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Salvadori students learn by doing. They build bridges, experiment with forces, create models, map neighborhoods and design future cities; they write persuasively, debate proposals and present effectively. Salvadori teachers incorporate hands-on projects focused on the designed/built world that deepen content learning, span disciplines and meet rigorous curriculum standards. Salvadori architect-educators mentor teachers on-site, bringing excitement to classrooms and making real-world connections to math, science, history, language arts and art lessons on a daily basis.

• Salvadori On-Site Program (our core program)
• Residency Program
• New Century High School Initiative (our newest program)
• Community: Past, Present, Future (after-school program)
• Systems Thinking Partnership (nationwide consortium)
• Charrette (culminating design challenge for students)
• The Graduates: All Participating Salvadori Schools from 1994 to Present

Salvadori On-Site Program (SOSP)

Each year, four to six schools in economically disadvantaged areas of New York City are selected to participate in this program for a renewable two-year period. Teachers from each school attend a two-week Summer Staff Development Institute to become familiar with the Center's pedagogy and to explore topics and themes surrounding the built environment. Our architect-educators visit schools weekly during the school year, working side-by-side with classroom teachers and participating in weekly planning sessions. We help them correlate built-environment hands-on projects and activities with required curriculum topics.

A typical year in the life of a Salvadori classroom might include: hands-on investigations of tension and compression, behind-the-scenes trips to landmarked structures like the Chrysler and Woolworth buildings, bridge "scavenger hunts" across the Brooklyn Bridge and in Central Park, mapping and redesigning the local neighborhood using Sanborn maps, designing dream houses for the climate and customs of a far-off culture, constructing life-sized chairs of corrugated cardboard or scaled replicas of butterflies and dragonflies. Some of our schools hold architecture fairs or exhibitions to display the year's achievements; others participate in citywide or regional competitions.

Teachers have the opportunity to meet other program participants at networking workshops, and join an online community exploring the benefits and challenges of “doing” Salvadori. Each member of the core teaching team receives a set of educational materials, a small sum for consumables and has access to our book and video libraries. After two years of intensive support, SMSP schools become “graduates.” Having gained a solid foundation, they are ready to implement Salvadori projects independently.

Participating Schools 2004-2005

District 1, Manhattan

Anthony Corlears JHS 56, Lower Eastside

1996-

District 2, Manhattan

Ella Baker School, Lenox Hill
2001-

 

District 8, Bronx

JHS 131 - Albert Einstein Intermediate School, Soundview

2004-

Formerly District 30, Queens

The Renaissance Charter School, Jackson Heights
1998-present

To Apply

Every spring we send out Requests for Proposals (RFPs) to approximately 25 public middle schools in New York City. Four to six SOSP schools are selected from the respondents. If your school can demonstrate a commitment to project-based learning (and the extended class periods required to do it) you may be eligible to be an SOSP school. Participating schools pay a significantly reduced fee for our full complement of services. Personnel at the district or school level are welcome to contact us about the application process for the upcoming school year.

Residency Program

The Residency Program provides opportunities for interested non-SOSP schools or organizations to pick and choose particular services, ranging from a single workshop to weekly visits during the school day or an after-school program.

To Apply

New Century High School Initiative (NCHSI)

NCHSI is an initiative of New York City's Department of Education, undertaken with major financial support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the Open Society Institute, and is managed principally by New Visions for Public Schools to transform large comprehensive high schools into campuses  of effective small schools that help students meet high standards of academic and personal success.

The Salvadori Center has been a founding partner in the establishment of three New Century High Schools in the Bronx:

Pablo Neruda Academy for Architecture and World Studies at Stevenson High School, Parkchester

Sept. 2003-

East Bronx Academy for the Future at Truman High School, Baychester

Sept. 2004-

West Bronx Academy for the Future at Roosevelt High School, Fordham

Sept. 2004 -

After School Programs

Community: Past, Present, Future

This six-year series, completed in 2004, was developed as part of the 21st Century Learning Program's partnership with District 5. It took Harlem middle-schoolers on a three-year exploration of their neighborhood. In its first year, sixth-graders gained a foundation in Harlem's rich history, starting with Harlem's first governor in 1658 and proceeding through the Harlem Renaissance and the Civil Rights Movement. As seventh graders, students explored what makes Harlem unique and dynamic. In their final year of participation as eighth graders, they applied their knowledge of Harlem's past and present to envision its future.

