Our vision for success is a school where students are eager to learn and ask questions, teachers are excited to teach and grow as professionals and families are valued partners in their child's academic and social growth.

We will realize our vision by:

Providing a rigorous, standards based curriculum that enables all students to meet and exceed established levels

Ensuring that teaching is effective and supports the needs of all students

Empowering students to make good decisions that will enable them to lead a healthful, independent and fulfilled life

Consistently reinforcing the importance and value of education so that all stakeholders understand their shared responsibilities

Ensuring that school leaders and Board members constantly support and develop teaching and learning, providing every appropriate resource

Being reflective and self-evaluative practitioners, regularly engaging in active and open communication in a desire to develop and improve

History

Harlem Day Charter School is an innovative alternative to the existing public school system. As provided by New York State law, the school is nonprofit and organized solely for the purpose of delivering a free, high quality education to public school students. Harlem Day Charter School was established by Sheltering Arms Childrens Service, an agency with over 30 years of experience operating early childhood education, daycare and after school programs in Central and East Harlem, and Benjamin V. Lambert, a successful real estate entrepreneur with a history of working closely with educational organizations. Mr. Lambert is a Trustee Emeritus of Brown University. He is also a Trustee of The Spence School, the Waterford Institute, and the Waterford School. Mr. Lambert is a board member of the Manhattan Council of Boy Scouts of America, the Robert Steel Foundation for Pediatric Cancer Research, and Sheltering Arms Childrens Service.

In addition to a Board of Trustees that provides strong managerial and fiscal oversight, Harlem Day is fortunate to have a bright and modern school facility designed to encourage children to explore and learn, and a talented teaching faculty. All of these elements combine to make Harlem Day a uniquely strong