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BY ALINE REYNOLDS Spruce Street School (P.S. 397) Principal Nancy Harris is brimming with excitement over the permanent home for her elementary school at 8 Spruce St., which kindergarteners through second graders will move into come this fall.
Workers are putting the finishing touches on the first four stories of the Frank Gehry building, which will house both P.S. 397 and P.S. 94 starting in September. The latter school will open an early childhood special education program there, its fifth in Manhattan, opening with a kindergarten class and expanding by one grade per year. P.S. 397, meanwhile, will occupy the remainder of the classrooms in the building.
All classrooms will be equipped with wireless Internet, a Smart Board, a laser printer and two iMac computers. Harris ordered tables with adjustable legs and chairs of various sizes to accommodate the students’ disparate heights. The furniture will be delivered on June 27 and will be arranged much as it was in the Tweed Courthouse, P.S. 397′s incubation site.
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The physical setup will be flexible, Harris noted, so staff can make necessary aesthetic changes to the classrooms along the way. “I’m looking at it as, let’s move in the space for a little while, and see how the kids use it and how we can continue to grow into it,” said Harris. “This is our home for a long time, so we want to wait a little while before seeing what we need.”
Harris also hopes to further expand the school’s curriculum in the months and years to come. For example, the school will introduce integrated co-teaching to the curriculum, in which general and special education teachers instruct core curriculum classes together. “We aim to grow all of our programs,” said Harris. “We have the amazing space now ” it’s just a matter of growing the school to have that staff and resources.”
She and P.S. 94 Principal Ronnie Shuster said they hope to emulate the setup at 55 Battery Place, where P.S./I.S. 276 will be incorporating select special needs children from the P.S. 94 program into its classrooms in the fall. “The goal is to integrate our children into the general education classrooms,” Shuster said. “We need a year to get our feet wet, get to know each other and the children. It’s possible it’ll happen sooner than later.”
As it does in its other location, P.S. 94 will be utilizing iPads in its classrooms for speech and language instruction.
“It’s working amazingly well with children with autism. Somehow, when you put it in front of them, you don’t have to tell them anything, they all know what to do!” said Shuster.
The two schools will share cluster rooms, an exercise room, a library and other learning-friendly areas in the Gehry
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