<strong>Ethical Culture’s Young Playwrights Invite You Into the Mind of a 4th Grader</strong>

If you ask a group of older students at ECFS about their fondest memories of 4th Grade at Ethical Culture, brace yourself to hear a recurring theme: the 4th Grade […]

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<strong>ECFS Honors the Impact of Women in Sports and Beyond</strong>

March is Women’s History Month, an internationally recognized month to highlight and celebrate the contributions of women to society throughout history and in the present day. We visited with students […]

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Candy Mail! Ethical Culture’s Kindergarten Post Office Opens for Business

Each year, the Ethical Culture Kindergarteners build and operate a functional post office — named Candy Mail this year — that serves the entire building.  Guided by their teachers, the […]

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Fostering Joy in Learning: Literacy at Ethical Culture and Fieldston Lower

At the heart of engagement with any academic subject are curiosity and joy. Fostering a love of reading and writing requires a lot of focus, patience, and joy-centered practice. The […]

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Ethical Culture Renovates for the Future

When students returned to the Ethical Culture campus in September 2022, they were welcomed back to bright, fully renovated classrooms on the fifth floor, and three months later in December, […]

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ECFS’s Commitment to Financial Aid Offers Security, Access, and Community to Students and Families

At the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, financial aid is integral to creating a community that is welcoming, accessible, and reflective of New York City. Financial aid is awarded to one […]

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“¡Bienvenidos!”: The Ethical Culture Spanish Book Project

When Spanish classes began at Ethical Culture nearly 20 years ago, parent and photographer Hilary Leff contacted the School with an idea. Leff explained that she worked with an organization […]

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Four Questions with the Ethical Culture Green Committee

With Earth Day approaching on Friday 4/22, we are revisiting the ways in which the Ethical Culture Fieldston School engages in sustainability. This spring, we sat down with the Co-Chairs […]

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How We Build Community at Ethical Culture

A patter of rain lightly taps the window panes of Radhika Hira’s 2nd Grade classroom as students settle in for the day. It’s a stormy, yet unseasonably warm, November day […]

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Ethical Culture Specials Classes Make Triumphant Return

“It’s been a while since we’ve seen each other,” says Ethical Culture Social Studies Workshop Teacher Leonard White over the low hum of the air purifiers in the Workshop. A […]

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