Students have explored the Bronx and beyond. 68, no. Are you sure you want to delete your template? Your file is uploaded and ready to be published. Ethical Culture is headed by Principal Rob Cousins, Fieldston Lower is headed by Principal Joe McCauley, Fieldston Middle is headed by Principal Jonathan Alschuler, and Fieldston Upper is headed by Principal Stacey Bobo. Ethical Culture, located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and Fieldston Lower, located on the Fieldston campus in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, serve Pre-K through 5th grade. Anyone can read what you share. Tuition and fees for ECFS were $55,510 for the 20202021 school year, and are increasing to $63,000 for the 2022-2023 school year. The idea is to use place as a primary source, said Andrew Meyers, chairman of City Semester and one of the eight teachers leading the class. If you want to make a park, why remove the dirt? A conversation about the transformation of the Bronx followed. Fieldston's athletic program includes 62 teams covering 23 sports. They used it to develop a class that all of them could teach. The Pulpit and the Stage: Rabbi Joseph Silverman and the Actors' Church Alliance, Deborah Dash Moore and Andrew Bush, Mitzva, Gender, and Reconstructionist Judaism, in Riv-Ellen Prell, ed., Women Remaking American Judaism (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2007), 135-152, Czech (Bohemian) Women in U.S. History: Independent Spirit and Their Nonconforming Role. Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2015, Render Unto Caesar": Religion/Ethics, Expertise, and the Historical Underpinnings of the Modern American Tax System, "'We Must Unite on Principles!' Bridge to Bridge - a mentoring program for students of color in the upper school to mentor middle schoolers of color. Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link. The school's hockey team as well as the girls and boys ultimate frisbee teams, however, do not play in the league and schedule their own games. Its pushed me out of my comfort zone, socially and academically, Emma Bratman said. Jennifer S. Altman for The New York Times, National Association of Independent Schools, Independent Schools Experiential Education Network. [15] There were parents who asked for the teacher's reinstatement. Students led walking tours through Harlem and the Lower East Side. Ethical Culture Fieldston School (ECFS), also referred to as Fieldston, is a private independent school in New York City. In 1880, elementary grades were added, and the school was then called the Workingman's School. By 1890 the school's academic reputation encouraged many more wealthy parents to seek it out, and the school was expanded to accommodate the upper-class as well, and began charging tuition; in 1895 the name changed to "The Ethical Culture School", and in 1903 the New York Society for Ethical Culture became its sponsor. The experimental program met with controversy from Fieldston parents, many of whom compared the meetings to segregation. Among its many notable alumni and former students are: Rubinfien, Leo. You can download the paper by clicking the button above. Text description provided by the architects. [16], Fieldston dropped its participation in the Advanced Placement Program in 2002 to give its faculty the freedom to offer more innovative, challenging, and thought-provoking material. Vol. The two lower schools feed into Fieldston Middle (6th8th grades) and Fieldston Upper (9th12th grades)also located on the Fieldston campus in Riverdale. [1] Joe Algrant is the Head of School. Two million cubic yards of dirt was removed to create the park, Charlie Holtz, a junior from England, said. Lakeside School in Seattle (Bill Gatess alma mater) and the Watershed School in Colorado are among a growing number that are expanding their curriculums around experiential and expeditionary learning. You have already flagged this document.Thank you, for helping us keep this platform clean.The editors will have a look at it as soon as possible. It was a fair question, considering his audience was 16- to 18-year-old students from the Ethical Culture Fieldston School. Careful zoning of activities and acoustical treatment, as well as new enclosed collaboration rooms, offices and support spaces around the perimeter of the building, fosters individual and collaborative work.
