The BFS Class of 2015 traveled together to New Orleans, Louisiana from June 2nd to June 6th to learn about the impact of Hurricane Katrina, build relationships with community partners, and expand their understanding of service and solidarity. Brooklyn Friends School 11th Grade Service experience in New Orleans DAY ONE: After an early morning departure, […]
Throughout the course of this school year, BFS students participated in several collective efforts to learn about and support the hungry and homeless in New York City. These efforts were organized in conjunction with the 9th graders’ Youth Service Opportunities Project (YSOP) experience. YSOP is a program dedicated to giving students opportunities to help others […]
Today was Global Youth Service Day! The goal of this day throughout the world is to have a positive impact on young people and on our communities through meaningful, youth-led awareness, service, advocacy, and philanthropy projects that meet community needs in the areas of health, education, human service, human rights, animal rights, and the environment. Today young people in 110 countries and […]
Our minimester course – “Post-Racial Freedom: From Abolition to Stop and Frisk” – will explore the rich and complex history in New York City and it’s connection to these questions: What role has New York City played in both freedom and oppression? How has money been made throughout history and how has “Wall Street” shaped this? […]
In the spirit of service, 12th Grader Sam M. is launching a petition in response to recent legislation allowing development in the Adirondacks. Check out Sam’s guest blog entry below: Click Here to Sign Petition I was inspired to create this petition because, like many people in our local and global community, I felt the […]
After learning about the Education from the Inside Out Coalition‘s advocacy efforts through their Social Justice Service Learning course, Upper School students Patonya P., Jade H., Grace M., Sierra V., and Abby M. chose to participate in Higher Education for All Month, sharing why higher education is important to them. As part of this […]
In the context of our study of the criminal injustice system, BFS 10th graders created and sent holiday cards to twenty men who are incarcerated at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, New York. This study emerged out of the Social Justice Service Learning seminar, in which students selected criminal justice as an […]
