by NYC Private Schools on March 3, 2010
New American Academy Principal Shimon Waronker plans to open a trilingual elementary school in Brooklyn this September and the news has the whole city talking. Some of the discussions are about Waronker’s past achievements in New York schools, while other talks focus on the model of school that is planned on.
In an article carried by the New York Post, education reporter Yoav Gonan, the story about Waronker’s new school emerges.
Waronker, a Spanish-speaking Hasidic Jew who earned his stripes turning around one of the city’s most violent middle schools in The Bronx, will open a trilingual elementary school in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in September. The kids will all graduate fluent in Spanish and French, in addition to English.
The innovative public school will put 60 kids in a classroom with four teachers, who will stay with those same students from kindergarten all the way through fifth grade
Waronker, who hopes to open as many as 50 replications of the school by 2012 if the model takes off, believes the unusual set-up will help build deep relationships among teachers and students and will allow instructors to target their lessons to kids’ specific learning styles.
Many NYC residents are familiar with Rabbi Waronker’s work and his success in taking a failing school in a tough neighborhood, Junior High School 22, in the South Bronx, and turning it around. Waronker, a member of the Chabad-Lubavitch sect of Hasidic Judaism, is a former intelligence officer in the United State Army. The school he took over, Junior High School 22, was listed as one of the 12 most violent in New York, with active gangs, attacks, drug use and alcohol on campus.
The future of Waronker’s new school and its very progressive methods of group teaching to an essentially large student body with multiple teachers in open classrooms.
by NYC Private Schools on February 11, 2010
The Clara Muhammad School of Queens, NY provides an exemplary Islamic education to students from Kindergarten through the 12th grade. The Clara Muhammad Schools provide an education that is steeped in the history and courage of education freedoms that were championed by the founders.
The Clara Muhammad Schools are, today, an international system of schools throughout the continental United States. The schools that are a part of this group include more than 33 full time schools, numerous weekend schools and even some part time schools. They are independently governed and administered, but utilize a curriculum content and methodology based on the Quranic language, logic and vision of Imam W.D. Mohammed. It is important to note, however, that Clara Muhammad School admits students regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, economic status, gender, and/or physical disability
The Mission of the Clara Muhammad Schools
The mission of Clara Muhammad School (CMS) is to provide an Islamic education, foundation, and structure for students with which they can grow as morally conscientious, intelligent, and upright human beings, who are prepared to lead, contribute and compete on a global level; guided by ALLAH (G-D), through HIS creation, the Holy Qur’an, and the life example of Prophet Muhammad (Peace and Blessings be upon him).
The Facts on Clara Muhammad Schools
The Clara Muhammad Schools have a highly individualized student-teacher ratio of 9:1 with a 187-day school year calendar and 7 hours of classroom time per day versus the typical 6 hours of time per day in a public NYC school.
The Clara Muhammad School is an Islamic School teaching children from Kindergarten through the 12th grade.
The Clara Muhammad School provides an excellent Islamic Education as a NYC Private School in Queens.
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