Our Mission
PS 20 is a multicultural and multilingual community of teachers, students, and families who work collaboratively to create a safe, respectful, and supportive learning environment that fosters and cultivates independence, creativity, curiosity, and rigor.
Our Values
PS 20 Anna Silver School is dedicated to:
Through implementation of the above, our children will compete not only regionally and nationally, but on a global level as well. Knowing that our children are unique, we look to insure that all children realize their full academic and social potential.
- Meeting the ever-changing needs of our school community through a comprehensive educational process.
- A rigorous school-wide curriculum, project-based instruction, and the infusion of arts and technology.
- Maintaining high standards for academic achievement and responsible behavior.
- Responding to the expressed needs and concerns of students, parents and all community members.
- Promoting school harmony and understanding, as well as personal morals and values, by embracing our great cultural diversity.
- Creating opportunities to develop interpersonal relationships and a conflict- resolution process.
Through implementation of the above, our children will compete not only regionally and nationally, but on a global level as well. Knowing that our children are unique, we look to insure that all children realize their full academic and social potential.
New York City's waterways are an important teaching tool. Above, a group of dual language students learn about pulleys and other simple machines during a trip to South Street Seaport. The children looked at maps, practiced locating things, finding latitude and longitude, and used a compass to locate sites according to the cardinal and intermediate directions. Photo by Emily Receveur.