Our Partners
Partners--in our goal of an enriched education for all students we work with a wide variety of partners:
Academic and Collegiate Partners
NYC Standards Performance Consortium--in a pact with New York State, allows our students to graduate with a Regents diploma upon demonstration of their authentic intellectual work in four subjects--an Historical Research Paper, Complex Math Problem, Science Lab and Analysis, and Discussion of a work of Literature--that is written as well as presented to adult evaluators. It is a time and attention-intensive process that shows how seriously we take our students' work and thinking!
College Now CUNY--partners with Hunter College and Guttman College. We are fortunate to offer CUNY college courses for credit at Harvest incluidng Psychology, Sociology, Media Studies and others.
National Education Opportunity Network (NEON)--each semester Harvest offers several college-credit courses in conjunction with universities including Brown, Cornell, Howard and others
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Competency Collaborative--an approach to teaching and learning that values feedback and depth with students talking about their experience here in video.
College Access for All and CARA (College Access Research Association)
CUNY Tutor Corps (note: Harvest also offers Tutoring and Writing Center for free almost every day)
John Jay Upward Bound--administered by a Harvest alum!
PROSE--a governance structure that allows us to mutually agree on improvements to our school for Excellence
SAT Prep with Epic (SAT prep right at Harvest weekly)
Many of our teachers work with other professional associations including: the Academy for Teachers, Math for America, Facing History and Ourselves, Materials for the Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art professional learning community, New York Public Library Residency, Breadloaf, the Writing Project.
Further Enrichment Partners--in addition to an abundance of Electives and after school programs at Harvest we work with:
Arts: BAM Word. Sound. Power.; Ballet Hispanico Residency; Jazz House at Trinity; Literature to Life; The Park Avenue Armory; Theater Development Fund; Broadway Bridges.
​Athletics and Sports: In addition to our in-house Fitness room (weights, bikes, treadmills, etc.) and Yoga and Pilates in our Dance Studio Harvest works with:
PSAL Sports teams with the Washington Irving Campus
Hudson River Community Sailing--through a weekly after school program students learn to sail on the Hudson in fall and spring or build a boat in winter for a PE credit
morning Physical Education at the McBurney YMCA,
Table Tennis League
Adventure and Teambuilding: annual 9th grade overnight to Camp Ramapo for Children, annual senior climb of Bear Mountain State Park, annual Field Day on Governors' Island, elective group Intensive trips with YOP of the Appalaichan Mountain Club.
Community and Youth Development:
Brain Power Wellness Student Leaders training program
Civics for All and Participatory Budgeting
Day One RAPP Program (with a full-time social worker on site at Harvest)
ExpandED Career-Connected Learning for senior year Internships
NYC Outward Bound Schools Crew Initiative--supporting a strong homegrown Advisory program
Summer Search--an 8-year professional mentoring program including summer travel
The Center ROAR Activist Program (Responsibility, Action, Opportunity and Results)
Teens Make Health Happen with Health Corps , Floating Hospitals,
Wellness in the Schools--a teaching Chef promotes healthy eating and cooking for the whole community