School on Tuesday, November 20 to share with our students how he is making the world a better place. First Adam shared with our students bowls of unique spices and smells, and he told the stories behind spices and flavorings such as saffron, star anise, cardamom pods, hibiscus petals, rosewater and Read More >>

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Quin Delia

  Years at The New School 2006-2010 How did attending The New School help you in your life? The New School helped me grow as my curiosity grew for learning. I had a solid foundation to continue on and go to high school, graduating with a regents diploma. I enjoyed attending The New School. Thank Read More >>

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Power, Privilege, Persecution, Persistence and Poverty

As the oldest students started to create a annotated time showing the century from 1850 – 1950, they revisited and reviewed last year’s study of the Industrial revolution. Here we learned how inventions fueled a transformation of the US economy. The booming economy brought with it huge social problems in regards to how workers and Read More >>

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Bloom’s Taxonomy

The oldest students were part of a short unit where we explored Bloom’s Taxonomy. What better way to learn about higher and lower level questions than to write your own after studying and discussing each level of Bloom’s framework. Just as responding to higher level questions is more challenging for a reader, they were also Read More >>

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Civil War

This year we are doing a small group class on the Civil War with a small group of middle school students. As a part of this class our goals are: To understand that by the end of the American Revolution, slavery had already become an issue in the new and growing country. Beginning with the Northwest Read More >>

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Daniel Chang

“The New School was an incredible experience for me during my formative years as a child. The amazing opportunities I had to explore the world around me with my peers developed in me a genuine love for learning and a passion to grow – traits I have held onto ever since.”  Daniel was at The New Read More >>