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Corey Mahaney

“Attending The New School gave me the space to explore my creativity in a non-judgmental and open minded environment. I am thankful that I was able to grow up in a small inclusive community of students, as I believe it helped me cultivate the confidence I needed to pursue the path of an artist.” Corey Read More >>

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Tom Boyer, 2000-2005

“My time at The New School helped me to think outside the box and prioritize my schedule effectively.” Tommy attended the New School from 2000-2005, graduated from Charles W. Baker high school in Baldwinsville and SUNY Potsdam. He is currently working as a management trainee for Follett Higher Education Group. #30for30

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Highland Forest Fall 2018

Twice a year, for the past 20+ years, teachers have taken students camping to Highland Forest. These two days in the fall and spring are so important to building community. There is something magical that happens to groups of children when you provide them with the opportunity to play outdoors and engage with each other Read More >>

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Al-Amin Muhammad Mystery Guest

  At The New School we are working on a project called Making the World a Better Place.  It is school wide and year long. Making the World a Better Place began with reading books about people or groups who have contributed to the well being of people and/or the environment.  As we do this Read More >>

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Josh Walsdorf

Let me just start by saying how wonderful the teachers were and very knowledgeable. The New School was an amazing experience for me, it was not like any other typical schools. It was a lot of hands-on which is an amazing learning experience for kids. We got to go on a lot of field trips Read More >>

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Westcott Cultural Fair Parade

It has become a tradition for The New School to take part in the Westcott Street Cultural Fair’s parade. This year all the children made hats and will be marching as animals from one of the seven continents! Children randomly selected a continent, and animal and after much research and discussion, they creatively designed their Read More >>

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The Importance of Playing Outdoors

  At The New School both indoor and outdoor space is considered to be a part of the learning and educational environment.  Both spaces are used for formal and informal learning. ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] As Rusty Keeler, playscapes architect, says we want to provide space and time for “children to discover themselves and Read More >>

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School and Community

As schooling became more the norm, a child’s inclusion and exposure to the wide world was more limited and controlled. However, as Neil Postman in The Disappearance of Childhood says,  “The world of the known and the not yet known is bridged by wonderment….where the child’s world…must seek entry, through their questions…As media merge the Read More >>

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What does it mean to individualize curriculum?

Your child is like no other. At The New School we build our relationship with your child based on the understanding that each child processes their thinking and actions based on prior experiences, unique ways of accessing information and expressing their understandings. Each week we develop an individual plan for your child. This plan, what Read More >>

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The Benefits of a Multi Age School Environment

From birth all of us are social learners (Lev Vygotsky’s Social Learning Theory). It is how we learned to walk and talk. We learned from those who are older by watching, and copying.  The older child learns the importance of nurturing and appreciating the younger child, learning to moderate and modify behaviors, to stay in Read More >>