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Institute for Collaborative Education
The Institute for Collaborative Education (also called ICE) is a college-preparatory public secondary school (grades 6–12) in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City near Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village. Part of the DOE's District 2, the school is known for its small class sizes and progressive educational values.
The school is philosophically opposed to high-stakes standardized tests. It is a member of the New York Performance Standards Consortium and is "given a waiver from the chancellor's uniform curriculum." As a Consortium school, ICE's students are exempt from taking most Regents exams. Instead, students present "PBAT" (Performance-Based Assessment Task) projects at the end of each semester to panels of teachers, parents, and outside community members.
Until recently, ICE was a screened school, requiring middle school applicants to submit an essay and undergo an interview. After the COVID-19 pandemic, the school changed to a lottery system, but with two "priority groups":
ICE was founded in 1993 by John Pettinato as an educational alternative to the Regents Exam-based testing system in favor of portfolio-based assessment. ICE was also designed to be a haven for unhoused and underserved youths. (Pettinato had earlier founded the Greenwich Village Youth Council, established in 1969.)
As part of its commitment to resisting high-stakes standardized tests, the school "specifically invites parents of middle-school students to join the opt-out initiative, asking them to demonstrate support for the kind of teaching and learning the school provides, an approach that is antagonistic to rote test preparation."
The New York Times described ICE's approach to learning as "one that fosters the knowledge and the style of critical thinking that the Common Core and most sane, intelligent people understand as essential. In sixth grade, the year of entry, children currently combine a study of ancient Rome with an analysis and performance of elements of Julius Caesar. In seventh grade, a mock trial is conducted around Macbeth".
Most ICE students stay at the school through high school, with only 5-15 ninth-grade seats available per year.
"Eleventh graders take neuroscience in addition to biology and chemistry."
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Institute for Collaborative Education
The Institute for Collaborative Education (also called ICE) is a college-preparatory public secondary school (grades 6–12) in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City near Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village. Part of the DOE's District 2, the school is known for its small class sizes and progressive educational values.
The school is philosophically opposed to high-stakes standardized tests. It is a member of the New York Performance Standards Consortium and is "given a waiver from the chancellor's uniform curriculum." As a Consortium school, ICE's students are exempt from taking most Regents exams. Instead, students present "PBAT" (Performance-Based Assessment Task) projects at the end of each semester to panels of teachers, parents, and outside community members.
Until recently, ICE was a screened school, requiring middle school applicants to submit an essay and undergo an interview. After the COVID-19 pandemic, the school changed to a lottery system, but with two "priority groups":
ICE was founded in 1993 by John Pettinato as an educational alternative to the Regents Exam-based testing system in favor of portfolio-based assessment. ICE was also designed to be a haven for unhoused and underserved youths. (Pettinato had earlier founded the Greenwich Village Youth Council, established in 1969.)
As part of its commitment to resisting high-stakes standardized tests, the school "specifically invites parents of middle-school students to join the opt-out initiative, asking them to demonstrate support for the kind of teaching and learning the school provides, an approach that is antagonistic to rote test preparation."
The New York Times described ICE's approach to learning as "one that fosters the knowledge and the style of critical thinking that the Common Core and most sane, intelligent people understand as essential. In sixth grade, the year of entry, children currently combine a study of ancient Rome with an analysis and performance of elements of Julius Caesar. In seventh grade, a mock trial is conducted around Macbeth".
Most ICE students stay at the school through high school, with only 5-15 ninth-grade seats available per year.
"Eleventh graders take neuroscience in addition to biology and chemistry."