Brooklyn Preparatory High School ~ Who We Are
Principal: Noah Lansner
Assistant Principal: Diana Isern
Our mission is to prepare all our students to succeed in a challenging college program. Rather than focus on a particular career or theme, we stress a commitment to the liberal arts and sciences along with project-based instruction and writing across the curriculum. Some important school features that help us implement this mission include:
Principal: Noah Lansner
Assistant Principal: Diana Isern
Our mission is to prepare all our students to succeed in a challenging college program. Rather than focus on a particular career or theme, we stress a commitment to the liberal arts and sciences along with project-based instruction and writing across the curriculum. Some important school features that help us implement this mission include:
- A challenging four year science curriculum integrating biology and chemistry
around themes such as the environment, quest for energy, nutrition and health.
Both active and regents physics are offered for the fourth year.
- A full year of art and technology in the ninth grade which supports students
demonstrating mastery in other classes while learning art techniques and computer
programs to creating projects in a variety of disciplines.
- Student portfolio presentations at the end of each semester bringing together
student projects and writing across the curriculum.
- Opportunities for students to develop self awareness and metacognitive habits of
mind. Examples include the surveys built into the bio-chem program, the project rubrics
based on our five habits of mind, and the self reflection and feedback to peers that
is an integral part of the portfolio presentation process.
- A full-time college advisor devoted to student college and career exploration
beginning with visits to colleges and college fairs in the ninth grade and continuing
through every grade.
- Engaging College Now classes offered at Brooklyn Prep and on university campuses
by specially trained teachers serving as adjunct CUNY professors.
- Advanced Placement classes in English and U.S. history, beginning in the 11th grade
and continuing through the 12th grade.
- Extensive matching of students to outside classes and programs at colleges, arts
institutions and not-for-profits.
- Grade level team leaders who facilitate regularly scheduled meetings of teachers
serving the same students. Much decision-making is delegated to the grade level teams.
Additionally, subject-based departments meet regularly to facilitate continuity and
academic growth in the students across the four years.
- Distributed counseling through advisories in which one teacher has special
responsibility for about 15 students.
- Resource room and Collaborative Team Teaching in Math, English, Science and Social Studies to meet the needs of students with IEPs.
