Brooklyn RISE

This Tuesday goes out to our AMAZING 6th and 7th Grade students who finished taking their ELA State Exams today!! 💪💪💪

What is sweeter than celebrating all their hard work and success!?? Last week we decorated and dip-dyed our state test t-shirts, had a visit from an ice cream truck, and a school wide pep rally 🥳🍦

Swipe to the end to the see the grand opening of “Cafe in the Middle”, a space for students to unwind with friends after testing, and an excerpt from a poem written for our students by our amazing Middle School ELA teacher Ms. Ross! 🥹

Our kiddos are the best and we are so proud of them! 💙

Our kiddos truly do shine like diamonds 🤩🤩🤩

Our 6th and 7th grade jazz band had the opportunity to perform at today and they did such an amazing job!! Most of them have only been playing their instruments since September and they have worked so hard individually and together to prepare for their first performance 🎺🎷🎹🥁🎸

Thank you to for being such an incredible organization and partner - we have loved seeing our kiddos become jazz musicians under your instruction! 🙏💙

🤩🚨Brooklyn RISE SY 26-27 Lottery Alert!!🚨🤩

We can’t wait to make offers tomorrow to our new RISE kiddos and families who will be joining us for the 2026-2027 school year! 🎉

We will be making offers tomorrow to new families at the grade levels we have seats available and creating waitlists for our grade levels that are currently full. 💙

Join us in person at 9 Hanover Place or remotely via the zoom link above! 🤗

This goes out to Mrs. Huang, our AMAZING K-5 Art Teacher and last year’s end of year Art Showcase! 🤩

Checkout the collaborative self-portrait mural - every kiddo and staff member made a self portrait to help the rainbow mural come to life! Swipe all the way to end to check out the awesome backlight room filled with neon creations 😎

We are so lucky at Brooklyn RISE to have such a wonderful elementary art program where kiddos get to express their creativity and cultivate their skills as artists 🧑🏾‍🎨

🚨‼️🗣️Work in Progress: School🗣️‼️🚨

To say this has been a work in progress, is an UNDERSTATEMENT. We have been working for 8+ years to make the dream of having a permanent home for Brooklyn RISE in Sunset Park a reality for our students and families. 🙏💙

After COUNTLESS site visits and meetings with real estate developers, three failed attempts at long term leases, a failed zone change application, rejected CSD relocation requests, two separate temporary school locations, relocating our school 4.5 miles north and still keeping over 80% of our families which required going from 1 school bus to 7, we are BEYOND ecstatic to officially announce that GROUND HAS BROKEN on our forever home school construction site! 🥳📣🙌

It would have been so much easier to give up and just accept the failure and rejection we faced along the way, but just like we teach our students at RISE, it is absolutely essential to persevere through challenges and have relentless determination to achieve your goals. We promised our families that we would build our students a beautiful school and that we would return to Sunset Park and this is HUGE step towards honoring that promise 🥹

This highlights some of the ways Black History Month has been celebrated across Brooklyn RISE this past month! We had morning meetings, read alouds, community circles, projects, bulletin boards and writing pieces dedicated to learning about and celebrating Black history, culture, and identity 🖤❤️💛💚

With all that is going on in the world today, understanding the importance of fighting for equity and justice is critically important, and so we believe Black history should be studied and celebrated throughout the school year, but we also appreciate the dedicated opportunity to really focus our attention as a school community on all the incredible and important contributions, past, present, and future of the Black community! 👩🏾‍🏫👩🏾‍🔧👩🏾‍🔬👩🏾‍🚀

We also celebrated and supported black owned businesses across the month including and two of our very own staff members who run AMAZING small businesses and 🙏🏿🙏🏾🙏🏽

❤️🖤💚