Last year, Mr. Meyers and his colleagues secured a $10,000 grant from the venture grant board at Fieldston, which finances new initiatives. The school moved into its landmark Manhattan building at 33 Central Park West in 1904. Tate Library at Ethical Culture Fieldston School / Architecture Research Office, All rights reserved. The school serves approximately 1,700 students with 480 faculty and staff. Traffic whizzed by as they approached the Cross Bronx Expressway, the Moses legacy that cleaved the South Bronx. Performing this action will revert the following features to their default settings: Performing this action will permanently remove your draft from Yumpu. The entire school was located in that building until 1928 when the high school division (Fieldston) moved to its 18-acre (73,000 m) campus on Fieldston Road in the exclusive Fieldston section of Riverdale; the Manhattan branch of the Lower School remained there, and in 1932 a second Lower School was opened on the Riverdale campus. Mitzva, Gender and Reconstructionist Judaism, co-authored with Deborah Dash Moore, in Riv-Ellen Prell, ed. Lena Cole, a junior who lives in Chelsea, said, In the semester, Ive seen more of New York than in my whole life., Experiential, or hands-on, learning is a buzzword in educational circles, the theory being that it helps students absorb information better and think more critically than they would in a classroom. Ethical Culture Fieldston is a part of the Ivy Preparatory School League,[20] with many of New York City's elite private schools. I dont know if any of you are aware of those.. This curriculum covers a wide range of topics including community norms, relationships, decision-making, navigating choices encountered in middle and high school situations (e.g., around social media, sex, drugs, alcohol, and bullying). 135-52. The school consists of four divisions: Ethical Culture, Fieldston Lower, Fieldston Middle, and Fieldston Upper. On the river, the mood turned less chipper. The canoes gathered every 10 minutes so that groups could make presentations on topics like the creation of Shoelace Park, macroinvertebrates, and the birds and fish of the Bronx River. (Next year, a biking component will be added to the course to satisfy that requirement.) Andrew Meyers, right, a teacher at the Fieldston School, took students to see several affordable housing complexes in the Bronx. Schools somehow found themselves migrating away from that.. Congressmen Josh Gottheimer and Max Rose also wrote its administrators condemning the incident. I am also indebted to Clark Gilpin for much more than the inspiration for th Langton, D. 'Discourses of Doubt : The Place of Atheism, Skepticism, and Infidelity in Langton, D. Nineteenth-century North American Reform Jewish Thought' in Hebrew Union College Annual.
But students also said they preferred talking over listening to lectures, and completing projects over writing papers. The private school, in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, is not far from Honeywell Apartments, the low-income housing complex where Mr. Shabazz was speaking. The Letters of Kaufmann Kohler to David Philipson and Renewed Light on The Pittsburgh Platform of 1885", Michael A. Meyer, Religious Reform and Political Revolution in Mid-Nineteenth Century Germany: The Case of Abraham Jakob Adler, in German-Jewish Thought Between Religion and Politics: Festschrift in Honor of Paul Mendes-Flohr on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2012), 59-81, What It Is To Be A Jew: The Louis Down-Town Sabbath & Daily School and the Hebrew Technical School For Girls, 18801932. They are getting great results, Mr. Bassett said, noting that at the Watershed School, scores on a test of critical thinking were exceptionally high. ", "Bronx private school students caught using racist, homophobic language on video", "Protest over racist private school video ends in student victory", "Peaceful Demonstrations Lead To Big Victory For Students At Elite Ethical Culture Fieldston School", "Fieldston, Elite Private School, Faces Backlash From Jewish Parents", "The Anti-Israel Craze Hits High School. That same morning, a Fieldston parent, Adam Weinstein, who happens to be chief executive of the nonprofit organization that developed Honeywell, led a discussion about the evolution of public housing from tenements to towers. They took sides defending or prosecuting the renowned urban planner Robert Moses in a weeklong trial about his role in the deterioration of the South Bronx. Low bookcases and furniture are strategically deployed in the new Tate Library to strengthen visual connections, improve daylight, and maximize views of the surrounding wooded campus. [9] Students involved who were still enrolled in the school were punished; however, some 100 students who thought the actions were not enough staged a sit-in reminiscent of the 1970 protest. In 2007, a new middle school was opened on the same Riverdale campus, for the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades. Its what colleges are looking for.. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2007. 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City Semester evolved from other Fieldston courses, including one on the Bronx and another called Inventing Gotham. But those were expensive, with the Bronx class including six teachers. [8] U.S. They went to Hunts Point in the Bronx at 4 a.m. to see the citys food supply arrive and to interview owners and workers, and a two-day scavenger hunt took them from Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx to Brighton Beach in Brooklyn. [10] The students presented the administrators with twenty demands that included increased racial bias training, more faculty of color, the recruitment of more students of color, and a required ethnic studies course; the students' demands were agreed to and are planned to be implemented over the course of 23 years. The shelters, he said, were rough. To browse Academia.edu and the wider internet faster and more securely, please take a few seconds toupgrade your browser. [11], The school also attracted attention in November 2019 after it hosted a guest speaker who compared the Israeli treatment of Palestinians to the Holocaust, a statement which was denounced by many as antisemitic,[12] including two Reform Jewish rabbis who spoke at the school in the wake of the controversy and subsequently published a New York Times editorial about the incident.
