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When students are in school, we believe there must be an urgent focus on utilizing every possible
moment for learning. In the morning, as students arrive, they eat breakfast and complete a “Bright
Work” activity which refreshes what they learned the day before, focuses their minds, and allows
them to start the day with success.
Our weekly schedule reflects our central mission of ensuring that students excel academically. In the
foundation building early years of kindergarten through third grade, we have 160 minutes per day of
literacy instruction and 80 minutes per day of math instruction. Students study science and social
studies for fifty minutes each every other day. Four days each week we have either P.E. or art or
music.
We allocate a significant amount of time to activities designed to foster character development and
development of a strong and positive school culture, steps we see as essential to preparing students
to excel in high school and college. Each day, a short classroom meeting starts the day off on a
positive, energetic foot. Our morning Read Aloud allocates 25 minutes each day to literacy-based
activities that impel students to examine the values and personal qualities which lead to success. On
Fridays, we have a longer community meeting called Creed Circle designed to promote school culture
and celebrate student achievement.
Throughout the day, students have breaks for snacks, lunch, and exercise.
In fourth grade, when students have established a solid foundation in literacy, time dedicated to
math, science, social studies, and technology increases as time dedicated to literacy decreases.
Students continue to devote 100 minutes per day to English / Language Arts but increase time spent
on math to 80 minutes per day, science to 50 minutes per day, and social studies to 50 minutes per
day. We add a 30-minute Drop Everything And Read period each day, building the reading habit
while providing valuable practice in silent, sustained reading
Leadership Prep Bedford Stuyvesant expects to devote approximately the following numbers of
minutes to each core subject each week:
Grades K-3
Minutes per Week
Grade 4
Minutes per Week
English Language Arts 800 650
Math 400 400
Science 100 200
Social Studies 100 200
Leadership Prep Bedford Stuyvesant Charter School
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