Great full week at Brooklyn Collaborative!   Tuesday 4/17 – we had a small staff celebration to recognize the retirement of Chris J, our Master Programmer!   Thurs 4/19 – we hosted our Superintendent Kathy Rehfield-Pelles, her team, the staff of the NYC Outward Bound Schools, and all the network principals and Instructional Guides for … Continue reading →

A packed week at Brooklyn Collaborative!   4/9-11 – We hosted 27 students from Danish school Tornbjerg Gymnasium.  See our larger post here: https://www.smore.com/qdb57   4/10 – Our 7th grade students presented their literary analysis PBATs today in roundtables. The anchor text was the book Monster by Walter Dean Myers. Students explored theme, setting and authors craft … Continue reading →

Students participated in Expeditionary Thursday fieldwork today with their ELA classes!   ELA 9 Students visited various writing workspaces (Mid Manhattan Library Teen Zone, Hunter College, City Tech, Brooklyn College, Teachers College) to participate in scavenger hunts, to interview people on site, and to create brainstorms from their interviews and novels about coming-of-age experiences. They … Continue reading →

Check out our fieldwork adventures around the city today!   ECONOMICS Students in Grade 12 Economics were challenged to see NYC economics in one of three ways: Economics as a civil rights issue, circa 1960, on a gallery tour at The Museum of the City of NY; Economics as a representational issue, 1900-20, via a … Continue reading →

Brooklyn Collaborative & Tornbjerg Gymnasium Over the past seven years, BCS has built a very strong relationship with students and ​staff from Tornbjerg Gymnasium, a progressive high school in Odense, Denmark. This collaboration began in 2012 as an exchange program between the music students, expanded to include students from Big History, and now intersects with … Continue reading →

We had a great week! Our Robosharks are continuing to gear up for our annual competition over spring break (https://www.firstinspires.org/team-event-search/event?id=27887) – please cheer us on April 6-7 at the Armory Track & Field Center at 216 Fort Washington Avenue in Manhattan. 3/21 – Snow Day! 3/22 – We had Upper Grades Math Expeditionary Thursday! Our Lower … Continue reading →

We had a great day of math fieldwork around the city (even after the snowstorm)! Algebra 1: Students learned about data firsthand from different companies (Giphy, New York Times) and collected/analyzed data of their own in the real world (Grand Central Station, Oculus World Trade Center Transit Hub). They learned how data is used and analyzed … Continue reading →

We had a packed evening at our food festival!   On 3/16 in our cafeteria, over 40+ families/students from BCS/BNS contributed dishes representing foods from six different continents. Over 150+ visitors picked up a tasting passport and filled it with stickers after tasting foods from around the world! We had a hummus-making demo/workshop with a … Continue reading →

We had a packed week!   On 3/11, students were treated to a special screening of “A Wrinkle In Time” hosted by former NFL player, UN Woman Global Ambassador, writer and culture consultant Wade Davis, in partnership with award winning actress Gabrielle Union, the Ms. Foundation for Women, HP, Smart Girls and others.   On … Continue reading →