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Middle School AAPI Club Fairs

Community

A Look Inside Poly’s AAPI Middle School Group

Sisters affinity group

Community

An Affinity for Nurturing Success: The First Year of S.I.S.T.E.R.S.

Slavery and Resistance history course

Academics

Unearthing Voices: Upper School History Course Centers Black Resistance

Poly Women in Sports Panel

Athletics

Women in Sports Panel: Stories of Perseverance and Success

Lower School United Voices group photo

Academics

Lower School Affinity Group ‘United Voices’ Visits Brooklyn Museum

Solidarity Week rainbow flag of students

Community

Celebrating LGBTQ+ Youth and Allyship: Solidarity 2024

Poly Land Acknowledgment

Academics

Poly’s First Land Acknowledgement

GSA National Coming Out Day

Community

National Coming Out Day: Celebrating Courage and Acceptance

Poly Pride March

Community

Honoring Pride and Perseverance with Guest Schuyler Bailar

Rienzi by Neeka Aghazadeh '27

Academics

Reflections on Rienzi Poetry Showcase

Shabbat Dinner

Community

HUGs Hosts Poly’s First Community Shabbat Dinner

Lower School Words Matter initiative

Academics

Words Matter

“My Hair a Mi Modo''

Academics

Learning Through Language: “My Hair a Mi Modo”

Carmelo Larose deib

Community

Meet DEIB Coordinator Carmelo Larose

Felipe Santiago ‘26

Community

Get to Know: Felipe

Clarence Haynes with student

Academics

Author Clarence Haynes Discusses Novel, Storytelling, and Finding Inspiration

Asian American Course student-teacher collaboration

Academics

Independent Study to Become Asian American History Course

Faculty Summer Professional Development Maite Iracheta

Academics

Arts

Community

More Enriching Summer Professional Development

Summer Professional Development in Argentina

Academics

Poly Faculty Are Lifelong Learners

NYU Summer Courses teacher with students

Academics

Summer Partnership with NYU School of Engineering

Lower School Women's History Oratory Content

Academics

Championing the Words of Women

Camryn Garrett author visit

Academics

Author Camryn Garrett Visits Poly

HBCU Alumni Student Mixer panelists and attendees

Academics

First HBCU Alumni Student Mixer

Karyn Parsons with Myka Modeste '23, Mia Edwards '23, and Sundiata Gittens '23

Academics

Actor and Author Karyn Parsons Delights Poly

Poly Connected James Seaton

Alumni

Poly Connected: Embracing Empathy

Middle School students work on their mosaic pieces

Arts

Middle School Students Create DEIB Mosaic

Art & Social Change De-Stress project

Arts

Art & Social Change Hosts Community Projects

Human solidarity rainbow flag on the oval at Poly Prep

Community

Poly Celebrates Solidarity Week

Alumni Polygon editors visit current journalism students.

Academics

Former Polygon Editors Revisit “How We Talk When We Talk About Race”

Julissa Velazquez and Cinthya Sanchez dancing

Academics

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage at Upper School Assembly

Poly Cultura

Community

PolyCultura 2022 Celebrates Belonging

Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein with The Disordered Cosmos book cover

Academics

Cosmologist Highlights Intersection of Physics and Social Justice

Black Power-Black Arts - Mia Edwards artwork

Academics

Black Power-Black Arts

HBCU week students taking virtual tour of Howard University

Academics

Poly Hosts Its First HBCU Week

Jamelle Bouie

Academics

Poly Context Features New York Times Columnist Jamelle Bouie

R. Zamora Linmark Author Visit

Academics

Middle School Hosts Author R. Zamora Linmark

Lower School salsa dancers greet students at lower school

Community

Lower School Celebrates Hispanic/Latinx Heritage

Maite Iracheta summer professional development in Mexico

Academics

Maité Iracheta Connects with Mexicayotl Movement in Summer Professional Development

9-Man Poly on Film series

Arts

Poly on Film Looks at a Uniquely Asian-American Sport

reunion social justice panel 2021

Alumni

Reunion 2021: Class of 2009 on Social Justice

Visual Arts Debuts Virtual Exhibition in May

Arts

Visual Arts Debuts Virtual Exhibition in May

Upper School Rienzi

Academics

Upper School Celebrates World Languages and Poetry

Dr. Donald Earl Collins Poly Connected speaker

Community

Poly Connected: Tackles ‘Cancel Culture’

Middle School Rienzi 2021

Academics

Middle School Celebrates Rienzi 2021

Poly Honored with CCE Award James Ogilvie and Wendy Banner

Community

Poly Honored with CCE Award

Lower School Women's History Month Assembly 2021

Academics

Lower School Celebrates Women’s History Month

Confronting Anti-Asian Discrimination

Community

Confronting Anti-Asian Discrimination

Poly Connected Dread Scott

Community

Poly Connected: Social Change through Art

PolyCultura

Community

PolyCultura: A Celebration of Diversity Through The Art of Storytelling & Connection

Afrofuturism “Entropia,” by artist Julie Mehretu

Academics

Brooklyn Museum Educators Bring Afrofuturism to US Assembly

Lower School MLK and African-American History Month Assemblies art

Academics

Lower School Celebrates MLK and African-American History Month

Poly Connected Camille Rich

Community

Poly Connected: Other People’s Stories

SEED Project

Academics

SEED Is a Tool in Creating Equity in the Classroom

Lunar New Year ox

Community

Kindergarten A Shares Lunar New Year Celebration with Lower School

Facing Latin America Website by Students

Academics

Students Launch “Facing Latin America” Website Project

Holocaust Remembrance Assembly

Academics

Child of Survivors Is Guest at Holocaust Remembrance Assembly

Lower School PreK Rosa Parks Civil Rights Lesson

Academics

Pre-K Reenacts Rosa Parks’ Bus Protest in Civil Rights Study

Dr. Omari Keeles

Community

Poly Welcomes Dr. Omari W. Keeles as Its New Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Joseph Wright ’75, M.D. and Vivien Thomas (inset)

Alumni

Dr. Joseph Wright ’75 Champions Story of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas

Lower School Virtual Festival of Lights

Community

Virtual Festival of Lights Shines Brightly

The Students for Environmental Justice Conference

Academics

Reflections on The Students for Environmental Justice Conference

Anti-Racist Read-Aloud book collage

Academics

Lower School Anti-Racist Read-Aloud Initiative

Diwali artwork

Community

HUGs API Hosts Lower School Celebration of Diwali

Alumni

Poly Arts Debuts Alumni-in-Film Series

Erica Corbin Professional Development

Academics

Responding in the Moment: Professional Development Training

LS Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month

Academics

Lower School Celebrates Latinx Heritage

Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar and her book Never Caught

Academics

Social Historian Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar Is Context Speaker

Lower School Ally Week 2020

Community

Lower School Celebrates Ally Week in Rainbow Colors

Plato's Allegory of the Cave Illustration

Academics

Senior Philosophy Seminar Sparks Questions About Identity

HUGs story thumbnail

Community

HUGs Fosters Unity & Inclusion at Poly

Kadyn Liburd

Academics

One Student’s Journey in a Year of Challenges

Professional Development screenshot

Community

Faculty Seek to Improve Learning & Equity

Dr. Jackson Collins Professional Development Speaker

Academics

Dr. Jackson Collins Addresses Racial Literacy, Microaggressions, and Moving Forward with Poly Prep Faculty

Community

Freedom from Bias: Poly Parents Do Anti-Racism Work