Our Mission & Vision

Culture 🧭 | Consistency 🔁 | Coherence 🧩

Instructional Focus: High Expectations & Rigorous Instruction

In alignment with the NYCPS Reads, District 27 Foci, and the Next Generation Learning Standards (NGLS), at PS 64Q we are developing strong readers, writers and problem-solvers by ensuring all teachers deliver Explicit Instruction with embedded Checks for Understanding to monitor student learning during every lesson.

Key Action Steps

🟠O – Outcome Oriented Lessons

• Plan lessons intentionally with clear learning targets, success criteria modeled examples, thoughtful questions and a logical sequence of activities/tasks.
• Embed CFUs at key instructional points to monitor progress toward mastery and ensure alignment to goals.
• Use consistent instructional routines to maximize clarity, minimize confusion, and support pacing.

🔵 W – Well-Structured Lessons

• Incorporate Explicit Instruction strategies across all subjects: modeling, guided practice, and independent application.
• Leverage planning time to ensure inclusive resources and materials catering to student needs.
• Ensure pacing allows for lesson closure to revisit key learning and checks for understanding.

🟢 L – Supportive Learning Environments

• Use CFUs to make student thinking visible in a low-stakes, inclusive way that values every voice.
• Create classroom cultures where mistakes are learning opportunities, and all students feel safe to participate.
• Foster strong relationships and establish norms that promote collaboration and respect.

🟣 S – Student-Centered Instruction

• Use CFU data to adjust instruction in real time to reteach, scaffold, or extend based on what students show they need.
• Define parameters for instructional decisions (e.g., reteach if more than 30% of students (10) miss a target).
• Incorporate student voice through discussions, reflections, and opportunities for choice when appropriate.

1. I believe in seeing the potential of children.
   
   
2. I believe that, despite life’s circumstances, every child can learn.
   
   
3. I strongly believe that every child is entitled to a high-quality education.
   
   
4. Children must be provided with opportunities to be active participants in the learning process-instead of remaining passive recipients.
   
   
5. As educators, our role is to have children ask questions, explore, and assess what they know and incorporate their experiences in instruction so that they are able to construct meaning and understanding of the world in which they live, a world which is culturally diverse and technologically advanced.
   
   
6. It is our responsibility to educate children in an environment which is safe, clean and structured.
   
   
7. In order for students to be successful learners, they need to have teachers who set high expectations and standards for all students.
   
   
8. Teachers must be provided with ongoing training and support so that they can flourish in their professional growth.
   
   
9. We must cultivate a school climate which believes in the important role of the students’ families and must continuously strive to foster family engagement.
   
   
10. All decisions must be evaluated to determine how they impact on the children and their education. If a decision will enhance their education, only then is it a worthwhile decision.