Special Programs

Community Based Organizations – TASS Middle School has working relationships with several community-based organizations, and we are currently looking to establish more.

·         Third Street music – Provides music instructors to collaborate with our teachers in teaching instrumental music.

·         Learning Leaders – provides volunteers to come into the school to work one on one with children

·         Lincoln Center Institute Focused School – Arts integration and arts professional development and instruction in the classroom.

·         Boys and Girls project – advisory program for 6^th graders. 

·         Hunter College

 
Instructional strategies in use correspond to a standards-based curriculum, and include: 

·          Reading/Writing workshop in ELA and humanities based classrooms

·         Comprehensive classroom libraries

·         Impact math and a constructivist approach to teaching math

·         Cooperative learning in all classes

·         Student-centered learning in all classes

·         Project-based instruction in all classes

·         Common planning time

·         Integrated curriculum with an arts and technology infusion

·         4 arts periods per week of music, visual arts, and/or theater arts

Our current intervention services consist of the following:

Social Intervention

·         Counseling, one-on-one and in small groups

·         After-school soccer, basketball, drama, dance, chess and arts programs to enrich the lives of students.