Our school community congratulates our Principal Elisa Brown the proud recipient of the Terrel H. Bell Award for Outstanding Leadership 2021!!!
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NYCESPA 87th Annual Leadership Conference; Honoring our Principal for her 20 years of leading the Caton School & our Superintendent Clarence Ellis
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This month we honor Ms. Elisa Brown the proud principal of PS 249, The Caton School. We thank you for your dedication and all that you do to support our school community.
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The Caton School is the proud recipient of the Blue Ribbon Lighthouse Award at the Blue Ribbon Schools of Excellence Conference 2022!!
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Our teachers are Incredible (Kinder Super Heros), Colorful (Grade 1 Crayons) and Super Fly (Grade 2 Fly Guy)!!! Our very own DJ Vazquez!!!
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We are so proud of our P.S. 249 artists who were represented in the Brooklyn Borough Arts Festival this week! Exhibit on view at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum through June 11th! ✨
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PS 249 is the proud winner of the America’s Best Schools. This award is presented annually to the nation’s highest performing schools.
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Former alumni, Class of 1991. Adam Eccleston, musician, teacher, radio host came back home to the Caton School to share his many talents, accomplishments and inspiring young children to pursue their dreams!!!
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Blue Ribbon Ceremony consisted of breakout sessions, panel discussions from all Terrel H. Bell Awards recipients and the awards ceremony!!
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During our Vertical Leadership Team each grade shared best practices on chapter 4 of the Fundamental 5 Revisited Book Club: Frequent, Small Group, Purposeful Talk About the Learning.
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Congratulations! 🎉 We made it through 100 days of teaching and we hope this celebration motivates students to come to school every day and work hard. From the Kínder Team
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District 17 Superintendent Lindsay hosted superintendents from Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island and the Chancellor’s team and engaged in instructional rounds with a focus on MTSS.
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Elisa Brown gives her all for the children of
@249Ps
#inBrooklyn
. She embodies what being a great principal is all about: selflessness, hard work and love for her school community.
Congratulations on this well deserved honor!
Our Caton Community came together to celebrate 🪔 Diwali in an amazing assembly program which included a read aloud and many dances!!!
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Our 2-day National Blue Ribbon Celebration was filled with so much joy, laughter and love. We want thank all of those who joined us on this special day!!!
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Congratulations to Master Principal
@elisaprincipal
on her recognition as a phenomenal woman in leadership by
@CITEprograms
. District 17 was there to celebrate & cheer her on. We are proud of the many ways she lifts her school and our city.
PS 249’s Musical Theatre Club performed tonite at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts during the “8th Annual State of the District Address.”
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Our 2024 Multicultural Day was a success! The number of students joining our cultural fashion show keeps growing. We love celebrating the diversity in our school.❤️
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MTTS Block: Thursday is dedicated to math instruction via flexible groupings, targeted instruction, games, I-ready and academic vocabulary!!
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Today we launched our after-school programs from Kinder to Grade 5. Students were engaged in non-fiction text, short video clips and vocabulary. Students turned and talked and discussed; What is the author teaching us? What did this part teach me?
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We are so proud of our graduating class of 2024! Our fifth grade students led research on the Civil Rights movement and synthesized their findings in a presentation delivered to the future fifth graders!
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Administrators from across the country participating in the TC Principals Institute joined us today. They visited classrooms to learn about the components of TC- Reading and Writing curriculum and to see how our school implements them across grades K-5.
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Like a great breakfast… you give our kids a “Great Start,” in life! Staff Breakfast: Happy Teacher and Staff Appreciation Week!!!
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Lab-sites are a place where teachers can practice and improve their pedagogical skills. A place where you receive and give feedback to colleagues. It’s a safe place to practice and develop shared, collaborative practices.
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“Students prefer to be mobile while learning rather than inactive in a traditional chair.” “Giving students flexible seating options, builds ownership of their education, empowering them to make positive choices for their own learning.”
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P.S. 249 has officially kicked off their annual Readathon with a character dress up day! How many books will you read this week? 📚📖📙📘📗📕📗👓🤓
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What a joy to gather as a community and celebrate P.S. 249’s artists at the Art Fair!🎨✨ We all enjoyed a large exhibition of artwork, hands-on activities, and a musical performance!
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P.S. 249 commemorates Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Day by singing in harmony with a 🎤 school wide sing along 🎼 & sending "I appreciate you..." messages to classmates and staff members❣️
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We continue to grow and learn around Achievement Teams. Our goal is to ensure continuous improvement by working collaboratively to dive into data and select high impactful strategies to implement in our classrooms.
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A solar eclipse is like a special show in the sky where the Sun takes a short nap behind the Moon. At PS 249, we celebrated the Solar Eclipse with fun-filled learning activities and stations throughout the school day!!
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The Great Kindness Challenge is dedicated to creating a culture of kindness school wide. Students are encouraged to perform as many kind acts as possible on their Kindess Connect 4! sheet.
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Today our students met author Adam Rubin. He spent the afternoon sharing his journey as a writer and signing copies of one of his books, “The Human Kaboom.” 🤓📚👓📖
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