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History Department Meet the dedicated staff members at Central Park East High School who are committed to providing a nurturing and enriching educational environment for all students. Viviane Puhalovic History Teacher vpuhalovic@schools.nyc.gov Anne Scotti History Teacher ascotti3@schools.nyc.gov Valerie Wald History Teacher vwald@schools.nyc.gov Taylor Quattrocchi History Teacher tquattrocchi@schools.nyc.gov Laura Smykla History Teacher lsmykla@schools.nyc.gov

CPEHS Academic Integrity Policy At CPEHS, we believe that academic integrity is a process students learn over time with the support of their families and educators. Students make mistakes, and when they do, we believe they can be teachable moments. We always encourage students and teachers to maintain active and ongoing communication, and we especially urge students to reach out to their teachers when they struggle with assignments and/or due dates. Just as we do with other infractions, we believe in fair and restorative approaches to handling issues of academic integrity. If, however, a student knowingly, consistently, and/or egregiously violates our academic integrity policy, there will be disciplinary consequences. The following document outlines the parameters of our newly implemented academic integrity expectations as well as protocols for addressing violations when necessary. What is Academic Dishonesty: Cheating is the unauthorized use or attempted use of material, information, notes, study aids, devices or communication during an academic exercise*. What Qualifies as Plagiarism: Plagiarism is the act of presenting another person’s ideas, research or writing as your own* *From CUNY Academic Integrity Policy Procedures: All (minor and major) academic integrity violations will be tracked school-wide using a secure Google form and spreadsheet. For students who commit multiple infractions in separate classes, those infractions will be cumulative Major vs. Minor Infractions Minor infractions: Copying homework or classwork from a classmate. Handing in homework answers found on the internet without attribution. Having a classmate complete your homework. Giving your classmate answers without having worked together on the assignment. Compensating a classmate to complete your homework. Doing online homework for someone else (i.e. Delta Math, Membean) Major infractions: Copying full sentences, paragraphs, or complete essays from the internet and presenting them as your own without attribution. Copying digital projects that pre-exist on the internet and presenting them as your own without attribution. Having a “cheat-sheet” in your possession during an in-class quiz or exam. Using an electronic device during a quiz or exam. Copying/giving answers from/to a classmate during a quiz or an exam. Giving a classmate information about a test (e.g., questions) Student(s) accessing testing materials not meant to be accessed by student(s), and using or distributing materials, to gain an unfair advantage on a quiz or exam. Steps for Addressing Minor Academic Integrity Infractions: Before any other action is taken, ask to meet with the student privately to discuss the situation and gather information. Teachers may not accuse the student of being dishonest without meeting with the student first to gather information. For the first minor infraction, students will be referred to the guidance counselor for a guidance conference to discuss available academic supports. For first/second minor infractions, students will have three days to fix their mistake by redoing the assignment with integrity without penalty. Students deserve to be treated as young adults and for the first two minor (homework/classwork) infractions, the students’ family will not be contacted. For third minor infractions, teachers may deduct between 5% - 30% of points. Also, upon the third minor infraction, families will be notified and a guidance conference will be scheduled by the teacher or an administrator. For any further minor infractions, the student will receive a zero on the assignment and school administration may penalize the student as per the disciplinary procedures set forth in the DOE’s Citywide Behavioral Expectations, which include a principal’s suspension. Steps for Addressing Major Academic Integrity Infractions: Before any other action is taken, ask to meet with the student privately to discuss the situation and gather information. Teachers may not accuse the student of being dishonest without meeting with the student first to gather information. For the first major infraction, students will be allowed three (3) days to re-do the assignment and turn it back in without penalty. Students will also be assigned to a guidance conference, and families will be contacted. If a second major infraction occurs, teachers may deduct between 5%-30% of points; and students will again have three days to re-submit the assignment. If a third major infraction occurs, the student will receive a zero on the assignment and school administration may penalize the student as per the disciplinary procedures set forth in the DOE’s Citywide Behavioral Expectations, which include a principal’s suspension.

