ACADEMICS · THE SEVEN LABS
Seven labs. Every child, every week.
Not electives and not enrichment. The labs are the curriculum, and no child is tracked out of one.
MON · WED · All grades · 3K–8th
STEM
Chemistry and biology taught as things you do at a bench, plus the computer science and building that go with them.
WHAT STUDENTS MAKE
IN THE ROOM
Benches on castors, a fume hood, a wall of component drawers, and whatever the 6th grade is currently growing.
TUE · THU · All grades · deep track 7th–8th
Media Arts
A full production pipeline for children, from the first draft of a screenplay to the final cut and a public screening.
WHAT STUDENTS MAKE
IN THE ROOM
Cameras, a boom kit, a four-station edit suite and a sound booth built out of a closet.
WED · FRI · All grades
Performing Arts
Instruments, voice, movement and stagecraft, rehearsed toward real performances in front of real audiences.
WHAT STUDENTS MAKE
IN THE ROOM
A sprung floor, a piano, a rack of instruments and a lighting board the 7th grade runs.
DAILY · All grades
Mathematics
Number sense built up into algebra and geometry, with logic and chess treated as part of the subject.
WHAT STUDENTS MAKE
IN THE ROOM
Boards on three walls, manipulatives by grade, and a standing chess ladder that resets each trimester.
DAILY · All grades
Language Arts
Reading and writing taught alongside the multi-language program every student takes part in.
WHAT STUDENTS MAKE
IN THE ROOM
A classroom library in three languages, a writing wall, and a reading corner that is never empty.
MON · FRI · All grades
Art & Shop
Hands on a material. Cutting, sewing, joining, baking and drawing, with animation on the same bench.
WHAT STUDENTS MAKE
IN THE ROOM
Hand tools, four sewing machines, a kiln funded by last spring's gifts, and an oven that gets used.
SEE THEM IN USE
TUE · THU · All grades
Social Studies
History and civics read through the cultures actually sitting in the room, which in Flushing is most of them.
WHAT STUDENTS MAKE
IN THE ROOM
Maps older than the building, a recorder for oral histories, and a table long enough to argue across.