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We are so proud of our Bronxville students, who displayed amazing initiative, professionalism, and creativity as they provided a delightful array of food, handmade wares, games, and activities at the Bizarre Bazaar. Congratulations to our hardworking students on raising $2,173 for the student council in just two hours!

On a crisp, sunny December day, Bronxville students visited the historic Bartow-Pell Mansion, one of the best-preserved Greek Revival structures in the United States. They explored all corners of the estate featuring the main living quarters, a carriage house, manicured gardens, and a Native American wigwam. While touring the beautiful Federal-style interior decorated for the holidays, they learned about the lives of the Bartow family and made connections to their own. Of particular interest were the cool toys, games, period clothing, and unique grooming and bathing elements offering a window into nineteenth-century culture. After impressing the museum guides with insightful questions, the students collaborated to solve historical clues that opened a series of lockboxes. They were rewarded for their efforts with a delicious piece of artisanal sorghum sugar candy.

We are so proud of our Bronxville Student Council for throwing a fabulous Homecoming event last week featuring food, tunes, and fun! The impressive turnout included not only the majority of our current Bronxville students, but many alumni and former faculty as well. Congratulations to Bronxville on this highly successful event!

FlexSchool Founder Jacqui Byrne had an inspiring weekend at EdCamp New Jersey 2024! EdCamp New Jersey is a free, participant-driven, unconference for educators of all grade levels and content areas. Jacqui had the opportunity to converse and collaborate with other educators from all over New Jersey. She also led a dynamic session, "Why Do Smart Kids Act Up or Shut Down?" and contributed her expertise as a supporting speaker for "Gifted 101" and "Differentiating Instruction for Gifted Learners." 

We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to our Berkeley Heights students, faculty, volunteers, and sponsors — their hard work and support throughout the fall season resulted in a fantastic and fun event. Congratulations to our Berkeley Heights students on a highly successful fundraiser!

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We're proud to have graduated fifteen students from our ACES program and our Berkeley Heights, Bronxville, and Cloud campuses. Family and friends came in droves to help us celebrate, and our community enjoyed rousing speeches, musical performances, and delicious potluck dishes. Our seniors were sent off in style!

We excitedly welcomed new and returning students to our summer programs this July! FlexSummer students on our Cloud campus enjoyed courses such as Chess, Video Game Design, and Improv. Berkeley Heights students were treated to Extended School Year classes and experiential learning trips to the Turtleback Zoo, Gravity Vault, and more!

On Friday, our Bronxville students traveled to Rye Nature Center for an afternoon of cleaning up litter and clearing out invasive plant species such as garlic mustard — a plant that is not harmful to humans but contains a chemical that kills the roots of native plants and quickly takes over the forest floor.

Cloud students in Liz’s Environmental Science class are focusing on innovations to help mitigate environmental concerns. Recently, the class designed an experiment to test the rate of decomposition of various materials used to make straws including plastic, paper, bamboo, agave, and coconut fiber.

Thank you so much to everyone – our students, parents, and faculty, and especially the Bronxville student council and fearless leader Jenna – who came together to make this event such an incredible success! We are so proud of our students, who displayed amazing initiative, professionalism, and creativity as they provided a delightful array of food, handmade wares, games, and activities at the first-ever Bizarre Bazaar.

Congratulations to our hardworking students on raising $1,457 for the student council in just two hours! 

• "I wanted to let you know that this isn't my least favorite class anymore." 
• "Yeah, I agree. It's nice that students get to talk and lead the class to examine stuff like this graph. I can see what it's about and make observations about it even if it's not always right. It's more fun than sitting while a teacher talks at you about what you should know." 
• "Yeah, I like that too! That's why this is my favorite class."

One of the most fruitful lessons of the Civil Rights Movement was that it takes everyone working together to achieve significant social change. Another was that American diversity is a strength and something to be proud of. In that spirit, FlexSchool’s Cloud Campus students came together from multiple locations around the globe to create a digital quilt commemorating the events of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, and honoring the diverse contributions of history-makers in Black political, athletic, religious, cultural and creative communities.

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• "I'm sad that it's not continuing on Broadway for longer."
• "Favorite musical ever. I loved it! It is good for the public to see a musical about autism."
• "I really like that the actors were really nice after the show when we got to meet them. I also liked how they represented some different traits of autism and mentioned that there are many more."
• "I felt very seen."

FlexSchool Bronxville has been learning about the current housing crisis in New York City. Over 100,000 people are seeking temporary shelter, and many are refugees of the climate crisis. Our community came together to respond, collecting several boxes of nonperishable foods, and over 40 items of winter clothing like coats, hats, and sweaters. On top of that, Haleigh's Cooking Up History class made 52 bagged lunches to distribute, using ingredients that were generously donated by Geoffrey Fischer, a chef and FlexSchool parent. All donated goods are being dispersed at emergency shelters throughout the Bronx and Manhattan. The winter clothing and food drive will continue through the cold weather, and we are especially looking for boots and socks right now. The FlexSchool community is doing our best to live our values of respect and exploring the interconnectedness of all people.