Administration Meet the dedicated staff members at Central Park East High School who are committed to providing a nurturing and enriching educational environment for all students. Mayra Segura Principal mmessi@schools.nyc.gov Candice Ligator Asst Principal, Administration cligator@schools.nyc.gov Megan Roberson Asst Principal, Supervision mroberson@schools.nyc.gov

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English Department Meet the dedicated staff members at Central Park East High School who are committed to providing a nurturing and enriching educational environment for all students. Sean Flanagan English Teacher sflanagan6@schools.nyc.gov Wendy Lehman English Teacher wlehman@schools.nyc.gov Michelle Rosenberg English Teacher mrosenberg13@schools.nyc.gov Bruce Griffith Librarian bgriffith2@schools.nyc.gov Laura Lynch English Teacher llynch14@schools.nyc.gov Amanda Torres English Teacher atorres50@schools.nyc.gov

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Physical Aggression and/or Bullying Policy Below are the school’s automatic disciplinary actions for students who engage in or are the aggressor in a physical fight, or engage in online or in-person bullying, harassment, and/or intimidation: An automatic 5 day Principal Suspension or possibly a lengthier Superintendent’s Suspension depending on the severity of the fight or incident Required Mediation facilitated by Administration Loss of outside lunch privilege for the remainder of a students’ time at our school Loss of field trip privileges for the remainder of a students’ time at our school. This includes college trips, the senior weekend overnight trip, and any other field trip scheduled by a teacher or the school Loss of privilege to spectate at or participate in extracurricular activities, such as, but not limited to, improv theater, dance, digital media, student government, peer leading, non-PSAL and PSAL sports and teams Loss of privilege to participate in special school events, such as, but not limited to school dances, pep rallies, talent shows, awards ceremonies, student performances, prom and graduation We do not want to take these privileges away, but if you choose to engage in an inappropriate and/or aggressive manner with another student you will be held accountable for making that choice. If you are in a conflict with a peer, please reach out to your guidance counselor, or an administrator, who can assist you in resolving the conflict in an appropriate and respectful manner. Additionally, it will not matter what grade you are in, or how close to graduation you may be, if you fight on or off of school grounds during the school day or at dismissal, these restrictions will be in place for the remainder of your time as a student at our school, or until they have been reinstated by school administration.

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Mission Statement The Central Park East High School staff believes that each student has the potential for greatness. We also believe that our students' academic and overall success starts with their engagement and transformation in our classrooms. Here at CPEHS, we nurture their development through authentic collaboration between teachers, parents, and the community to inspire and to establish lifelong learning in all our students.

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College Now (BMCC & Baruch) College Now is a free program designed to prepare New York City's public high school students for the next big thing—college. CPEHS has teamed up with one of the City University of New York (CUNY) colleges to create a College Now partnership. The program offers eligible students a number of ways to improve their high school performance and get a jumpstart on college. College Now offers many activities and opportunities, such as, academic courses, campus-based tours and cultural events, such as theater or dance performances, and even exclusive scholarship offers. College Access: Research & Action (CARA) CARA is a nonprofit organization working to increase the college enrollment of low-income students. By bringing together all the community members who benefit from increased college enrollment─students, colleges, employers, and community leaders─CARA is working to ensure that every student who can make it in college makes it to college. Working closely with the high school principal, counselors, and teachers, the CARA program and classroom curriculum makes it possible for all students in grades 9-12 to plan for and make a successful transition to college or other post-secondary options. Futures & Options: Career Essentials Futures and Options empowers New York City's youth, particularly youth of color and students from historically underrepresented communities, to acquire transferable professional skills, pursue higher education, and successfully compete in a global 21st century economy. They collaborate with New York City employers to provide transformative career development opportunities to young people, enabling them to succeed in college and inspiring them to pursue meaningful careers. Students in the Futures and Options Career Essentials Program participate in 13 supervised workshops that focus on communication, presentation and workplace etiquette skills. Futures & Options: Internship Program The Futures & Options Internship Program provides paid, mentored internships and career readiness workshops to high school juniors and seniors. Students acquire hands-on experience, gain entry to small businesses, nonprofits, government agencies and multinational corporations and earn needed money. There are five integral components to the Futures and Options Internship Program, which ensure that the internship is rewarding for the intern as well as the partnering business. The five components are the student recruitment and application process, intern placement, career readiness workshops and monitoring, and