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Park Street Academy Alumni Return to Volunteer

Three Montclair High School students spent the last month of their senior year taking a trip down memory lane. Ava Goldsmith, Allegra Lilienfeld and Tahir Parrish participated in the high school’s Career Internship Program, spending 20 hours a week volunteering at Park Street Academy – the same preschool that they all attended as toddlers. According […]

PARK STREET ACADEMY: Where Emotional Intelligence Is Cultivated

LISA RAPHAEL began Park Street Academy in Montclair in the summer of 1996. “I had years of experience teaching special needs kids and middle and elementary school students, and I wanted to impact young children and give them the best introduction to learning in an environment that supports academic, social, and emotional growth,” she says. […]

Park Street Academy Takes A Pod-Style Approach to Back To School In A Pandemic

At Park Street Academy, a private pre-school and kindergarten in Montclair, parents, students and teachers were excited to be back in the classroom together for the the 2020/2021 school year. Park Street Academy (PSA) utilizes a pod-style learning approach, says Park Street Academy director Lisa Raphael. “We have been able to create safe learning pods of […]

Park Street Academy Students Showcased More Than 400 Works At Pop-Up Exhibit

Park Street Academy (PSA), a private pre-school and kindergarten located in Montclair, NJ, hosted its Senior Art Museum, a special, one-night-only, pop-up museum exhibit on Friday, May 31. The show featured over 400 works created SA students between 4-6 years old, inspired by a diverse set of artists from around the world and based on […]

PHOTO: KIDS SEE THE WORLD AT PARK STREET ACADEMY

Park Street Academy (PSA), a private pre-school and kindergarten located in Montclair, hosted SAM (Senior Art Museum), a special, one-night-only, pop-up museum exhibit on May 18.  This show featured more 400 works created by 40 talented Senior South and Senior North students based on a fully-immersive year-long art curriculum designed by PSA Director and longtime educator, […]

PARK STREET ACADEMY HOSTS 3RD ANNUAL SENIOR ART MUSEUM (SAM) A FINE ART EXHIBIT, FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY

MONTCLAIR, NJ – May 14, 2018:  Park Street Academy (PSA), a private pre-school and kindergarten located in Montclair, NJ, will host SAM (Senior Art Museum), a special, one-night-only, pop-up museum exhibit on May 18, 2018 beginning at 6:30 PM.  This show will feature over 400 works created by 40 talented Senior South and Senior North students […]

PARK STREET ACADEMY EXHIBITS YOUNG ARTISTS’ WORK

Park Street Academy students and families enjoy learning about the art and artists at the second annual Senior Art Museum Fine Art Exhibit earlier this month. Park Street Academy, a private pre-school and kindergarten hosted a one-night-only, pop-up museum exhibit on May 5. The show featured over 400 works by 41 students inspired by great […]

PARK STREET ACADEMY PARTNERS WITH MONTCLAIR B.A.B.Y. TO OFFER ‘KID YOGA’ CLASSES

Park Street Academy (PSA), a private pre-school and kindergarten, and Montclair B.A.B.Y. have collaborated to introduce yoga to PSA students as part of afternoon enrichment programming. Montclair B.A.B.Y. is a center dedicated to supporting the well-being of expectant moms, new parents, and their families. This partnership will help students learn to calm the mind, spark […]

PRESCHOOLER CAN LEARN FROM STUDYING THE FINE ARTS

Did you know that art education – even at the preschool level – is just as important to development as reading and math? In fact, art is a major building block in child development and learning to create and appreciate visual beauty may be even more important to the development of the next generation of […]

MONTCLAIR’S PARK STREET ACADEMY CELEBRATES COMMUNITY HELPERS

Montclair’s Park Street Academy celebrated “Community Helpers” in October by teaching children about the world around them through a variety of special guests and programming. Beginning with a visit from Officer Batelli of the Bloomfield Police Department, children learned about the various ways that police officers help the community in daily life. Officer Batelli, also a PSA […]