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First Grade Changemakers Visit Council Member’s Office

  On a lovely afternoon in May, several first graders and teachers took a neignborhood walk.  Lower School Head Teacher Laura Leopardo and Student Teacher Claire Shaman accompanied a group of seven kids — two or three  from each first grade homeroom – on a march of sorts  to drop off a stack of letters written by themselves […]

10th Graders Reflect on the Criminal Injustice System through Service

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 […]