In its day, the building of the Brooklyn Bridge was one of the most dangerous engineering feats undertaken. But to the students of Colleen Moore’s second grade class it is nothing more than child’s play. The students have been busy erecting a re-creation of the legendary landmark in their Stevens Cooperative School’s classroom as part of their school’s progressive learning curriculum.
The independent school, which was founded in 1949, has 179 students in kindergarten through sixth grade and a nursery for 3 and 4-year-olds. In addition to these grades, the school will be adding a seventh grade next year and eighth grade the year after.
Part of the school’s progressive approach to education is that the students are exposed to reality-based problem solving in teaching academic skills.
The school’s director, Zo