Our
Story
New Design High School (NDHS) is a small academic
high school with a focus on design, located in the Lower East Side of Manhattan
in the Seward Park Campus. We are
a college preparatory school that uses the concept of design to assist in
meeting the holistic needs of adolescents, including the academic,
intellectual, social, emotional and artistic sides of students.
NDHS
integrates the idea, concept and process of design into a progressive,
academic, high school curriculum, thereby offering a model of innovative and
comprehensive education. The
school community believes that design and the design process allow students to
experience a more experiential form of inquiry-based education that is focused
on understanding real world contexts, self-expression and problem solving. We believe that when students are
engaged in the process of designing, they are learning to observe, seek
problems, identify needs, frame problems, work collaboratively, explore and
appreciate solutions, weigh alternatives, and communicate their ideas verbally,
graphically and physically.
The design process also includes periods for
self-assessment, critiques of works in progress, revisions and opportunities
for reflection on the entire process.
NDHS integrates all of its classes with the idea of design and the
design process, as well as offer classes in design. NDHS currently has over 400
students in grades 9-12.
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Read Our Mission Statement
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Download our Developmental
Overview (PDF)
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Download our Quality Review
Report for 2010-2011 (PDF)
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Download our Quality Review
Report for 2009-2010 (PDF)
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Download our Progress
Report (2010-2011)
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Download our Progress
Report (2009-2010)
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Download our Progress
Report (2008-2009)