Portrait of A Young Friend: Amanda Becker ’18
BFS lifer Amanda Becker ’18 is a bright light at BFS and at many points beyond our community. She has been profiled on the Friends Council of […]
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Middle and Upper Schoolers Examine Global Refugee Crisis
On Friday, September 23rd, all of our seventh graders and 40 of our 10th and 11th graders had the opportunity to participate in Forced From Home, a free, interactive, educational […]
Turning Words Into Actions
On November 12, Director of Service Learning & Civic Engagement Natania Kremer and a swift team of Upper School students held a half- day Community Issues Conference for the […]
From Dante to Delhi: BFS Teachers’ Summer Learning Excursions
It’s not unusual for BFS faculty to take advantage of summer seminars offered by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and other organizations, then return in September to regale […]
10th Grade End-of-Year Immersion Experience in New Orleans
The culminating experience for our 10th Grade Service & Justice Seminar: Exploring Parallel Struggles with C.A.R.E. (Community, Accountability, Reciprocity, Equity) is a New Orleans immersion experience during the first week […]
9th Grade End-of-Year Service Learning & Civic Engagement Experience
The 9th Grade End-of-Year experience was based in Brooklyn and focused on service learning and civic engagement in various communities in our borough. Students learned more context about the history […]
4th Graders Partner with the Heights and Hills Senior Community
by Joy Roberts What do 55 fourth graders and 9 senior citizens have in common? That is the question that BFS fourth graders put to the members of Heights and […]
6th Grade Service Learning
by Laurice Hwang This year the middle school focused on stewardship. Stewardship is not just taking care of the environment, but taking care of the people in our community. Service […]
5th Grade Service Learning
by Laurice Hwang The Service Learning program for the 5th grade has been focused this year on two central themes – the elderly and (dis)ability. These two areas of focus […]
Building Reciprocal Relationships through 7th/8th Grade Dance!
by Jesse Phillips-Fein For 7 years, the BFS 7/8th grade dance classes have collaborated with dance programs at several public schools, including 5th graders P.S. 95 in the Bronx (Nia […]
April 22nd Advocacy Day in Albany to H.A.L.T. Solitary Confinement
11th Grader Patonya P. and 10th grader Emmitt S. volunteered to participate in the April 22nd Advocacy Day in Albany with Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement (CAIC) in support […]
“That’s Not Fair!” The Second Grade Change Maker Curriculum
The seven and eight-year-olds in our second grade classrooms are developmentally inclined to care deeply about fairness. They have a clarity of conviction around issues of equality that is often […]