New York Harbor School History

The New York Harbor School started out in

Bushwick, Brooklyn, in 2003. In partnership with:

Murray Fisher, Founder

GOOGLE HIM! AWESOME !!

Present

Right now the school will have two underlining projects that all career technical education classes will be focusing on;

1. The Billion Oyster Project

Restoring the oyster reefs by growing our own oysters and placing 1,000,000,000 of them within four reefs in New York Harbor. This will facilitate cleaner water and marine life.

2. The restoration & operation of Schooner Lettie G. Howard

Restoring Lettie G. will provide students with more sail training that isn’t just in New York Harbor but up and down the East Coast. The skills and hands on experience has us doing rigging, engineering, and carpentry.

• Freshmen Year- Students participate in field class.

• Career and Technical Education Programs (CTE)

1. Marine Systems Technology

2. Vessel Operations

3. Professional Diving

4. Ocean Engineering

5. Aquaculture

6. Marine Biology Research

Partnerships

•Semester Program

•Week Long and Day Sails

•Summer SEAfaring Camps

How schools can benefit from partnership with your organization:

• Student get exposed to the maritime industry outside of a classroom setting

• Students can gain Sea-Time, a vital component to receiving ones captain license

• The experience gained from working in a professional setting is invaluable

How your organization can benefit from partnership with schools:

• Publicity! Publicity alone can draw in donors

• You can personally train your own potential employees

• Your ships can be resorted/maintained.

• And who wouldn’t want to work with students like us?

Partnerships

Benefits of collaboration between Schools and Sailing Training

Schooner Pioneer

• Harbor School students participated in Pioneer’s crew training sails. The students acted as passengers to simulate a regular sails for Pioneer’s crew. Students set the sails and participated as a passenger to allow the schooner crew a sense of what sailing would be like for the coming season.

Schooner Pioneer

Pump out and fuel runs?

Sure we can help out!!

This gave students a good understanding of boat operations while helping the Seaport with necessary tasks.

Everyone has to do it….

Schooner Pioneer We can move that……

At the end of Pioneer’s sailing season, Harbor school students helped out the crew by taking down the sails and storing them for the winter.

Restoration & Operation of Lettie G. Howard

One amazing 1893 Gloucester fishing schooner

Lettie G. Howard

• Lettie is used by the South Street Seaport as a Sailing School Vessel.

• She engages students in marine science and marine tech classes.

• She has the ability to extend the range of the Harbor School to outside New York Harbor and can carry 12 students with her.

CTE Working to get Lettie’s Stability letter and Certificate of Inspection back!

Students use what they learn in the classroom and apply it to the preparation for inspections. This is the Ideal platform for students to demonstrate their knowledge and apply it.

Saturday Work Day

Every Saturday students from the New York Harbor School go to the seaport at 0900 to take part of the volunteer work day. A range from 10 to 20 kids show up every week to spend a whole day preparing Lettie to be fit to sail again.

East Coast Schools

• Maritime Academy Charter High School (Philadelphia, Pa)

• Maritime Industries Academy (Baltimore, MD )

• Maritime Science and Technology High School (Miami, Fl)

• New York Harbor School (New York, NY)

• The Maritime Academy of Science and Technology (Highlands, NJ)

• Palm Beach Maritime Academy (Lantana, FL )

• South Broward High School (Hollywood, FL )

• Delaware Military Academy (Wilmington, Del )

• West Ashley High School (Charleston, SC )

East Coast Schools

• Riviera Beach Maritime Academy (Riviera Beach, FL)

• Dixon High School (Holly Ridge, NC)

• Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science (Manahawkin, NJ )

• Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School (Oak Bluffs, MA)

• Admiral Farragut Academy (St Petersburg, FL)

• The Sound School (New Haven, CT)

• The Marine Magnet High School of Southeastern Connecticut

• Bridgeport Regional Aqua Culture Science & Technology Education Center( Bridgeport, CT )

Great Lakes Region Schools

• Western New York Maritime Charter School (Buffalo, NY )

• Bay front Center for Maritime Studies (Erie, Pa )

• The Maritime Academy of Toledo (Toledo OH )

West Coast Schools

• Mar Vista High School (Imperial Beach, CA)

• Grant Maritime Technologies High School (Sacramento, CA )

• International Trade Education Programs Inc. (Glendale, CA)

• Port of Los Angeles High School (San Pedro, CA )

• Banning High School (Wilmington CA)

• Ballard Maritime Academy (Seattle WA )

• Harbor High School (Aberdeen, WA )

There are many up and coming maritime focused public schools. Ocean Classroom does not have the capacity to

serve these hundreds of students.

