KIPP Freedom Elementary School - KIPP NYC

KIPP Freedom Elementary School

Grade Levels

K-2

Principal

Sarah Kuwonu

Email

freedomES@kippnyc.org

Phone Number

(718) 841-6160

Instagram

@kippfreedom_es

Address

2246 Jerome Avenue
Bronx, NY 10453


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About

KIPP Freedom Elementary School

At KIPP Freedom, we forge a pathway of enduring access to opportunity for all students. We cultivate innovative thinkers, skillful communicators, and revolutionary agents of change. By prioritizing student-driven learning experiences, we help students own their quest for knowledge. We lovingly nurture students to be critically-conscious citizens who engage their voices to advocate for themselves and others. We work passionately to afford our students the freedom to choose their paths, their truths, and their futures.

A Day in the Life

Our daily schedule includes 2+ hours of literacy and math instruction. During these blocks, we present our students with engaging material that promotes “cognitive struggle,” which is a fancy way of saying that we make brains sweat! Our literacy blocks include Phonics, Read Aloud, Shared Text (in first grade and above), and Guided Reading. Students are placed in small, targeted groups to receive goal-based coaching and lead rigorous textual analysis discussions. Additionally, students build their math conceptual understanding and number sense in Math Workshop, Problem Solving, and Math Routines. We cultivate independent learners and critical thinkers as students discuss, manipulate, and construct math conjectures. Students also engage in visual arts, science, tae-kwon-do, and ethnic studies. We believe in teaching the whole child, and that starts with explicit personal and social-emotional development. You can expect your “Freedom Fighter” to learn our school’s VOICE values, engage in social-emotional lessons led by our social work team, practice mindfulness with Calm Classroom, and celebrate at our weekly whole-school assembly, Freedom Ring.

 

Voice and Identity

As part of our core curriculum, we offer all students ethnic studies. In this course, students learn about their ethnocultural history and heritage through racially affirming units. Students explore identity, culture, African and Latinx studies, citizenship, and social action. The goal is for our “Freedom Fighters” to leave us after fourth grade as advocates with reverence of the past, knowledge of the present, and empowered to change the future.

A Connected Community

Families are integral partners in the fabric of KIPP Freedom. As a community school, we regularly elicit feedback from families to ensure our instruction, culture, and operations are meeting their needs. We do this through Family VOICE surveys and Village Chats, which are intimate focus group sessions with the principal. Additionally, we host several family events, including monthly Coffee & Conversations, and annual events like the New Family BBQ, Literacy Parade, Black History Month Celebration, and Thanksgiving Potluck. Families can also get involved as field trip chaperones, classroom volunteers, and members of our Freedom Family Association.

 

Testimonials from Our School Communities

What makes me happy is that she’s being nurtured here – the same way that my family would nurture her. KIPP knows what works and they are continuously evolving. Choose KIPP – you won’t regret it!

Cindy
KIPP NYC Parent

As a first-generation Latina, I see myself in my students every day. KIPP gives me the opportunity to collaborate with families and nurture their children to be confident and socially conscious citizens who engage their voices to advocate for self and others.

Niove
KIPP NYC Teacher

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2,500 Alumni Supported*

*represents our support of KIPP NYC Middle School Alumni that attend high schools other than KIPP NYC College Prep and KIPP NYC 8th grade completers that have graduated KIPP NYC College Prep or other high schools within the past six years.