How We Know Students are Really Learning without Grades
Our Director of Teaching and Learning, Shannon Timoney, answers parent questions about PCS curriculum. In this installment she talks about how we know students are really learning without tests or grades.
Math & Literacy Curriculum at PCS
Our Director of Teaching and Learning, Shannon Timoney, answers your questions about PCS curriculum — in this installment, she lays out our Math and Literacy curriculum.
Meet Our New Head of School
Join us in welcoming Rachel Gomez Peterson to PCS as our new head of school! Here she shares what drew her to PCS, how she envisions her leadership role, and her plans for her first year.
A Trimester of Integrated Learning: Marine History, Culture and Mechanics
From ferries and whaling ships to harbors, lighthouses and marine swimmers, students across grade levels considered out the history, culture and mechanics of marine transportation. Read more …
A New Field Research Record!
We set a new record this spring during our Marine History, Culture and Navigation unit! Read more …
PCS Narrative Reports
Read about why we use narrative reports and authentic assessment as opposed to number or letter grades.
On-Site at SUNY Maritime College, the Bronx
Middle Schoolers took to the seas aboard two SUNY Maritime College vessels to learn more about New York Harbor. Read more …
Hands-On Science Learning
Hands-on science learning in the classroom in preparation for field work at Montauk lighthouse. Read more …
Celebration of Learning: The Music Lab
The Celebration of Learning: when project-based learning comes alive as students present months of real, hands-on work to their community. Read more …
Not Every Integration is Planned
Following the research to new learning during our Integrated Studies Unit.
Middle School Meets Marine Biology
Authentic, collaborative science emerges from an important community partnership.
A Hands-on Approach to Skill Building
Hands-on learning doesn’t stop at project work — math and literacy skill building benefit from a mult-tactile approach too. Read more …
Feed-a-Kid at CAST
Our second graders were on hand at CAST last week to help with the Feed-a-Kid program as part of our service learning initiative.
Project-Based Learning in Action
Our students prepare their projects and classrooms leading up to our end-of-trimester Celebration of Learning focused on our Integrated Studies Unit: The Living Forest. See project-based learning in action.
A Celebration of Learning: Our Forest Unit, Fall 2025
Celebrating a trimester of learning about trees and forests!
