Brooklyn RISE

This Tuesday goes out to our AMAZING 6th and 7th Grade students who finished taking their ELA State Exams today!! 💪💪💪
What is sweeter than celebrating all their hard work and success!?? Last week we decorated and dip-dyed our state test t-shirts, had a visit from an ice cream truck, and a school wide pep rally 🥳🍦
Swipe to the end to the see the grand opening of “Cafe in the Middle”, a space for students to unwind with friends after testing, and an excerpt from a poem written for our students by our amazing Middle School ELA teacher Ms. Ross! 🥹
Our kiddos are the best and we are so proud of them! 💙

🚨‼️🗣️Work in Progress: School🗣️‼️🚨
To say this has been a work in progress, is an UNDERSTATEMENT. We have been working for 8+ years to make the dream of having a permanent home for Brooklyn RISE in Sunset Park a reality for our students and families. 🙏💙
After COUNTLESS site visits and meetings with real estate developers, three failed attempts at long term leases, a failed zone change application, rejected CSD relocation requests, two separate temporary school locations, relocating our school 4.5 miles north and still keeping over 80% of our families which required going from 1 school bus to 7, we are BEYOND ecstatic to officially announce that GROUND HAS BROKEN on our forever home school construction site! 🥳📣🙌
It would have been so much easier to give up and just accept the failure and rejection we faced along the way, but just like we teach our students at RISE, it is absolutely essential to persevere through challenges and have relentless determination to achieve your goals. We promised our families that we would build our students a beautiful school and that we would return to Sunset Park and this is HUGE step towards honoring that promise 🥹

In alignment with the NYC DOE, Brooklyn RISE will be CLOSED tomorrow, Monday, February 23rd for a classic snow day - NO REMOTE LEARNING. ☃️
We hope our students, staff, and families stay safe and warm throughout the storm and we will plan to see you back at school on Tuesday! 💙.