City as Lab involves four high schools in the borough of Brooklyn. These are our school partners for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Academy of Urban Planning Based in Brooklyn, New York, the Academy of Urban Planning helps students develop and apply leadership skills while achieving academic success. The Academy's urban planning, theme-based curriculum draws students out of the classroom and into their communities to develop skills that will move them toward higher education and professional careers. With New York City as a laboratory, students tap into their innate curiosity for the world around them.
AUP Website Brooklyn Academy of Science and the Environment BASE is a three-campus New York City Public High School that integrates the missions and resources of Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to offer academic excellence and rigor. Our community of staff, families and community partners supports students in becoming critical thinkers, active learners and problem solvers who are scientifically literate, engaged citizens who value and respect the environment.
BASE Website It Takes a Village Academy ITAVA's mission is to prepare students to master advanced academic skills and knowledge so that they will be prepared to achieve in distinguished universities and meaningful careers of choice. ItAVA Website Teachers Preparatory High School We are dedicated to creating an environment that fosters optimism, creativity, critical thinking, and lifelong learning. We will prepare tomorrow's educational leaders by modeling superior instruction in our teaching and by developing social efficacy skills through meaningful interactions with positive adult role models. Through curriculum and instruction that are challenging and rigorous, we will maintain high academic standards that satisfy requirements for the regents diploma and prepare students for higher learning.
Teacher's Prep Website Previous participating Schools:
2007-2008 Academy for Environmental Leadership
2007- 2010 Science, Technology and Research Early College High School at Erasmus STAR Website |
Participating Schools |
Brooklyn College GK-12 'City as Lab' is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant No. DGE-0638718. Any opinions, findings, interpretations, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of its authors and do not represent the views of the National Science Foundation or Brooklyn College.
