Small Learning Communities
Each SLC has its own teachers and students in each community mostly attend classes only within their small learning community. Some classes – e.g. art, music, Spanish culture, Spanish - are "cross-community" meaning that students from different communities attend the same class. Montessori and Emerson were the two biggest communities, having few seniors and an average number of juniors, sophomores, and freshmen, while Freire only had juniors, sophomores and freshmen. But this changed as the class of '07 has seniors for all its communities.
SLCs each have a student government, with the student governments from all communities working together to form the United Student Government (a.k.a. USGO). Each community hosts events of its own, but members of the other student governments help the host carry out the events. Some school-wide events are planned by all student governments in conjunction.there is also the "Gardner Community" which is special education. It is named after Howard Gardner.
On November 28, 2011 currently former dean Mr. Ian Corrado been selected to be assistant principal. Eric Contreras has moved to a higher position and now introducing Mr. Jae Hyun Cho, I.A. principal of Queens High School Of Teaching.
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