How Q300 Turned One Soccer Class Into a 32-Course Daytime Enrichment Program
A partnership that grew from a single weekly class into a consolidated daytime enrichment program, transforming what Q300 students get to explore each week, without expanding full-time staff.
At a glance
Q300: A Citywide Gifted & Talented School That Refused to Settle
Q300 is a progressive, citywide gifted and talented K–8 public school in Queens, New York. Built around a mission to foster inquiry, inclusion, and responsibility, Q300’s curriculum is grounded in inquiry-based learning that cultivates critical thinking and a real love for learning. That ambition extends well beyond the academic day.
When Q300 set out to elevate its daytime residencies without expanding its full-time staff, the school partnered with Togetherhood. What started as a single soccer class has grown into 32 customizable weekly classes covering everything from art to music to sports, and now serves as the backbone of Q300’s daytime enrichment.
Ambitious Enrichment, Thin Administration, No Easy Way to Bridge the Gap
Q300’s leadership wanted daytime residencies that matched the rigor of the school’s academic program: varied, expert-led, and engaging. But delivering that kind of programming in-house was running into hard limits. The school needed three things at once — and sourcing them from multiple independent providers would have meant a coordination load Q300’s thin administration could not absorb.
Expert instructors at scale
Highly specialized teaching artists, coaches, and educators the school couldn’t feasibly recruit, vet, and onboard one by one.
Supplemental staffing that extended full-time roles
Not a replacement for full-time art and music teachers, but a way to extend their reach without compromising quality.
Enrichment beyond the traditional curriculum
Multiple topics, real depth, and the flexibility to adapt as the school’s schedule and priorities evolved.
The Togetherhood Solution
A Consolidated Platform for Daytime Enrichment
Togetherhood replaced the prospect of juggling multiple vendors with one consolidated platform for art, music, and sports: a single point of contact for sourcing, scheduling, and managing these daytime residencies.
Q300 gets vetted expert instructors, customized course design, and the operational lift that lets school leadership focus on teaching and learning, not on logistics.
From One Class to 32, in Three Deliberate Steps
Testing the Waters
The collaboration began with a single soccer class, one day a week. A low-risk way for Q300 to see whether Togetherhood’s instructors and operations could match the school’s standards in practice, not just on paper.
A Special Event That Changed the Conversation
During Black History Month, Togetherhood produced “Artists of the Harlem Renaissance,” a two-week immersive workshop celebrating cultural heritage through art. It was a hit with students and faculty alike, and made the case for what a deeper partnership could look like.
A Full-Scale Daytime Program
By the Fall 2024 term, the partnership had expanded to 32 fully customizable weekly classes spanning art, music, and sports — supplementing Q300’s full-time art and music positions and giving students consistent access to disciplines they would never see in a traditional curriculum.
The Backbone of Q300’s Daytime Enrichment
What began as a single class has become the engine behind Q300’s daytime enrichment — and the model the school relies on to keep stretching what students can experience during the school day.
32 customizable weekly classes
A full slate of daytime residencies covering art, music, and sports — all sourced, scheduled, and managed by Togetherhood, and taught by vetted expert instructors.
Full-time staff multiplied, not replaced
Flexible scheduling and expert teaching resources let Q300 supplement its art and music programs without adding full-time headcount.
A consistent quality bar across every course
Every instructor is vetted before stepping in front of students, so quality doesn’t swing from class to class or term to term.
Zero coordination drag on a thin administration
Q300 manages one partner instead of many, keeping leadership focused on the school, not on vendor logistics.
A model built to keep growing
Because the partnership scaled deliberately — from one class to one event to a full program — Q300 can keep adding new disciplines without re-architecting its operations each term.
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