collaboration with school staff and mentors/supervisors. Minds Matter Minds Matter's mission to bring bright and motivated high school students from low-income families together with dedicated mentors to achieve academic excellence and expand educational horizons is met through three separate programs: the Sophomore Program, the Junior Program, and the Senior Program. The Sophomore Program curriculum develops the students' skills in key academic and leadership areas. Each student is matched with two mentors with whom he/she meets weekly during the school year for 4-hour mentoring sessions. The unique curriculum focuses on writing and critical thinking, public speaking, debate and preparation for the PSAT exam. The yearlong experience provides a foundation for the final component of the Sophomore Program, the summer college preparation program. During the school year, students apply to academically intensive summer programs at colleges, universities and prep schools throughout the United States, which they attend as rising juniors. Students in the Junior Program continue to work with their mentors to refine their writing, oral presentation, and interviewing skills. Juniors also attend an intensive, 15-week SAT prep course, which ensures they are able to realize their dream of pursuing higher education. Juniors who successfully complete the program are given the opportunity to attend domestic summer college preparation programs as well as programs abroad, in countries including Costa Rica, Japan, and Spain. The Senior Program guides students through the college application process, including school selection, interviews and financial aid. In addition the program provides workshops on how to adapt to college life. At the end of the year, Minds Matter provides seniors with a performance-based stipend of up to $2,000 to pay for tuition, books, and/or computers. Minds Matter graduates have attended universities including University of Colorado, University of California, Yale, and dozens of other establishments across the country. SEO Scholars Program SEO Scholars help students seize every opportunity by providing a rigorous academic foundation as part of their comprehensive college access, persistence, and success program. In high school, SEO Scholars receive the equivalent of 2.5 years of additional English and 1.5 years of additional math instruction to close the academic and opportunity gap and graduate high school with the skills necessary to tackle college with confidence. Year after year, SEO Scholars exceed or match the average SAT scores of all college-bound seniors nationally. But it doesn’t end there. In their senior year, they assist the SEO Scholars with the college application and financial aid process, providing individualized support to help each student find their perfect fit. Once they are enrolled in college, they continue to provide academic advising, one-on-one psycho-social support, and personalized career development to help their Scholars meet their academic and professional goals and succeed in life. As a result, SEO Scholars graduate college ready to enter the working world or pursue higher education. The Opportunity Network Program The Opportunity Network is a unique, six-year career development program for motivated, high-performing high school students looking to: Get exposure to over twenty-five career tracks Make personal connections with influential executives and professionals Apply to competitive colleges Build their resumes through paid internships or special enrichment opportunities Develop a lifelong network leading to high-level positions and rewarding careers Heckscher Scholars Program Heckscher Scholars is a multi-dimensional college access program for students from under-resourced public high schools housed at the Heckscher Foundation for Children headquarters in New York City. It provides individualized academic guidance, college and financial aid counseling, and a multitude of opportunities and support to students from disadvantaged communities. Heckscher Scholars guides its students towards the greatest path out of poverty, a college education, opening doors to competitive four-year private colleges and a higher education that will have a catalytic impact on their future. Heckscher Scholars provides a deeply personalized experience for each student through its academic and college access support. Heckscher Scholars’ staff develop strong and long-lasting relationships with the students, which helps them achieve academic success. Heckscher Scholars does not provide scholarships but does provide financial and emotional support to students and their families as individual needs arise. Heckscher Scholars helps all of its scholars find internships or college classes the summer before their senior year, and most experience overseas travel through our partnership with Global Glimpse. Mt. Sinai Medical Center MedDOCS (Medical Discovery of Careers) Program The Students for Equal Opportunity in Medicine (SEOM) at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai present MedDOCs, a nine-week program held twice each year in the fall and spring. Beginning in 2015, there will be 3 separate curricula: the fall session will focus on the cardiovascular system (heart), the spring session will focus on the pulmonary system (lungs), and the summer sessions will focus on the brain (neurology). Accordingly, students will be able to participate in all three (3) sessions. Through lectures, small group activities, and lab-like experiences, students will learn the anatomy and physiology of the heart/lungs, participate in discussions about diseases of the heart/lungs, cardiovascular/pulmonary system, and the central nervous system; and see and touch real human hearts/lungs/brains. They also have the opportunity to use a human simulator and learn some emergency medical techniques. The Bridge Golf Foundation Program The Bridge Golf