Participating Schools 2003-2004

District 5, Manhattan

IS 172/286 and Powell Middle School for Law and Social Justice, Harlem
(formerly Law & Peace Academy JHS 43)
1997-2004

Roberto Clemente IS 195, Harlem
2000-2004

Henry Highland Garnet IS 275, Harlem
1998-2004

 

District 12, Bronx

Business Sch for Entrepreneurial Studies IS 216, Hunt's Point

2004-

Math, Sci & Tech Through Art Sch IS 318,

West Farms

2004- 

Sch of Higher Expectations PS/MS 66, Morrisania

2004-  

To Apply

Systems Thinking Partnership

With support from the Waters Foundation, we joined a nationwide consortium of schools and educators seeking to apply a Systems Thinking model in the classroom. Systems Thinking sees the world as a collection of relationships and processes. In an educational setting, this model encourages teachers to think and teach across disciplines and engages students in articulating interrelationships by making dynamic models of their world. For example, an activity might consist of graphing the influence of the Brooklyn Bridge on the flow of traffic, industry, people and ideas within New York City. To learn more, click on the Waters Foundation website at www.watersfoundation.org.

Participating Schools 2004-2005

District 23, Brooklyn

Thelma J. Hamilton JHS 275, Brownsville
1994-present

Lew Wallace PS/MS 284, Brownsville
1996-present

Charrette

 

"Charrette 2004 reminded me why I chose the path I did towards my profession. I saw myself in the eyes of the intelligent and motivated young people who took part in this wonderful event. Teamwork and creativity at its best. Can't wait till next year."

-Paul Lucien, P.E., Port Authority of NY and NJ,

Engineering/Architecture Design Division

Our design challenge for kids, "Charrette," gathers students from all over the city for a day of intensive teamwork. Working alongside professional architects and engineers, they conceptualize, design, build and present models. The challenges vary year to year, ranging fromcreating futuristic societies to redesigning a typical city block.

 

"Memorials & Monuments" (2004), featured in AIA's e-Oculus

"Crossing the Hudson" (2003) Photo Gallery

How to "Charrette" (2000)

SALVADORI PROGRAM SCHOOLS

1994-2004

 

District 1, Manhattan 1996- Anthony Corlears JHS 56, Lower Eastside District 2, Manhattan 2001- Ella Baker School, Lenox Hill District 3, Manhattan 1994-95 The Center School, Upper West Side 1994-96 Crossroad School, Manhattan Valley 1995-96 Lincoln Academy PS 191, Upper West Side District 4, Manhattan 1995-97 Zora Neale Hurston Academy, East Harlem District 5, Manhattan 1997-2003 Powell IS 172 for Law & Social Justice, Harlem 1998-2004 Henry Highland Garnet IS 275, Harlem 2000-2004 Roberto Clemente IS 195, Harlem District 6, Manhattan 1997-98 Mirabal Sisters IS 90, Washington Heights 1997-98 Edward W. Stitt IS 164, Washington Heights 1996-99 W. Haywood Burns PS/IS 176, Inwood 1994-96 Salome Urena Middle Acad. IS 218, Inwood District 7, Bronx 1998-01 Rafael Cordero y Molina IS 184, South Bronx 1999-2004 Mario Salvadori Sch. for Arch.& Eng., South Bx District 8, Bronx 1998-00 Middle Sch. for Law & Eng. IS 74, Hunts Point Currently, Chancellor's District District 8, Bronx 2004- Albert Einstein   IS 131, Soundview   1999--01 Piagentini & Jones IS 192, Throgs Neck   District 9, Bronx 1997-98 Roberto Clemente CIS 166, Morrisania   District 10, Bronx 1996-00 Sheila Mencher PS/MS 95, Van Cortlandt

District 12, Bronx 2004- Business Sch for Entrepreneurial Studies IS 216, Hunt's Point   2004- Math, Sci & Tech Through Art Sch IS 318, West Farms   2004- Sch of Higher Expectations PS/MS 66, Morrisania   District 13, Brooklyn 1996-98 Edmonds Learning Center JHS 113, Fort Greene District 17, Brooklyn 1995-99 Walt Whitman IS 246, East Flatbush Currently, Chancellor's District District 20, Brooklyn 1995-97, 03- John J. Pershing IS 220, Sunset Park 1996-97 Ditmas IS 62, Borough Park 1999-02 Dyker Heights IS 201, Bay Ridge District 23, Brooklyn 1994-96, 1997-98, 2000- Thelma J. Hamilton JHS 275, Brownsville 1996-97, 2000- Lew Wallace PS/MS 284, Brownsville District 31, Staten Island 1998-00 Henry M. Boehm PS 55 2001-2003 Anning S. Prall IS 27 2002-2003 Rocco Laurie IS 72 High Schools 2004- Bronx Academy for the Future-East and West, Bronx   1998- The Renaissance Charter School, Jackson Heights, Queens   2003- Pablo Neruda Academy for Architecture and World Studies, Bronx   2004- Xaverian High School, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn New York State 2002- Dobbs Ferry Middle School (Dobbs Ferry) 2002- Newfield Middle School (Newfield) 2001- John F. Kennedy Magnet School (Port Chester)