Community Service and Service Learning
Greene Hill students are active stewards of community life in their neighborhoods, in NYC at large, and beyond. The aim of our community service program is for students to engage in projects where they can have a direct impact, develop meaningful relationships with members of the community and their peers, and have a high level of respect for their environment. Since service learning is an integral part of the social-emotional curriculum, we believe it is important for students to have a say in the projects that they undertake. By the end of Middle School, GHS students will have had the opportunity to participate in both internal and external community service and service learning projects. Through these experiences students develop their capacity for compassion, empathy, and caring.
Here are some ways that Greene Hill Students develop, facilitate and take ownership of community service initiatives both inside and outside of school:
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Overseeing recycling
Organizing a Lost and Found
Caring for our garden
Leading activist campaigns for causes such as gun control
Creating student-run Earth Club to raise environmental awareness
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Greene Hill School participated in enriching partnerships with a number of local organizations including but not limited to:
Adopt-a-Farmbox
Audubon Center in Prospect Park
Bedford branch of the Brooklyn Public Library
Billion Oyster Project
Brooklyn Academy of Music and BAM’s Dance Africa
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy
Brooklyn Grange
Brooklyn Music School
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Cumbe: Center for African and Diaspora Dance
Irondale Theater
Jane Bailey Memorial Community Garden
Little Essentials
One Community
Phoenix Rehabilitation Center
Urban Glass