Our Mission
At PS 96, our staff, parents, and the community are dedicated to providing the academic, personal, and social growth of all students through diverse learning experiences where our students achieve academic success and are personally motivated by our core values, having respect, owning our choices, we are safe and leading with kindness.
OUR VISION
At PS 96, we develop responsible and productive scholars who possess critical thinking and academic skills, which is delivered by dedicated, motivated educators in a safe and nurturing environment that is supported by families for the betterment of the community.
OUR Values
· We believe every scholar has the ability to achieve academic and social success by providing a child-centered learning environment.
· We commit ourselves in providing scholars with the resources they need to become independent, accountable and self-motivated learners.
· We believe in providing our scholars with rigorous instruction aligned to the Next Generation Learning Standards.
· We collaborate and foster leadership opportunities in order to enhance pedagogical skills, which lead to improving student outcomes.
· We believe by creating a strong school and home relationship each scholar can meet their full potential.
· We believe children learn best when their social-emotional needs are nurtured through our core values of having respect, owning our choices, we are safe and leading with kindness.
· We commit ourselves in providing scholars with the resources they need to become independent, accountable and self-motivated learners.
· We believe in providing our scholars with rigorous instruction aligned to the Next Generation Learning Standards.
· We collaborate and foster leadership opportunities in order to enhance pedagogical skills, which lead to improving student outcomes.
· We believe by creating a strong school and home relationship each scholar can meet their full potential.
· We believe children learn best when their social-emotional needs are nurtured through our core values of having respect, owning our choices, we are safe and leading with kindness.
Instructional focus
If teachers participate in consistent data analysis in order to inform their instruction and use that data to purposely plan engaging, differentiated lessons for all learners, then student engagement and understanding of content will increase leading to greater proficiency in all subject areas at P.S. 96.