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Puerto Rico Still Needs Help

Student-initiated, student-driven This week, QPS students donated $325 to Unidos Por Puerto Rico. This is money they raised from weekly bake sales, and it brings the total amount raised and donated by our students since November to $1125. Not bad for the little school...

Interdisciplinary Learning and Problem Solving

Interdisciplinary Learning and Problem Solving

It should be clear by now that at QPS, we don’t just pay lip service to “critical thinking.” We actively teach a defined set of thinking skills that students need in order to be good problem solvers and decision makers.  Ultimately, people with a can-solve attitude....

Technology in Education and Personalized Learning

Technology in Education and Personalized Learning

Ongoing series: How QPS regards & uses technology by Karyn Slutsky, Asst. Director, Queens Paideia The drumbeat to get students on to laptops, and online learning, is relentless in popular discussion. Queens Paideia School hears this drumbeat but proceeds with...

Queens Paideia presents its Education Reform system in Paris

Queens Paideia presents its Education Reform system in Paris

Dispatch by Francis Mechner about QPS Presentation in France Last spring, Frédérique Alexandre-Bailly, school Rector of the Dijon region of France, visited Queens Paideia. She reports directly to the French Minister of Education and is a formidable figure within the...

The new QPS visual identity reflects the Paideia approach

The new QPS visual identity reflects the Paideia approach

Taking its name from the ancient Greek word, παιδεια, whose meaning today refers to education, but whose ancient meaning referred to the unified concepts of education and cultural development, Queens Paideia School (QPS) today embraces this unity of knowledge and cultural development in its refreshed brand identity.