Your partnership with these schools can improve their curriculum and provide more students with a wider

range of opportunities.

Collaborating makes sense! - Kings Point Sailing Foundation- Hornblower cruises – NY Water Taxi –

Statue Cruises - New York City Department of Transportation– Oceana- American Bureau of shipping- US Department of Interior– Manhattan Sailing Club – Halcyon Sailing – The Durst Organization- US Coast Guard– Fisher Island Oysters– Chelsea Clocks – North Sails - Brooklyn Navy Yard- SUNY Maritime- Rocking the Boat- Clearwater- Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance- New York City Fire Department- GMD Ship Yard- River Keeper Foundation- National Oceanic and Atmosphere Admiration - Good Shepard's- American Bureau of shipping- US Merchant Marine Academy- Village Community Boat House- Governor’s Island Alliance- NY/NJ Sandy Hook Pilots- Dyckman Marina- Hudson River Park Trust- Liberty Landing Marina- The Marine Manufacture Association- American Boat Yacht Council- New York State Parks recreation- Caddels Ship Yard- Kirby Towing- McAlister Towing- Vann Brothers Towing- Schooner Inc.- and counting ….

A. Team up with an existing maritime high school.

B. Team up with a regular high school and collaborate ideas.

C. START FROM SCRATCH (Good Luck !)

CTE: Career and Technical Education (A.K.A. Vocational and Technical Education)

Goals of CTE include: • preparing participants for both postsecondary education AND

employment.

• developing a workforce with the academic and vocational skills needed to compete successfully in a world market.

• allowing students to explore career options and develop the skills they will need both in school and in the workplace.

• meeting students' different learning styles by using a combination of classroom instruction, hands-on-laboratory work, and on-the-job training

Opening New Schools: Examples Charter or Public School in New York City

• http://schools.nyc.gov/community/newschools/default.htm

Public School in Chicago

• http://www.cps.edu/NEWSCHOOLS/Pages/Process.aspx

Charter School in California

• http://www.calcharters.org/starting/

• http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/cs/re/csabout.asp

Funding CTE Schools: Examples VTEA Funding – Carl D. Perkins Grant • Provides Federal funds for vocational-technical programs for both youth and adults.

• Administered by the US Department of Education Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE)

• Majority of funds are awarded as grants to state education agencies.

• Uses of funds include: • occupationally-relevant equipment, • vocational curriculum materials, • materials for learning labs, • curriculum development or modification, • staff development, • career counseling and guidance activities, • efforts for academic-vocational integration, • supplemental services for special populations, • hiring vocational staff

http://www2.ed.gov/offices/OVAE/CTE/perkins.html

Funding CTE Schools: Examples New Schools Venture Fund

• Supports the growth of entrepreneurial organizations that improve education in specific low-income communities, particularly via a thriving sector of high-performing public charter schools.

• Operating in: • Washington, DC,

• Newark, NJ,

• Boston, MA

• Oakland, CA.

http://www.newschools.org/model

Alternative Teacher Certification • More quickly obtain a teaching license or credential without going

through the traditional path to certification in your state

• Allows people who have worked in business and industry to become CTE teachers in their fields without having to earn an education degree or pass traditional teacher certification exams

• All 50 states and the District of Columbia offer some form of alternative teacher certification

• Programs have grown in recent years due to teacher shortages and policies under the No Child Left Behind Act

Alternative Teacher Certification National Association for Alternative Certification (NAAC)

• professional organization that advocates for standards-driven nontraditional educator preparation leading to effective school staffing.

• reviews trends and issues to inform practices and policies relevant to recruitment, preparation, certification, support, assessment, and retention of high-performing educators.

http://www.alt-teachercert.org/

Alternative Teacher Certification Center for Career Changers to the Classroom • state-by-state information

• basic requirements for licensure to teach in the state,

• the different pathways with which you can become certified to teach in the state, and

• lists of different certification areas in each state

http://www.ccteach.org/teaching-certification

Alternative Teacher Certification Teach-Now • A clearinghouse for information about alternative certification routes.

• Addresses the growing need for an out-of-the-box, technology-based solution for training teachers.

• Certification Program: • Teaching certificate from Washington, DC

• $6000 tuition

• 9 months to complete

• Cohorts start every month

• Program is completed where you are

www.teach-now.com

Alternative Teacher Certification American Board • A non-profit organization established by the U.S. Department of

Education and dedicated to building strong communities through preparing, certifying, and supporting teachers.

• State approved route to full teacher certification in: Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee & Utah

http://abcte.org/

Thank You Tall Ships of America for letting us represent our school

THINKING ABOUT OUR CLASSMATES IN NEW YORK ON ICE-BREAKING DUTY