Foundation (BGF) operates an intensive, year-round, multi-year golf and education program for young men of color. Our mission is to help our young men close gaps in achievement, learning and opportunity; to improve their college readiness; and to help them graduate from college and move into the workforce. During the school year, students from 9th through 12th grade attend three-hour sessions after every school day at our Learning Center, which contains state-of-the-art golf equipment and technology, classrooms, and one-on-one tutoring spaces. In addition to a dedicated tutoring and character education staff that works in small groups and one-on-one as necessary, our Foundation provides intensive standardized test prep in partnership with a proven outside tutoring organization. BGF will also advise our students and families on college and post-secondary selection, help organize the application process, and assist in preparing the complex financial component of college applications, college essays, and other elements of the common application. Our staff consists of five academic tutors and four golf professionals, resulting in extraordinary individualized attention. We collaborate with our young men’s teachers to maximize the effectiveness of our tutoring. Our intensive six-week summer program consists of all-day excursions to area golf courses, where practice is supplemented by daily academic tutoring. Additionally, juniors and select sophomores will spend two weeks at The Bridge in Eastern Long Island for a paid internship/residency that involves hands-on training in the golf industry and exposure to the area’s rich cultural opportunities. The Bridge is one of the nation’s premier private golf clubs, built and operated for the last 20 years by the founders and co-executive directors of BGF. Every young man in our program is also assigned a mentor. Our volunteer mentors work in a variety of fields. They share a love of golf and a strong desire to help our young men succeed. These mentor-mentee relationships complement the work of our tutors and golf instructors. After our young men enter college, we continue to mentor and support them. Girls Incorporated of New York City Girls, Inc. is a program for girls that offers classes in Economic Literacy, Media Literacy, Operation SMART, Preventing Adolescent Pregnancy and Project BOLD. The motto of this organization is that all girls are strong, smart, and bold. The Brotherhood/Sister Sol of New York City The Brotherhood/Sister Sol’s Rites of Passage (ROP) Program’s goal is to empower youth through discovery and discussion of history, culture, social problems, and the political forces surrounding them. They establish partnerships with public secondary schools to develop gender-specific (Brotherhood or Sister Sol) chapters, each consisting of 10 to 18 youth members and two adult Chapter Leaders. The Chapter Leaders facilitate weekly sessions and serve as mentors, supporters, confidantes, counselors, teachers, and more. They build trusting relationships and offer guidance to the chapter members as they face the challenges of young adulthood. During the intensive four year ROP process, members learn critical thinking and global awareness skills through leadership development, drug awareness, conflict resolution, political education, community service, and other activities. Achievement Mentoring The Achievement Mentoring Program [also known as Behavioral Monitoring & Reinforcement Program (BMRP)] is a school-based prevention and intervention program for grades 4 through 11 that has been proven to reduce problem behaviors, improve academics, and reduce drug and alcohol use. Achievement Mentoring contributes to a school environment that allows students to realize that their actions can bring about desired consequences and reinforces this belief by eliciting participation from teachers, parents, and other significant adults in the student’s life. Teachers who serve as mentors meet with students weekly, for 20-minute individual sessions. The program intervention lasts for two years and mentors are caring, supportive, and consistent staff. Musical Empowerment By sharing the gift of music and by using positive reinforcement, college students become role models who nurture pride and instill self-confidence in their mentees. This relationship is mutually beneficial for both teachers and children enrolled in the program. Kids learn how to play an instrument, read music, and perform, through which they learn the value of becoming a contributing member of their local community and develop discipline, responsibility, patience and confidence. Musical Empowerment provides free 1-on-1 music lessons, pairing college volunteers and underserved children together to nurture meaningful relationships. Musical Empowerment loans free instruments for every student in need. After three years in the program, the student owns the instrument. After School Sports, Clubs, & Activities PSAL Boys Basketball PSAL Girls Basketball PSAL Boys Volleyball PSAL Girls Volleyball PSAL Boys Baseball PSAL Girls Softball PSAL Boys JV & Varsity Football PSAL Girls Flag Football PSAL Girls Golf PSAL Boys/Girls Wrestling PSAL Boys Soccer PSAL Girls Soccer PSAL CO-ED Track & Field PSAL CO-ED Bowling Anime Club Art Club Badminton Club Basketball Club Black Student Union Chess Club Class of Consciousness Club Computer Coding Debate Club Digital Media & Film Environmental Green Team Frisbee Club Glamour Girls Community Service Korean Culture Club Prism Club Model UN Music Club Muslim Student Association National Honor Society OCKY University (Bodybuilding) Club Peer-Tutoring Program Photography School Newspaper (Madison Times) Soccer Club Student Government Association Science Lab Technician Club Travel Club Volleyball Club Please note that all PSAL after-school activities are subject to PSAL academic requirements. Extra-curricular Activities/Academic Enrichment