Educational Partners
Saint David's partners with a number of cultural, historical, and educational institutions in order to expand and enhance boys' learning in a variety of disciplines. Educators from these institutions work with our teachers to engage boys in active inquiry-based learning experiences, both in and outside the classroom.
EDUCATIONAL PARTNERS
- AMNH-Hayden Planetarium
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Website:
https://www.amnh.org/our-research/hayden-planetarium/digital-universeIn a one-of-a-kind partnership, sixth graders learn to "fly through" the Digital Universe as a means of studying the cosmos during a series of extended field study visits to the American Museum of Natural History-Hayden Planetarium. They explore a topic of their choice and translate their research findings into arresting multimedia presentations that they conduct from the control room of the Planetarium.
- American Museum of Natural History
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Website:
https://www.amnh.org/
Omega boys' interdisciplinary study of dinosaurs includes a visit to the Dinosaur exhibit at the museum where they actively partake in interactive activities such as archeological digs.
- Central Park Conservancy
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Website:
https://www.centralparknyc.org/As a social service project, Saint David's fifth graders work with the CPC to help maintain and beautify Central Park.
- Common Sense
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Website:
https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship/The digital citizenship strand of our Sophrosyne and Research programs are informed by the Common Sense Digital Citizenship Curriculum, which is designed to empower students to think critically, behave safely, and participate responsibly in our digital world.
- DNA Learning Center of Cold Spring Harbor
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Website: https://dnalc.cshl.edu/
Boys in the Fifth and Eighth Grades engage with scientists from the DNALC for in-depth study of DNA in a series of hands-on learning experiences. Students' study of DNA takes place at school and at Cold Spring Harbor DNA Learning Center facilities.
- Ellis Island
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Website: https://www.ellisisland.org/
The third graders' study of immigration and its impact on their city, state, and nation, includes a visit to Ellis Island, where more than 12 million immigrants entered the United States between 1892-1954. Back at school, the learning from this visit is incorporated in the boys' Mock Ellis Island Activity, in which they role play immigrants' experiences at Ellis Island.
- Frost Valley YMCA
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Website: https://frostvalley.org/group-and-family-retreats/school-trips/programs/
PEEC’s education programs are designed to provide a holistic presentation of the natural world.
- The Frick Collection
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Website: https://www.frick.org/
In Sixth Grade art, boys visit the Frick Collection to view, sketch, and analyze master portraits, deepening the boys' experience and understanding of the genre.
- Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
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Website: https://www.gilderlehrman.org/
Boys in the Fifth and Sixth Grades have access to the Gilder Collection, a unique archive of primary source documents, which they explore during their study of the Revolutionary Era and Civil War.
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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Website: https://www.guggenheim.org/
Second, seventh, and eighth graders spend several sessions of art during the year at the Guggenheim, drawing, and learning about the museum's architecture and its collection under the guidance of a museum educator. The Second and Seventh Grade courses culminate with an exhibit of the boys' work at the museum, viewed by the boys' families and members of the community.
- Manhattan Childrens Center
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Website: https://www.manhattanchildrenscenter.org/
During the fall and winter second graders make 12 visits to Manhattan Childrens Center, a school on the Upper West Side that provides education and treatment for children with autism spectrum disorder and related disorders. Through working and playing with children who experience the world differently than they do, boys develop a deeper sense of empathy and an understanding that while people may differ in some ways, at the core, we are all the same.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Website: https://www.metmuseum.org/
Just a few blocks to the school's south, The Met provides rich opportunities for out-of-class learning in art and humanities classes.
- El Museo del Barrio
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Website: https://www.elmuseo.org/
In celebration of Dia de los Muertos, fifth graders visit El Museo del Barrio in Spanish Harlem.
- Museum of the City of New York
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Website: https://www.mcny.org/
Second graders visit the museum during their year-long exploration of New York City and the many ways it has changed throughout the years.
- Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
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Website: https://www.moma.org/
Second graders visit MoMA during their interdisciplinary study of Picasso in art and Spanish classes. Eighth graders visit MoMA during their study of modern art, where the works often inspire their culminating humanities art presentation project.
