About PS 9About PS 9
Last Updated on Saturday, 12 November 2011 00:04
PS 9 strives to fulfill its stated mission, “Every child at PS 9 will succeed!” by creating and maintaining a team environment in which staff, administration and parents work with each child to meet exceptionally high academic standards.
We are committed to the practices of both constructivism and the workshop model. These practices make it possible to enrich and differentiate instruction, thus providing individual students the opportunity to extend and deepen his/her understanding in each unit of study. Our parents support our work in this area by providing the funding which allows us to have an assistant teacher in every classroom. This significantly reduces the student/teacher ratio in our classrooms. Assistant teachers work closely with teachers in both remediation and enrichment activities.
- Student population approximately 600
- Strong commitment to professional development of teachers
- Assistant teachers in all classrooms (funded entirely by PA)
- All teachers are required to obtain dual certification
- School-based option hiring model
- World Language/Spanish Program
- Cross-curricular arts integration program
- Chess instruction for grades K-2
- Library with Internet access and Learning Leader parent volunteers
- Multiple computers in all classrooms
- Values instruction and conflict resolution program
- Enriching afterschool program
- Free breakfast for all students
- Designated kindergarten play yard (a new Kindergarten playground was installed September, 2009)
- Involved and dedicated PA
- Parent Coordinator
- Full-Time Nurse
- Guidance Counselor
- Social Worker
- Reading Recovery teacher
- Literacy and Math coaches
- ESL teacher
- Special Education/SETSS support
- Instructional Evaluation Team
- Museum of Modern Art
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- New York City Ballet
- Carnegie Hall
- Parent-as-Partner Program
- Learning Leaders Program
- Center for Arts Education