177 Pondfield Road • Bronxville • NY • 10708 BRONXVILLE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT

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The Bronxville School

The Bronxville

Innovate • Lead • Think Critically • Engage the WorldPROMISE

The Bronxville

Innovate • Lead • Think Critically • Engage the WorldPROMISE

The Bronxville

Innovate • Lead • Think Critically • Engage the WorldPROMISE

To innovate, discover and create.To make something new from what you know.

To find your voice and communicate clearlyin order to lead with passion and persistence.

To think critically, explore nature, history and culture.To gain the understanding and courage to change.

To collaborate and serve.To engage the world around you and make it a better place.

Critical Thinking

EngagedCitizenship

Innovation

Leadership

Persistence

CreativityInquiry

HumilityEmpowerment

CourageOpen Mindedness

Empathy

The Bronxville PromiseIt all began when Bronxville citizens established a public school system that was rooted in the progressive movement of the 1920s and the philosophy of John Dewey, who believed in organizing education around student interests, learning by doing, group work and social responsibility.

Today, the Bronxville Promise recaptures and updates those original ideals and confirms that the district’s highest aspirations for young people go beyond test scores, and that a Bronxville School graduate is more than an academic transcript. Administrators and teachers have worked diligently to ensure that fulfilling the Bronxville Promise is a reality for all students. Teachers and students have collaboratively defined innovation, leadership, critical thinking and engaged citizenship with careful attention to the skills that underpin each disposition. Based on those indicators and outcomes, teachers have created project-based learning curricula to understand how students are progressing across a continuum of skills that align with the Bronxville Promise.

In the upcoming years, we will be adding an innovation center where students can engage with technology that inspires innovation, as well as a learning commons area where we anticipate more interdisciplinary work to take place. We remain committed to pioneering the best educational experience for our students and continuing to be an example of what is possible in public school education through our Bronxville Promise.

A Snapshot Of Our SchOOlS

Bronxville Elementary School Serving students in kindergarten through fifth grade, the school provides a rigorous and joyful environment for learning. With an emphasis on the dispositions of the Bronxville Promise, students develop their capacity to innovate, lead, think critically and engage the world.

Our students are motivated, curious, collaborative and actively engaged in their learning. They are continuously engaged in hands-on activities, research-based reading and writing workshops from Teachers College at Columbia University, and Singapore mathematics with a focus on concrete and abstract mathematical concepts. The curriculum offers project-based learning units in science and social studies that embed critical thinking skills and engaged citizenship. The school’s expansive art, music, physical education, library and coding programs support the core curriculum, and our instructional technology program is infused

international levels is a longstanding tradition for Bronxville students and a core value within the school community.

The high school offers a multitude of academic challenges for students through honors classes and Advanced Placement courses. In addition, we offer Computational Physics, a project-based course in which students develop programs that mimic physical phenomena. The Humanities Research Seminar, in partnership with Sarah Lawrence College, allows students to research issues of inequity and complete a research-based paper and project. Students also may choose from dynamic online courses in a blended-learning approach. Bronx River Research allows students to formulate questions related to the river and participate in authentic research through data collection and analysis. In Playwriting, students study the craft, create one-act plays and present them as a culminating activity. We also encourage students to participate in independent study and independent research projects.

The Bronxville Promise defines four dispositions we strive to develop to the fullest in all our students, weaving them into the fabric of school culture, programs and services. Project-based learning units, technology-enhanced lessons, sustained attention to writing development, access to online courses, redesigned classroom spaces and attention to growth in leadership in all areas of activity support this endeavor.

throughout all aspects of the curriculum. Through MakerSpace, students learn to be innovative, solve complex problems and utilize design thinking. Our students’ social and emotional well-being is supported and nurtured inside and outside of the classroom through our Mindfulness program.

Students can participate in an after-school program, run by the PTA, that offers different enrichment courses. Through the Student Council, students promote and facilitate a variety of initiatives throughout the school year.

Bronxville Middle School

Serving students in grades six through eight, the school emphasizes student well-being and connection with each other and their community. Teachers are all certified in their fields of concentration and many hold multiple advanced degrees.

The classes offered across the three-year continuum allow students to try new things, develop a sense of budding interests and, over time, identify and cultivate their passions. In addition to core academic classes (English, math, science and social studies), students take four special classes (art, tech, computer, health), a world language (French, Latin or Spanish), a music class (band, chorus or orchestra) and physical education. A keystone of the curriculum is the Advisory program, which meets in small groups to develop greater understanding of social-emotional strategies to enhance well-being. Infusing new and innovative programs into the curriculum has long been a hallmark of the Bronxville Middle School, including a recent unit of study incorporating the ecosystem of the Bronx River into the science curriculum.

A wide variety of sport and club offerings meets student interests and needs, including intramural and modified sports after school (track, basketball and volleyball) and club offerings at lunch (student government, school newspaper, yearbook, French Club and American Sign Language).

Bronxville High School

A public four-year college preparatory school, Bronxville High School is nationally recognized for educational excellence. The teaching faculty consists of approximately 60 full- and part-time teachers, all of whom hold a minimum of a master’s degree. Our counselors, including the director, each work comprehensively with students in grades 9-12 for four years.

Bronxville students are engaged citizens who collectively create and lead a healthy school community beyond the classroom through participation in extracurricular activities, such as interscholastic athletics, music ensembles, drama, student government, Model UN, special interest and curriculum clubs, an online newspaper, literary magazine and community service organizations with a local as well as a worldwide focus. Service at school, local, national and