The Ethics for Children Program
Art, service projects, theater, music, games, scavenger hunts, conversation & ethics.
That’s right—Ethics!
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The Ethics for Children program is a fun, safe, interactive learning environment for kids to investigate important topics that affect their lives. Our program fosters empathy, a deeper understanding of self and others, and empowers students to make a difference in their world.
How do we do it? Each of our weekly class features a lesson drawn from our 5 core principles: Caring for Self, Family, Community, Society (our world community), and the Earth. Our lessons utilize participatory learning through art, theatre, games, music, discussion, reflection, and most importantly – action.
One of our program features is our Service Days when all of our students come together to perform a project for the greater good. Past projects have included making lunches for a community fridge, a beach cleanup, and making enrichment toys for shelter animals.
Our lessons and service projects are influenced by student passions and interests, ensuring our classes have significance to them. Our program does not impose a fixed set of values or beliefs. Rather our goal is to provide a forum where students can identify their own values, expand their knowledge and gain skills essential to developing and following their own moral compass and voice.
We encourage you to contact us with questions.
Full and partial Scholarships are available. Apply at: https://bsec.org/scholarshipapp/
Classes will be held on Sundays from 10:30 a.m. – noon at our Brooklyn Ethical location, 265 4th Avenue, Brooklyn.
In-Person Classes are held on Sundays 10:30 – Noon
Price: $175 per term (fall/winter/spring) or $500 per full year
Growing Ethics (ages 5 – 8yo)
Living Ethics (ages 9 – 12 yo)
Evolving Ethics* (ages 13 and up)
*Evolving Ethics is a culmination program requiring a full year commitment.
Fall
September 20, 27
October 4 (Service Day), 11, 18, 26
November 1 (Service Day), 8, 15, 22
Winter
December 6 (Service Day), 13, 20
January 10, 17, 24, 31
February 7 (Service Day), 28
March 7
Spring
March 14, 21
April 4 (Service Day), 11, 18
May 2 (Service Day), 16, 23
June 6, 13
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Angel Thompson
Angel Thompson is an artist, writer, educator, and mother. She has a background in visual arts, including an Integrative Arts degree from Penn State University. She has over 10 years of teaching experience, working with families and children of all ages throughout NYC. As an instructor, she is passionate about instilling her students with the skills they need to share their inherent creativity and voice. She is a strong proponent of service-learning and volunteerism. She believes that facilitating experiences for youth where their principles can become action is essential to developing a life of agency for the greater good.
Kerry Warren
Kerry Warren is a New York based actor, teaching artist, and former Co-Executive of the Teaching Artists Guild, TAG. As a theater teaching artist, she strives to create a classroom of joy and rigor and hopes to make classical texts such as Shakespeare more relatable and accessible to her students. She is a graduate of the Juilliard School where she received The President Polisi Prize for Artist as Citizen and recently received the NEXT GENERATION award from the National Guild of Community of Arts Education in 2024. She has taught with Harlem Children’s Zone, Lincoln Center Education, GIRLBEHEARD, People’s Theatre Project, the 52nd Street Project, EPIC theatre, ArtsConnection, New York Theater Workshop and a member of NYC Artist in Education Roundtable
Laura Borgwardt
Laura is an actor and teaching artist based in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to BSEC, she currently teaches theater/movement and careers in theater & film for ArtsConnection. Laura is also a co-founder of and teaching artist with CO/LAB Theater Group, a nonprofit for actors with developmental disabilities (colabtheatergroup.com). She lives in Brooklyn with her daughter, Joanie, and their rescue pup, Edith Ann.
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