“We have so many people doing so many things. In a perfect world, if I could staff the way I needed to staff, I’d need 10 more teachers, seriously, in order to get done the things that need to get done,” said Principal Cynthia Schneider in the latest Principal’s Office interview.

SchoolBook is watching this year’s PSAL basketball championship tournaments. In Brooklyn, Transit Tech faced off against rival Boys and Girls High School, with a shot at the borough-wide title up for grabs. It was a close game, until the end.

In the latest installment of the Principal’s Office series, SchoolBook talked with Dominick D’Angelo, who has led I.S. 228, on Avenue S in Brooklyn’s Gravesend neighborhood, with a business mindset, a byproduct of his earlier career on Wall Street.

Nutrition taught through competitive cooking. A program run by Montefiore Hospital is teaching teens what it takes to cook and eat healthy food.

One elementary school in crowded District 30 is getting more seats soon. The School Construction Authority announced plans to build an annex slated to open in 2016.

Some Bronx middle schoolers visited Google this week to show off projects they developed with the help of mentors.

A local Corona native leads the middle school I.S. 61 with a focus on strong relationships and continuity for his students. SchoolBook interviews Joseph Lisa in our latest Principals Office.

See what some readers are saying about the city’s pilot program that for the first time offers both hormonal birth control and the Plan B pill to high school students.

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