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:

  • 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

  • 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