Fieldston Lower’s Holistic Approach to Social-Emotional Learning
It’s a crisp fall day at Fieldston Lower, and the students are happily engaged in an outdoor assembly. Distant rumbles of laughter and rays of sunshine bounce off the burnished […]
Engineering at Fieldston Middle Embodies ECFS’s Core Tenets
The 7th Graders enter their classroom and head directly to their work stations. With determined focus, they begin tinkering with the intricate, animated scenes they are constructing out of cardboard. […]
Fieldston Lower’s Library and Reading Culture as Strong as Ever
Despite the challenges of the ongoing pandemic, the Fieldston Lower Library has never closed! In March 2020, we went fully online — reimagining our library catalog to provide access to […]
Fieldston Lower Pre-K Use Seeds to Learn About the World
It starts with a seed. Thirty years ago, when Fieldston Lower Pre-K Teacher Cathy Burns-McDonald joined the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, she wasn’t sure what kinds of projects would keep […]
50 Fieldston Middle Schoolers Attend Virtual Literary Lunch
On November 10, for our most recent Fieldston Middle Literary Lunch, 50 students assembled in the Tate Library to attend the virtual Teen Press Conference for the National Book Award […]
5 Questions with Nikki Buccello, Form III Dean
Nikki Buccello, who joined the Ethical Culture Fieldston School this year as the Fieldston Upper Form III Dean, is excited to provide her students with as many moments of joy […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ethics in Action With the Community Drive
“What I see in this group of 10th Graders is what I see every time I teach this class,” says Fieldston Upper Ethics Teacher Shelley Topping-Omodunbi. “This is a group […]
4 Ways Fieldston Lower Prepares for Middle School
The transition between elementary school and middle school might seem daunting: new buildings, new teachers, new classmates — so much new. But the team at Fieldston Lower is well prepared […]