Ethics for Children is now ETHICS FOR YOUTH!!!
Service and community projects, games, field trips, special guests, art, theater, and ethics in action.
That’s right—Ethics!
Ethics for Youth
The Ethics for Youth program is a fun, safe, interactive learning environment for kids and teens to investigate important topics that affect their lives and to deepen their understanding of their roles in their personal and broader communities. 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 classes 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, through service projects and collaborative work with a diversity of communities and organizations.
Our lessons and service projects are influenced by student passions and interests. Our program does not impose a fixed set of values or beliefs. Rather, our goal is to provide experiences that can broaden their perspectives and a space where students can identify their own values, expand their knowledge, and gain skills essential to developing and following their own moral compass and voice. All of our classes participate in the service projects, field trips, and welcome special guests throughout the year. Families are not expected to participate but are welcome to do so if they wish to join us.
Want to see our curriculum for the 2026-2027 year? CLICK HERE!
Growing Ethics (Ages 5–8 yo)
Empathy, Connection, & Creative Play
Evolving Ethics – (ages 9 – 12 yo)
Emerging Voices, Big Questions, & Meaningful Play
Community Coming-of-Age (Ages 13+)
As students grow, so does their impact. We are thrilled to introduce our new Community Coming-of-Age Program. This immersive, year-long, project-based journey is designed specifically for teens and tweens to take the lead. Backed by the mentorship of the broader Brooklyn Ethical community, older students tackle big questions through collaborative community projects and celebrate their transition into young adulthood by stepping up as true changemakers in a culmination ceremony.
September 20 (Trial Class), 27
October 4, 11 (Special Community Trip Day), 18, 26
November 1, 8, 15, 22
Winter Term:
December 6, 13, 20
January 10, 17, 24, 31
February 7, 28
March 7
Spring Term:
March 14, 21
April 4, 11, 18
May 2, 16, 23
June 6, 13 (End-of-Year Ceremony)
Classes are held on Sundays from 10:30 a.m. – 12 pm
at Brooklyn Ethical, 265 4th Avenue, Brooklyn.
Price: $175 per term or $500 per full year
Full and partial scholarships are available.
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Our Teachers
WURRM
Growing Ethics (ages 5 – 8yo)
WURRM is an antidisciplinary performance artist and community organizer with a background in children’s literacy programming, litigation dispute resolution, and STEM public art installations. Currently, they organize with an unschooling collective and a solarpunk collective to share a growth mindset ethos. Guided by the principle that play is the practice of what we’ve learned, WURRM is excited to explore the complex and illuminating nature of ethics through child-led, experiential, immersive play including song, dance, games, and art.
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe…”
-James Baldwin
SKY
Evolving Ethics (ages 9 – 12 yo)
Sky is a New York City born and raised art educator. Teaching through multiple mediums over the past seven years in public schools across the five boroughs, Sky specializes in comic book making, drawing and painting. Sky hopes to create a space for kids to exist in their uninhibited selves- free from judgment- with their ideas and thoughts being valued and understood. In their free time, Sky loves to illustrate, cook, and further pour into their community by collaborating and learning with and from their friends and neighbors.
SUNEHRA
Community Coming-of-Age (Ages 13+) – Living Ethics
Sunehra Subah (she/hers) was born and raised in Ozone Park, NY, always wanting to teach in the same city she grew up in! She is currently studying to get her initial certification for 7-12 English Education at Teachers’ College, Columbia. Sunehra believes in a vision of storytelling as a social justice project, and she is excited to put that vision into practice at Brooklyn Ethical. When she is not teaching, she can be found writing poetry, making playlists, or eating at her favorite restaurant, Nyonya, with a loved one!
Special Events
Trial Class
