School of the Future: Exploring Innovative Education and its Impact

This essay provides an in-depth analysis of the School of the Future, a public secondary school in New York City. The essay highlights the school's unique approach to student development, emphasizing emotional, intellectual, and social growth. It discusses the school's curriculum, which prepares students for college through rigorous academics and diverse extracurricular programs, including sports, arts, and computer programming. The essay focuses on the use of Exhibition Rubrics for assessment, replacing traditional high school exams, and describes the various programs offered, such as the Manhattan Youth Activity Program and Spring School. It emphasizes the school's commitment to fostering student creativity, teamwork, and communication skills, ultimately aiming to help students discover their interests and achieve their goals. The essay also references several academic sources to support its claims about the school's effectiveness in promoting student success.

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School of the Future sets an example of public education that usually works in the New York
City. It is an excellent institution where the students get an opportunity to undergo a
transformation of themselves in every way possible either through development in terms of
emotional psychology, act of intellect and they get opportunities to develop themselves both
socially as well as growth in terms of personal skill wise (Johnson, Pas and Bradshaw, 2016).
It is basically a small school that runs under secondary education usually serves children who
belong to the standards of sixth grade up to twelfth grade and is located in Manhattan
District. The teachers in school mainly focus on overall development of a child from the time
they get admitted to this school up to the time they get admitted to a college or a university. It
is a school with a curriculum of education designed as such that would make someone ready
to get through rigorous academics as well as meet criteria of various colleges. Students are
provided with variety of opportunities so that apart from studies they get opportunities to
explore into vast world of different recreation programs like competitive sports, theatre
programs, carry out trips on foreign exchange, and undergo themselves through various
computer programming sessions and several internship programs.
Today’s modern world mainly emphasizes on testing an individual’s potentiality in terms of
high stakes however School of the Future usually reflect on authenticity of college as well as
expectations on the basis of career programs through their educational programs. Stacy
Goldstein is the Principal as well as Director of this educational institute and she abides by
NYC Collaborates to provide easier facilities on education to the students. A certain
phenomenon by the name of Exhibition Rubrics are the basic foundation of school units as
these are mainly utilized for taking assessment of pupils in place of exams that are conducted
for High School. These exhibitions are conducted mainly on English papers, science subjects
as well as history and mathematics. Students are asked to take a subject according to their
choice that they would be able to finish at the final semester examination before promoting to

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eleventh or twelfth grade and then oral presentations are taken so that teachers as well as
students can make a combined score on them and this helps to identify strengths as well as
weaknesses of students towards a particular subject. In this educational institution every
project activities are undertaken by students as well as teachers that includes lots of fun as
well as entertainment. The pupils form excellent teams where many students starting from
junior to senior section get an opportunity to participate and express their spirits towards
games and sports. They also become winner of various competitions when there are
interschool Chess Competition and they also show a great deal of interest towards Rugby as
well as football game. There are exclusive programs on drama activities that are organized
within premises of school that helps to bring the students together through a cohesive form of
community. These programs render students with lots of platforms where they can showcase
their creative ideas as well as talents and also provide them motivation to speak on stage in
front of audience on the stage. Students get a wide variety of opportunity to ensemble process
of building activities, more persuasive in terms of communication activities in written as well
as oral form and thus they get chance to read poems and notes by famous authors and poets.
Through this process of education, it helps a child to grow in terms of ideas and interests and
this school shows a path of light to pupils that can easily be followed by them and understand
their potentiality in a particular field. From the very childhood age people get an opportunity
to focus on their field of interests and they start working hard in order to achieve their
particular goal and objective (Mee and Haverback, 2014). There is another activity known by
the name of Spring School through individuals get opportunity to develop their ability in
singing, learn to design sets, costumes, choreography as well other skills that enables a child
to explore and gather knowledge. Manhattan Youth Activity Program is a particular
curriculum that the school offers a student to take when he or she gets admitted to the level of
middle school and through this programme one gets a chance to explore vast field of

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scientific studies, enrich their grounds on platform of literature, and develop expertise in the
field of mathematics as well as engineering (McCoy and Bowen, 2015). Thus it is well
understood that apart from daily studies and hectic schedule if a child is given the opportunity
as well as leisure period of time then they would explore into a vast world of creativity where
they will learn several skills that would help them to undertake a bright career towards their
future.

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Reference List
Johnson, S.L., Pas, E. and Bradshaw, C.P., 2016. Understanding the association between
school climate and future orientation. Journal of youth and adolescence, 45(8),
pp.1575-1586.
Mee, M. and Haverback, H.R., 2014. Commitment, preparation, and early career frustrations:
Examining future attrition of middle school teachers. American Secondary Education,
42(3), p.39.
McCoy, H. and Bowen, E.A., 2015. Hope in the social environment: Factors affecting future
aspirations and school self-efficacy for youth in urban environments. Child and
Adolescent Social Work Journal, 32(2), pp.131-141.