The Coalition of Essential Schools

CES is a robust network of schools and centers, working together to create schools where each child is known well and learns to use his or her mind well. CES mission is to create and sustain equitable, intellectually vibrant, personalized schools and to make such schools the norm of American public education. SOF was recently honored as a "mentor" school within the CES network.
http://www.essentialschools.org/

The Center for Collaborative Education

The mission of the Center for Collaborative Education (CCE) is to improve student learning in K-12 public schools and districts by promoting educational reform that is focused on school and system-wide change. The Center seeks to influence the larger public’s view on education to better support change that fosters democratic and equitable schools. The Center for Collaborative Education’s goal is to be a resource and catalyst for the creation of autonomous and flexible schools. SOF is proud to host visitors from CCE each year.
http://www.ccebos.org/

The New York Performance Standards Consortium

The Consortium represents 28 schools across New York State. Formed in 1997, the Consortium opposes high stakes tests arguing that "one size does not fit all" and has developed an assessment system that leads to quality teaching, that enhances rather than compromises our students' education.
http://www.performanceassessment.org/

The Educational Alliance

The Alliance supports our extended day programs and is a vital part of the SOF family. Beginning its second century of services, The Educational Alliance offers educational and cultural programs as well as services which address almost every conceivable human problem and need - aging, drug abuse, early childhood, homelessness, parenting, andmental health.
http://www.edalliance.org/

Hall Farm Center for Arts & Education

The Hall Farm Center for Arts & Education is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the processes of artistic creation and their integration into school and society by providing an environment for artists, educators and students to investigate, experiment, collaborate and create.
http://www.hallfarm.org/

Learning Leaders

Learning Leaders is New York City's largest nonprofit organization dedicated to serving public school children. Learning Leaders recruits, screens, trains and supports school volunteers who provide instructional support and other enrichment services to New York City public school students.
http://www.learningleaders.org/

Gramercy Neighborhood Associates

The Gramercy Neighborhood Associates, for 84 years dedicated to the needs of the community surrounding the park, has generously added SOF as a beneficiary. GNA volunteers support instruction in our classrooms, have donated much-needed books to our libraries, and have supported teacher-designed projects such as "The Physics of Ferris Wheels" and "Neighborhood Heros - a photojournalism project."

National Middle School Association

NMSA is the only national education association dedicated exclusively to the growth of middle level education. With over 30,000 members representing principals, teachers, central office personnel, professors, college students, parents, community leaders, and educational consultants across the United States, Canada, and 46 other countries, NMSA welcomes and provides support to anyone interested in the health and education of young adolescents.
http://www.nmsa.org/

National School Reform Faculty

The mission of NSRF is to foster educational and social equity by empowering allpeople involved with schools to work collaboratively in reflective democratic communities that create and support powerful learning experiences for everyone. Several staff members are currently involved in training to become NSRF-endorsed facilitators.
http://www.nsrfny.org/

Leave Out ViolencE (LOVE)

Leave Out ViolencE (LOVE) is a not-for-profit organization that started in Canada ten years ago. LOVE's mission is to reduce violence in the lives of youth and in our communities by building a team of youth who communicate a message of non-violence. LOVE Youth Leaders are reaching thousands of kids and adults with their message of non-violence through their presentations and publications. Their message is being heard, particularly with kids as it comes from kids themselves who speak about the destructive path that violence was taking their lives.

School of the Future hosts the first group of LOVE youth here in the states. They have been working with Youth Leaders from Canada and SOF staff for the past two years and have made presentations to the Canadian Consulate and Department of Education in New York City. The SOF youth also engage in the Extended Day program where they study photojournalism at the Educational Alliance. LOVE hopes to create a publication reflecting the work of the youth here in the city.
http://www.leaveoutviolence.com/

Community-Word Project (CWP)

The Community-Word Project (CWP) is a New York City based arts-in-education organization that inspires children in underserved communities to read,interpret and respond to their world and to become active citizens through collaborative arts residencies and teacher training programs. The Community-Word Project¹s goal is to give young people the life skills and safe space that they need to become active citizens. Our participants experience and learn that when we bring our voices and visions together we are more likely to be heard and to make constructive change happen in our lifetime. In CWP workshops young people develop the academic, collaborative and creative skills to bring forth their concerns and ideas to a greater public.
http://www.communitywordproject.org

Other affiliations include many prestigious teacher training programs

New York University's Steinhardt School of Education, Columbia's Teachers College, Hunter College, Pace University, Queens College - who grace us with student teachers, interns, observing teachers, work-study tutors.

We are more than the sum of our parts. SOF's treasured relationships the these organizations will ensure our continued commitment to academic excellence in a meaningful setting.