Standing with the AAPI Community
Dear BFS Community: Brooklyn Friends School does exist as a Quaker Independent School to educate children on the building blocks of learning, and yet most importantly, we exist to partner […]
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Insurgency, Inauguration, Our Children: Head of School Stands with the Friends Council
Head of School Crissy Cáceres and 57 heads of Friends schools around the country signed an editorial with the Friends Council on Education in the wake of the riots […]
Quakerism & Friends Education Workshop This Thursday, December 3
Join our Brooklyn Friends and Families association this Thursday, December 3 at 6:30 pm at a virtual workshop for BFS families on Quakerism and Friends Education. Led by Drew […]
Outside Study Enriches Faculty
Hancock Shaker Village in Massachusetts For some Brooklyn Friends School faculty, summer research is a religious experience. Middle School History teacher Amanda Goodwin, now in her second year […]
Time Traveling to Quaker New Amsterdam
In early May, six fourth grade teachers, led by Head Teacher Bea Bartolotta and 4C Head Teacher Amy Hertz, journeyed with their 66 students to New York State’s […]
Compassion, a BFS and Quaker tradition
The program of our first commencement, from 1910 BFS has always strived to be compassionate for its community, particularly for its students, both while enrolled at our school and forever […]
Remembering Benjamin R. Burdsall, 1903-1968
Got to thinking about Benjamin R. Burdsall this week as our Upper School faculty has been doing its own thinking about recipients of our annual awards for the Upper School […]
Let Your Films Speak: The Bridge Film Festival,15 Years Young
“Know your history, ask questions and follow your heart.” Garrett Bradley, BFS ’03, Bridge Film Festival alumna It’s Spring Break, but it’s also time to reserve your tickets for the 15th annual […]
Gatekeeper No More
1940, BFS Principal Douglas Grafflin’s Address to the Trustees of the Schools of New York Monthly Meeting proposing the enrollment of African American students at BFS. Please click to read Grafflin’s entire […]
Answers from Our Ancestors: The Jacksons on BFS, Friends Education and Quakerism
Will Walter Jackson Unlike computers or labs or books, defining the heart of Brooklyn Friends School is difficult. That heart is rooted in Quakerism and we do try to explain […]