ECFS Lives Its Mission in the Time of COVID-19
Early in the pandemic, Jon Alschuler, Fieldston Middle Assistant Principal for Student Life, and Arhm Choi Wild, Fieldston Middle and Fieldston Upper Diversity Coordinator, came up with the idea of […]
ECFS Hosts First Ever Youth Virtual Climate Summit
When news broke that the ECFS campuses would not reopen for the remainder of the 2019–2020 school year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students, families, and faculty and staff were […]
ECFS Faculty Artists Shine in Virtual Spotlight
The viewers filtered in in a steady stream, then in a torrent: 20-odd participants in a Google Meet jumped to 50, then 70, 80. By the time Arhm Choi Wild […]
How ECFS Is Moving Its Campus Online
Amid the unprecedented COVID-19 situation, the world has changed in ways that were unimaginable even two months ago. As the Ethical Culture Fieldston School practices physical distancing, it has undertaken […]
Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Females in Finance Club Wins Big
The Knowledge@Wharton High School Investment Competition (KWHS) looked much different than originally planned by mid-April of 2020, as the world went inside and online amidst the COVID-19 crisis. On a […]
Family Visiting Day: a Chance to Step Into Fieldston Lower Classrooms
Between 8:00am and 8:30am on Friday, February 14, parents and guardians mingled, sipping coffee and munching on snacks in the Fieldston Lower Cafeteria. It was unusual to have so many […]
ECFS Student Shares Her Experience Delivering Joy
On Tuesday, December 17, the 9th and 10th Grade community service classes at ECFS came together for the Kingsbridge Heights Community Center Winter Solstice Festival. The community center, commonly referred […]
UN Official Visits ECFS as 7th Grade Studies Climate Change
On a frigid Friday in January — less than a week after temperatures in New York skyrocketed to a summery 70 degrees — Hamid Rashid, Chief of the Development Research […]
ECFS Community Gathers for Solidarity March
Sunday, January 5, was a bright, brisk day. The sun warmed the faces of members of the Ethical Culture Fieldston School community as they marched, shoulder to shoulder, across the […]
Rabbis Hirsch and Davidson Speak at Upper School Assembly
On January 9, 2020, ECFS invited Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch from Stephen Wise Free Synagogue and Rabbi Joshua Davidson from Temple Emanu-El to share their perspectives about anti-Semitism historically, the Holocaust, […]