Crack was big. Sorry, preview is currently unavailable. The comprehensive renovation of Tate Library at Ethical Culture Fieldston School (ECFS) transformed the signature 1970 building into a learning commons that is the hub for the entire campus. But he may have sensed it was a long way away. Wed love to hear your feedback here. 2 (2016): 1-33. A canoe with lunch disappeared for an hour, and the rain began to get to some of the students. FIELDSTON UPPER SCHOOL COURSE OF STUDIES 2012 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS On Choosing Courses 3 Graduation Requirements 3 Course of Study Flow Chart 5 Pass-Fail Option/Auditing Courses/Student Course Load 6 Adding & Dropping Courses/Independent Study/Senior Projects 7 Interdisciplinary Senior Seminar 8 City Semester: The Bronx Experience 9 English Department 10 History Department 17 Language Department 32 Mathematics Department 39 Computer Science Electives 42 Science Department 44 Ethics Department and Community Service 51 Visual Arts Department 59 Graphic Design Department 64 Theatre and Dance Department 65 Music Department 73 Physical Education Department 79 Tate Library 81 Learning Center 81 COVER DESIGN BY JORDAN FRIEDLAND 12 1.
All images are each office/photographer mentioned. We are currently in Beta version and updating this search on a regular basis. [2][3], The school opened in 1878 as a free kindergarten, founded by Felix Adler at the age of 24. Ms. Cole, the junior from Chelsea, said she would skip the second day of the canoe trip but for the fact that one of the stops was at the ABC Carpet and Home outlet, where her mother, the chief executive, was giving a presentation about the companys green roof. The school agreed to some of the student demands. The trip was one of many making up Fieldstons City Semester, an experiential, project-based class that integrates history, English, ethics, languages and science. An open interior layout, technology infrastructure, environmental systems, and LED lighting enhances the user experience and meets evolving future needs. One of the early faculty members was American sociologist Lewis Hine. 'Salis Daiches - Towards a Portrait of a Scottish Rabbi', Jewish Culture and History, 2015: online ID: 1084671 DOI:10.1080/1462169X.2015.1084671, 20 October 2015 print. On another rainy Tuesday, the students paddled canoes down the Bronx River on the first part of a two-day trek. They also aimed to have a greater number of minority courses, teachers, advisors, employees. ArchDaily 2008-2022. On a drizzly Tuesday morning, Shiloh Shabazz, a wiry and excitable 71-year-old, was talking about sleeping on subways, on and under park benches, and generally about being an addict and a nomad. Its probably acid rain, another said. The teams, known as the "Fieldston Eagles," play in the Ivy Preparatory School League against other private schools in the region. Fieldston's most recent athletic title was the NYSAIS Girls Soccer tournament in 2021. The students said that at least one math teacher was sick of their late returns from trips, and that a yoga class had to be created to satisfy a gym requirement. 28-59. Women Remaking American Judaism. In support of ECFSs mission of ethical learning, academic excellence, and progressive education, the buildings new open, spacious interior provides greater access to books, information and technology to enable multiple modes of teaching and learning. Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users. The Specter of Godless Jewry: Secularism and the Jewish Question in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany, Tongue Ties: The Emergence of the Anglophone Jewish Diaspora in the Mid-Nineteenth Century, A Prophetic Guide for a Perplexed World: Louis Finkelstein and the 1940 Conference on Science, Philosophy, and Religion, Dissecting the "December Dilemma": Post-WWII Rabbinical Opinions on Jewish Participation in Christmas Celebrations, West of Center: Jews on the Real and Imagined Frontiers of, Excellence in training rabbis as Jewish educators, David Ellenson, An Ideology for the Liberal Jewish Day School: A Philosophical-Sociological Investigation, Journal of Jewish Education 74:3 (2008): 245-263, Do Torah Values Count? 