PS41 is a welcoming and collaborative community of students, educators, and families, dedicated to providing the highest quality education to each of our students. Located in the heart of historic Greenwich Village, PS41 reflects the rich cultural diversity of our neighborhood and dynamically incorporates the resources of our neighborhood into our studies.
Central to our mission is a shared belief that each child and family brings to our school a unique set of experiences, perspectives, and abilities. We work to build strong relationships between and among each student, family, and educator. We believe all students benefit from diverse and inclusive schools and classrooms. Our school community is built on an understanding of and respect for others. As a New York City Public School, our community encompasses diversity in many ways, with a variety of ethnicities, races, family structures, learning styles, socio-economic backgrounds, and beliefs. Our curriculum provides academic rigor for all students and strives to provide cross-cultural understandings among our students while promoting a strong sense of social responsibility. We seek to create an
equitable community for people of all races, abilities,
genders, socioeconomic statuses, religions, ages, and sexual
orientations to achieve personal success by being
represented, loved, supported, and heard. We seek to
cultivate justice-seeking citizens who serve as lifelong agents of change in our multicultural world
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We provide an academically rigorous program to ensure all students succeed within the school and beyond. As educators, we believe a supportive environment affirms and celebrates individual identities and different learning styles, and also provides students opportunities to meet their full potential. We believe in cultivating critical thinkers and justice-seeking citizens. Our educators use a variety of teaching practices to achieve this, such as the workshop approach, which encourages student voice and choice. We aim to make curricular decisions with intentionality and purpose that are rooted in equity.
Our curriculum and school practices incorporate the importance of sustainability and environmental justice in order to create a safer, healthier and more resilient future for all. We aim to teach students the limits of natural resources and how to meet our own needs while also enhancing the ability of future generations to meet theirs. We aim to instill a commitment from our students that they will be stewards of our planet throughout their lives.
Our highly dedicated faculty works closely together to engage in continuous, ongoing professional learning that helps teachers grow their practice to create and sustain equitable outcomes for students through an affirming and enriching environment. We value parental involvement and collaboration among students, families, and faculty. We believe in engaging educators, students and families as allies to foster real dialogue around issues of inequities. In collaboration with the community, PS41 aims to nurture lifelong learners who navigate the world through an equitable, anti-bias and anti-racist lens.
