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 […]

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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 […]

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Letters to the Editor: Championing Women in Science

Students in Katherine Kartheiser’s 9th Grade Biology class were assigned a simple comparison of two sets of data: One was the page in their textbook covering endosymbiotic theory (how structures […]

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Bree Newsome Leads Packed Black History Month Celebration

Early on a June morning in 2015, Bree Newsome put on a helmet and scaled a 30-foot pole outside the South Carolina State House. At the top, she paused to […]

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5th Graders Bridge Disciplines to Tackle Climate Change

The Lego robot sitting beside Charlotte D. ’27 and Dylan M. ’27 suddenly whirs into action. “We made solar panels that will rotate when the sun moves.” Charlotte gestures toward […]

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Students and Faculty Witness History in Montgomery, Alabama

When 22 ECFS students and four chaperones flew to Montgomery, Alabama, in February, their flight mirrored the history they would soon be studying — turbulent. The trip, organized by the […]

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Middle School Environmental Club Tackles Climate Change

The cafeteria is abuzz with chatter as students exchange jokes over General Tso’s chicken and orange juice. But for the leaders of the Fieldston Middle School Environmental Club, who are […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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