Running for Rainbows

Let’s MOVE Together!

Maple Street School celebrates our LGBTQ+ community, and this year a team of runners from the school will be participating in the BROOKLYN PRIDE 5k on SATURDAY JUNE 10th! Let's give it up for Danielle, Coriel, William, Linda, Heidi, Anna, and Rebecca! We take joy in our diverse community of movers and shakers, and we lift up Maple Street families with LGBTQ+ parents, kids, or other family members. Please support our group of runners by donating. All donations help bridge the UPK funding gap at our school. We are boldly hoping to raise $2000 in just 2 weeks!

Please join the CHEER SQUAD the morning of Saturday June 10 at 10am sharp, near Imagination Playground in Prospect Park! Runners will pass by between 10:05-10:30am. That week during field day, we'll have "Rainbow Ribbon Wand" -making stations. Bring the ribbon wands to cheer on the runners (along with all your other noisemakers and rainbow everything). It'll be a party!

Maple Street School

Brooklyn Pride 5k

Brooklyn Pride 2023

Wait a minute, you don't know about Maple Street School? Maple Street School is play-based, cooperative preschool. Founded in 1978 by families in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn we maintain the vision of providing meaningful and joyful learning and play experiences to children ages 2-5 in our community and beyond.

Maple Street’s curriculum is community-emergent and based on children, teachers, families, and the community’s resources and growth. We work to create a culture of beloved community, where we believe everyone gets to play. Maple Street classroom curriculums are inspired by the Bank Street Developmental Interactive Model and Reggio Emilia philosophies. We are a school that embraces many philosophies and heroes. We are a vibrant, dynamic educational community of play, wondering, and learning together. We believe that choosing one or even two philosophies is limiting for so many voices and needs. We are all lifelong learners and are always researching and practicing how to best serve our early childhood community.

Maple Street strives to be an inclusive school and pays attention to and learns about race, gender, identity, class, access, ability and special needs, allergies and medical conditions and more. We are always learning, expanding and growing.

questions? contact rebecca or heidi

Running For Rainbows

Maple Street School Runners at the Brooklyn Pride 5k

Team Members