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Karate begins and ends with respect: talking with QPS’s new karate coach about warriorship
Guest post by 4th-grade QPS student Kepler Davis-Cousins and his dad, Simon Cousins Sempai ("Elder") Elena Waldman has been appointed the new karate, self defense, and warriorship coach for the 2018/19 school year at Queens Paideia School. As a long-term student of...
Summer Homework?
This summer, scorching temperatures have turned Queens’ quasi-shaded sidewalks into large rectangular frying pans, and frequent, extended rains make many of us wonder not if there is climate change, but how fast it’s happening. It is often too hot to be...
Kids and Screen Time
On Friday, 7/20, Midday on WNYC hosted an interesting conversation and call-in show about kids and screen time. The guests were: Angela Santomero, co-creator of Blues Clues, Super Why!, Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, and other children’s programs designed to...
Environmental Education at QPS
Short interview with Assistant Director Karyn Slutsky by Anju Dave of Try for Good, a site from abroad that is devoted to sharing ideas about sustainability in all areas of life. We are honored to have been noticed and approached by them....
When Children Love Coming to School
Encapsulation of the great year Queens Paideia School just had. Proof positive that best ideas and practices are out there, and it’s just a matter of choosing to implement them.
Children’s Art: K-8 Resistance
As one of our students' last art projects of this academic year, instructor Donna Levinstone asked each of them to research a global issue of concern and make a statement poster about it. Students of all ages did this, so younger kids tended to focus on "Save the...
Impact of tech on children (and their parents)
No parent social gathering is complete without someone raising the topic of their kids and digital technology, a conversation rife with anxiety-filled confessions of confusion and genuine helplessness. The conversations are also vague, because the wider discussion of...
National School Walkout
We are optimistic that these kids, this generation, will use words and images to change the world for the better. They have already started. Today is National School Walkout--by kids, for kids, about kids--and there was absolutely no question that any QPS student 4th...
Communication Skills: Fractured Fairy Tale News!
As a way of practicing comprehension, writing, presentation, and other communication skills, one of Queens Paideia School's collaborative groups did a unit on Fractured Fairy Tales. If you don't know what those are, you should! Per Marilyn Kinsella, a fractured fairy...
Admissions Open House–March 10
Saturday March 10, 2018 / 10:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. To attend, email us here. 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...