How you'll know it's working.
We measure growth three times a year and publish it.
NWEA MAP, three times a year. We publish whole-school growth, counting everyone. No child's score is public; yours comes home.
You'll see the work.
The robot, the performance, your child explaining it.
AI is a subject here.
Taught on purpose. Never a shortcut in seminar, lab, or the defense.
We answer to New York.
We register with the state, the district reviews our program, and accreditation starts once we're open.
None of this is new. Putting it in one building is.
Mornings
You don't move on until you've got it.
Mastery before moving on beats the calendar, in over a hundred studies. Struggling students gain most.
Afternoons
Real projects raise real scores.
In randomized trials, long projects beat the usual way on state tests.
Seminar
Writing it down is how it sticks.
Writing about it, and saying it out loud, is how it sticks.
Advisory
Being known changes how hard a student works.
One close teacher relationship is among the strongest predictors of effort, more so with age. Hence one advisor for three years.