1:6 Teacher to Student Ratio
Grades k-8
Specialized Approach
Testimonials
“Our 9-year-old son suddenly loves school! His enthusiasm and curiosity have grown by leaps and bounds in the short time he’s been at QPS and his progress has been amazing. The personalized curriculum is phenomenal. The teachers/ learning managers are caring, accessible, and very dedicated. QPS is the best-kept secret in LIC!”
“We are truly amazed by the progress our 7-year-old son has made at QPS, not just academically but also as a person. He now takes ownership of his learning objectives and reflects about what he learns and who he is. We believe that it is due to QPS’s nurturing and at the same time academically rigorous environment.”
“Our 5-year-old daughter’s academic and social progress has been astonishing. She is already reading, writing and doing math at the 2nd grade level. She absolutely adores school and learning, while thinking and behaving at an advanced level. QPS is the only place this would have been possible. “
Blog
Media Literacy
Queens Paideia’s curricular goal has always been to impart to students the tools for successfully understanding and interacting with the world around them. A few years in, we began our belief systems program, through which students learned how beliefs are formed and...
Emergency Preparedness
Queens Paideia has many emergency preparedness plans in place, but now there is a new scenario to consider: the potential spread of COVID-19. For all of our community, and anyone else who stops by our blog, we reproduce an email we sent out today. Dear QPS Community,...
Mixing It Up
Every day we give thought to the balance of how kids spend their time--are they moving enough? applying enough? interacting enough?. There's plenty of desk time, but just as much hands on/interactive time. Last week, this is just some of what happened.
Essential Resolutions
Happy New Year. We are back at school, having crossed the threshold between the excitement of end-of-year celebration and the promise of a new year, if not a decade. When we see the results of our work with our students, we feel renewed commitment to that work. Call...
Upcoming Admissions Events
Wednesdays, January 8 and 22, 2019 / 9-10:15 a.m. at QPS Sunday, January 12 / 1-5 p.m. Open House as part of Queens Learns To attend QPS events, please email us. QPS researches and reaches for the most advanced resources and methods available and implements...
Veteran’s Day
You know you’re going to have a great week when you’re already counting blessings on a Monday. Veteran's Day. Much of NYC—and its schools—is off today for Veteran’s Day. QPS does not close on this day because a day off that students don’t know anything about is...
Admissions Open House–October 5, 2019
Saturday October 5, 2019 / 10:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. To attend, please email us. QPS reaches for the most advanced resources and methods available and implements them to suit your child’s unique learning style and abilities. 6:1 student-to-teacher ratio Academic...
2019-2020: Meaning What?
Our recent Parent Orientation was an update for "stakeholders" (parents) about what the Staff of QPS thought about over the summer. We did not changed our curriculum or how we implement it, though we did make some tweaks to our systems and operations, as any...
A School Rooted in Learning Theory
Over Memorial Day Weekend several Queens Paideia staff members decamped to Chicago to attend the Association for Behavior Analysis (ABAI) Conference. At this annual event, behavioral scientists, analysts, and other interested parties converge to share their...
Shakespeare in Queens
Yesterday: so very dreary, a day best and only spent indoors. Which we did, with our usual quotients of hard work and fun. But then, at 1:30 p.m., the most marvelous treat appeared at our door. It was fast, utterly delicious, and it wasn't GrubHub. It could...