A Diverse Community Of Learners And Leaders.
The mission of Brighter Choice is to create a safe and healthy learning environment that nurtures, motivates, and challenges students to meet and exceed state standards. Our goal is to prepare students to succeed in middle, high school, and ultimately college.
Brighter Choice Community School has District 16’s only Pre-K Spanish through 3rd Grade Spanish Dual Language Program. Each year Brighter Choice Community School expands its dual-language program. It is our goal to produce generations of bi-literate, bicultural, and bilingual scholars.
BCCS subscribes to the dynamic Project-based learning. Students explore real-world problems and challenges. With this type of active and engaged learning, students are inspired to obtain a deeper knowledge of the subjects they're studying.
BCCS subscribes to STEAM & Project-Based learning approaches. STEAM is Science and Technology interpreted through, Engineering and the Arts, all based on Mathematical elements. We have found that this curriculum teaches students how all things relate to each other, in school and in life.
Jeremy K. Daniel, Principal
As a learner, I believe that adults can gain a wonderful and important perspective by listening to children. It is a misconception that adults cannot learn from children and that they do not have the experience to contribute meaningful dialogue and solutions to complex issues in the world. At BCCS, our role is to instruct and guide, but it is also to learn and partner with our students and families in a collaborative educational journey, and this partnership begins at the early childhood level and lasts throughout our lifetimes.
Kim Nunes, Assistant Principal
My goal is to continue the work of advocating for our youth and community while providing our students and families with an educational experience where values and diversity are celebrated in which this community was founded upon and to where all students should have a variety of opportunities to succeed!
"Unity is strength...when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved." Mattie J.T. Stepanek
“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows” - Sydney J. Harris
Deittra Wilder, Parent Coordinator
We love BCCS because of its commitment to the whole student across a variety of subjects, interests, and enrichments. We love BCCS' sense of pride, diversity, uniqueness, and confidence it fosters in each student. To be apart of the BCCS family is to love every student as if they are your own.
Please feel free to contact me at: DWilder2@schools.nyc.gov
Deardra Zahara Duncan, Guidance Counselor
As the School Guidance Counselor, and founding member of the BCCS community, my mission is to provide students with the safe place to speak, explore, understand, express and grow without judgement, fear or doubt of being heard, respected and represented. As I nurtured my own children with honor, pride and love, so too for my BCCS family. One love, love ALL!
Ms. Denicia, Occupational Therapist
My name is Ms. Denicia and I am the occupational therapist at Brighter Choice Community School. I followed the call to serve our children and families in public education to provide opportunities to learn skills, apply new learning, and to equip our children with the tools to grow to become as independent as possible. When our children are taught the skills needed to become independent, he/she can successfully complete daily activities and routines and function in his/her role as a student within the school's natural environment. I am excited and looking forward to working with my students and families this school year.