Brookfield CSD Participates In Study

Since 2004 Brookfield Central School District has taken part in a study by the University of Albany’s School of Education.

NYKids has helped educators learn about promising practices from

other educators, according to the study.

To date, NYKids has identified promising practices at all levels, with

special attention to schools with above-predicted outcomes among

socioeconomically, culturally, and linguistically diverse youth.

Seven school districts in the state have been the focus of the study over the past 20 years.

Along with BCS, other participants are Alfred-Almond Junior-Senior High,

Crown Point CSD, Malverne Senior High, Fillmore Central School, Lafayette-Junior-Senior High and Roxbury Central School.

Brookfield has the lowest enrollment of the study schools and has the highest

percent of economically disadvantaged students at 78 percent.

Fillmore is second with 61 percent.

In the 2024 study, BCS was cited for offering a Mental Health First Aid program to 10th graders.

Plans are to expand that to elementary students.

Brookfield’s Book Buddies program to pair sixth graders with Pre-K students is an example of facilitating connections across grade levels, the study states.

BCS teachers talked about ways to make learning more hands-on to better engage students.

Students also help pick the topics to learn to better prepare for post-high school.

One prominent example of the responsive approach ...