External Partnerships
Renaissance relies on outstanding community partnerships to expand its students’ world view. Music, Dance, and Mandarin; all these creative forms are integrated into the social studies, math, science, and ELA curriculum at various times in all the grades in successful partnerships with many of the cultural jewels of New York City.
Innovative approaches to science and geography have brought the leaders in these subjects to Renaissance’s door. Some of our current classroom partnerships include:
- NYGA – New York Geographic Alliance – Supporting high-quality K-2 Geography Education
- Children’s Institute – Primary Project to help our youngest students adjust to their classrooms
- Studying the built environment with Architecture for Children: K-2 Social Studies, Geography, Math and Architecture
- Latin American Cultural Center of Queens: after-school arts and crafts and Social Studies, careers in the arts
K-2 Students continue to be actively involved in school-wide extracurricular programs.
Some of those extra-curricular partners include:
- The Possibility Project
- Sadie Nash Young Women’s Leadership Project
- Move This World: social change through the art of movement
- Engineering For Kids
- Weill Cornell Medical School Youth Scholar Program
…and many others.
We are grateful to all of our Community Partners, who benefit the school through direct funding, in-kind services, professional development opportunities and coordinating our outreach to other charter schools:
- CEI-PEA PICCS Grant Consortium
- Bank Street College of Education
- B. R. Guest Restaurants, Inc.—culinary arts
- CUNY Middle Grades Initiative/GEAR-UP
- NYU Child Study Institute
- NY Partners for Arts Ed, School Arts Program
- The Kupferberg Center, Queens College
- Metropolitan Opera Guild
- Performing Arts Center of New York
- New York Geographic Alliance
- National Geographic Education Foundation
- New York City Charter School Center
- Various Community Health Organizations
- State University of New York Optometric Center
- US Representative Joseph Crowley
- Senator Jose Peralta
- Assembly members Francisco Moya, Michael DenDekker, Jeffrion Aubry
- Community Board 3
- NYC Council Members Daniel Drumm and Julissa Ferreras
- Former NYC Council Member Helen Sears and Former NYS Senator John Sabini