88 (2018), 203-253. The students in the video use derogatory and racist language. Soon after, a water fight ensued on the river. Fieldston awards over $15 million in tuition-based financial aid to 22% of the student body.[4][3]. This page was last edited on 21 July 2022, at 15:35.
Mr. Meyers remained upbeat. Students can take AP exams, but the school no longer officially sponsors such courses. Shaul Magid, The Ethnic Jew and Judaism in America according to Felix Adler, Josephine Lazarus, and Mordecai Kaplan, in William Plevan, ed., Personal Theology: Essays in Honor of Neil Gillman (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2013), 182-209, When Beruriah Met Aisha: Textual Intersections & Interactions among Jewish and Muslim Women Engaged with Religious Law, Bohemian and Czech Jews in American History, ERIC KAUFMANNS THE RISE AND FALL OF ANGLO-AMERICA, Jacob H. Schiff and the Beginning of Biblical Archaeology in the United States, THE BYZANTINE SYNAGOGUE OF ALFRED ALSCHULER, Modern Jewish Thought and Jewish Feminist Thought: An Uncommon Conversation, Arnold W. Brunner and the new classical synagogue in America, Tongue Ties: Religion, Culture and Commerce in the making of the Anglophone Jewish Diaspora, 1840-1870, Michael A. Meyer, German-Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century America, in Jacob Katz, ed., Toward Modernity: The European Jewish Model (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1987), 247-267, Michael A. Meyer, Two Anomalous Reform Rabbis: The Brothers Jacob and Max Raisin, The American Jewish Archives Journal, vol. Some seniors complained that the class, an elective, had taken them away from their friends in their last semester. Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Custom glass fiber reinforced gypsum (GFRG) ceilings integrate lighting, while maximizing the continuity of the space. Christine Nasir, James Henry, Mai Kitmungsa, The Future of Architectural Visualization, Sustainability and Performance in Architecture. The students had also visited Lambert Houses, another low-income complex, and would set off for Via Verde, a new subsidized, sustainable development. In March 1970, about 60 students occupied the administration building in protest to demand that more black and Puerto Rican students be admitted to the school. At that time, the idea that the children of the poor should be educated was innovative. My Sons Have Defeated Me: Walter Lippmann, Felix Adler, and Secular Moral Authority** I am indebted to Clark Gilpin, Loren Goldman, Kathryn Lofton, Eva Mroczek, and the anonymous reader for their insight and suggestions. [13] The school's response to the controversy was sharply criticized as being inadequate and itself antisemitic by many parents of Fieldston students. The three high schools Fieldston, Riverdale, and Horace Mann together are known as the "Hill schools,"[21] as all three are located within a short walking distance of each other in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, on a hilly area above Van Cortlandt Park. Academia.edu no longer supports Internet Explorer. ", National Association of Independent Schools, Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Ethical Culture Fieldston School: General FAQ", "Frequently Asked Questions About Our Admissions Process", "Fieldston Board Threatens Expulsion of Protesters for Future Disruptions of the School", "Can Racism Be Stopped in the Third Grade? The three are also involved in inter-school sports rivalry. By days end, many were dripping and discouraged.
