Knowing Maple Street by Heart
“I suppose that moment had been gaining on us secretly, like a new piece of music played while you sleep. One day you hear it - strange song yet one you
know by heart.” Leif Enger, Peace Like A River Maple Street is always creating original finger paintings, marker drawings, stories, dances, [...]

In September 2010, the doors of the Lefferts Gardens Charter School will swing wide, bringing children in the neighborhood — and the entire borough — a new elementary and middle school focusing on environmental sciences in partnership with two local institutions: the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the Prospect Park Zoo.)
At least, that’s the vision of [...]

Each edition of The Rag, we’ll sit down with a new Maple Street School family. In December, our news team posed some hard-hitting questions to Susan Boyle and Benton Brown, whose daughter Nora is downstairs in the Rocks class. Here are their answers:
*** BENTON ***
Born and raised: Nashville, Tennessee
Current neighborhood: Crown Heights
Neighborhood before that: Clinton [...]

Be imaginative. Think creatively. That is the sort of edifying guidance that Siobhan O’Neill is employing — both in rhetoric and in action — to mobilize Maple Street School parents and alumni to accomplish one of the most important missions of the school year — producing the annual gala.
O’Neill, mom of Raphael Alder-O’Neill (3s) and [...]

WHO WE ARE At the beginning of the school year, Maple Street School families filled out a demographics survey covering such wide-ranging topics as where we live to how much we earn.
The results of those surveys gives us all a look into who we are as a school and as a community. [...]

JANUARY
Wednesday, Jan. 9 - Board Meeting
Monday, Jan. 21 - School Closed for MLK Day
Monday, Jan. 28 - [...]

Francesca: Jackie, I’m remembering a funny conversation we had this summer as I was picking Diego up from camp. I was marveling at how you could spend the whole day with our kids in a pale blue linen skirt suit and delicate necklace and still look elegant with all wardrobe pieces intact! [...]

Francesca: Cecile, Keeper of the Gate (and my sanity as I walk through that gate), I can’t remember a time when our family was not welcomed by your smiling face upon entering the Maple Street School. Many a morning has been spent lingering by your desk as you have helped coax my boys out [...]

Francesca: There is a phrase in French that always comes to mind when I see you: elle est a l’aise dans son peau. It means, literally, that she is comfortable in her skin. It’s not a phrase used with people who are still struggling with who they are and what they are doing. [...]

Francesca: Ann-Marie, let me be totally honest here. The driving force behind my desire to do these staff interviews was to let you know just how invaluable you’re presence at the Maple Street School is to countless families, mine being at the top of the list. Allow me to stand on a soapbox for [...]