- National Dance Institute (NDI)
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Website: https://nationaldance.org/
Saint David's third graders participate in a ten-week program with the National Dance Institute, held in our theatre. The sessions are led by a team of three teaching artists--two teacher/choreographers and a musician who use NDI's unique teaching methods to instill in students a love of the arts.
- New-York Historical Society
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Website: https://www.nyhistory.org/
Through our partnership with the New-York Historical Society First Graders study historical maps of New York City and develop cartography techniques. Second and Third Graders explore the history of early New York through hands-on examination of artifacts provided by N-YHS educators.
Fifth Graders learn about the American Revolution and develop Revolutionary War Broadsheets.
- Pocono Environmental Education Center (PEEC)
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Website: https://www.peec.org/programs/school-programs
PEEC’s education programs are designed to provide a holistic presentation of the natural world.
- Prepare Inc.
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Website: https://www.prepareinc.com/ The Sixth and Eighth Grade health programs includes 10 sessions with health educators from Prepare, Inc., a self-advocacy group that teaches young people how to make safe and healthy choices in situations involving peer pressure and other dangers.
- Tenement Museum
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Website: https://www.tenement.org/ Third graders experience personally what life was like for immigrants at the turn of the 20th century, by visiting apartments that re-create immigrant life on the Lower East Side.
- The Center for Spiritual and Ethical Education
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Website: https://www.csee.org/ Saint David's partners with CSEE to develop programs and practices at the heart of youth development.
- The Jewish Museum
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Website: https://www.thejewishmuseum.org/
Fourth graders visit the Jewish Museum as part of their study of world religions.
AFFILIATES
- Horizons National
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Website: https://www.horizonsnational.org/
Summer learning program serving low-income public school students on campuses of independent schools and colleges.
- International Boys School Coalition (IBSC)
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Website: https://www.theibsc.org/
Founded in 1995, the International Boys' Schools Coalition is a not-for-profit coalition of independent, parochial and public schools from around the world dedicated to the education and development of boys world-wide, the professional growth of those who work with them, and the advocacy and the advancement of institutions that serve them.
- National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS)
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Website: https://www.nais.org
The National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) is a nonprofit membership association that provides services to more than 1,700 schools and associations of schools in the United States and abroad, including 1,400 independent private K-12 schools in the U.S.
- New York State Association of Independent Schools (NYSAIS)
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Website: https://www.nysais.org/
The New York State Association of Independent Schools promotes the independence, well-being and public understanding of, and respect for, New York independent schools and serves as an accrediting body chartered by the New York State Board of Regents.
ADMISSIONS
- A Better Chance
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Website: https://www.abetterchance.org/
Organization established to open doors for young people of color to educational opportunities that will position them to assume positions of responsibility and leadership in American society.
- Association of Independent School Admission Professionals (AISAP)
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Website: https://www.aisap.org/
Organization founded by member schools to support admissions efforts.
- Early Steps
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Website: https://www.earlysteps.org/
Non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of racial diversity within New York City independent schools through increased enrollment of children of color beginning at the kindergarten and first grade levels.
- Independent School Admission Association of Greater New York (ISAAGNY)
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Website: https://www.isaagny.org/
Not-for-profit organization that strives to further a spirit of cooperation among Member Schools by coordinating admissions practices and procedures.
- Parents League of New York
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Website: https://www.parentsleague.org
The League was formed to unite parents in an effort to promote the moral, mental and physical well-being of their children in matters affecting their education, amusements and home life.
- Prep for Prep
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Website: https://www.prepforprep.org/
Prep for Prep identifies New York City's most promising students of color and prepares them for placement at independent schools. Once placed, Prep offers support and opportunities to ensure the academic accomplishment and personal growth of each student.
- Summer Steps
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Website:
https://www.brickchurchschool.org/SummerSteps
Summer Steps prepares children of need for optimal participation and success in kindergarten aiming to facilitate cognitive, social, emotional and physical development through a wide variety of learning experiences.