Three students had never been in a canoe; others were experts from summer camp. Hooray! Ive made a lot of friends I wouldnt have known.. [14] In January 2020, the school fired a Jewish teacher who posted tweets opposing the invitation of two speakers on anti-Semitism because they were, according to him, "white" and Zionists. [5][6], Beginning in 2015, the school began separating children for mandatory weekly "affinity group" meetings based on their self-identified race, to discuss issues of race and bias. Base was big, he said of the time when he was using drugs. A few years ago, a group of private schools founded the Independent Schools Experiential Education Network. You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! The school is a member of the Ivy Preparatory School League. ", "Democrat Congressmen Raise Concerns Over NY School Hosting Speaker Comparing Israel to Nazis", Elite N.Y. Prep School Fires Teacher Who Posted anti-Zionist Tweets, "Accusations and Rancor as Elite School's Leader Departs", "High School Drops Its A.P. The class has created some scheduling conflicts. Aristotle said that which we learn, we only learn by doing, said Patrick F. Bassett, head of the National Association of Independent Schools. David Lefkowitz of Dallas: A Rabbi for All Seasons, Inventing Jewish Music, Again: Reuben Rinder in San Francisco (1913-1962). From Guatemala to California via Brooklyn and Ann Arbor: the life and work of Sephardic author Victor Perera (1934-2003) as reflected in the University of Michigan Library Special Collections Research Center. Ive never been this miserable, one girl said. Maintaining the integrity of the original stone and concrete building, the exterior renovation includes new windows with bird-friendly glazing and a new main entrance facing the campus quadrangle. Relational Aggression in Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Bais Yaakov High School Girls, Review of Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture by Julian Levinson, Kyle Stanton, Hyman Judah Schachtel, Congregation Beth Israel, and the American Council for Judaism, "Jewish Education" Magazine and American Jewish Education, Part I, "The Origins of the Young Israel of Brookline and the Contest for 'Modern Orthodoxy'". "Where Diane Arbus Went. Nativist Cosmopolitans: Institutional Reflexivity and the Decline of DoubleConsciousness in American Nationalist Thought, Individualism, Nationalism, and Universalism: The Educational Ideals of Mordecai M. Kaplan's Philosophy of Jewish Education, Southern Jewish History, v. 22 (2019), full issue, The Religious World of Ancient Israel to 586 BCE, American Jewish Reponses to Darwin and Evolutionary Theory, 18601890, Feminist Jewish Thought as Postliberal Theology. If the students were not aware of shelters and affordable housing before the trip, they were getting a crash course now. On the bus that would take them back to Fieldston, Ms. Bratman said the satirical magazine at the school had just posted a Twitter message: Whats the worst thing youd do to avoid city semester?, For Bronx Private School, All the Citys a Classroom in an Experiential Course, https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/04/education/in-fieldston-school-course-all-of-new-york-is-a-classroom.html. [7][8], In February 2019, a video that is believed to be created years previously was discovered by administrators after it was shared during a dispute between students. Koffman, David S. Suffering & Sovereignty: Recent Canadian Jewish Interest in Indigenous Peoples and Issues, Canadian Jewish Studies / tudes juives canadiennes. 25, 2017, pp. Howard Waldman, (the green dean), who teaches science, called attention to the tweet of the yellow warbler, and students asked park workers on the banks of the river whether the Japanese knotgrass was hybrid or regular. While there was some concern that college admissions could be negatively affected, Fieldston's college office worked closely with admissions officers of schools across the country to explain the change and to assure that its students would be evaluated on the quality of its courses, even without the AP designation.[17]. STS (Students Teaching Students) a specialized ethics program in which Form V & Form VI students (juniors and seniors) teach middle school students.