About Us

PS/IS 192, The Magnet School for Math and Science Inquiry is the school of character and intelligence.  At PS/IS 192, each student is special and precious.  Our school mission is to use every minute for every child to excel as a student and as a citizen. 

We will use student work and data to drive focused individualized instruction.

We will maintain a focused implementation of the workshop model in reading, writing, and math.

We will organize our learning environment to support our best teaching practices and student achievement. 

We will use investigative methods to encourage inquiry-based learning in Math and Science. 

Students at PS/IS 192: 

Engage: Learner has a need to know, therefore, defines questions, issues or problems that relate to his/her world.

Explore: Learner gathers, organizes, interprets, analyzes, and evaluates data.

Explain: Learner clarifies understandings discovered, reaches conclusions or generalizations and communicates in varying modes and forms.

Elaborate: Learner applies these conclusions or generalizations to solve problems, make decisions, perform tasks, resolve convicts or make meaning. 

Evaluate: An on-going diagnostic process that allows the teacher to determine if the learner has attained understanding of concepts and knowledge. 

When conducting inquiry based learning and working on our STEAM projects, we follow the Engineering Design Process in which we: 

Ask: Students as questions that will help them reach their goal and think about their constraints.

Imagine: Students brainstorm ideas and choose the best one.

Plan: Students sketch their idea and list the materials they will need.

Create: Students create a prototype of their idea and test to see if it works.

Improve: Students reflect on ways to make improvements and make changes to their original idea.