Social Action

All students at PS 527 engage in our Social Action Process: Research, Imagine, Act, Voice. Each year students engage in one social action project connected to a Wit and Wisdom Module of Study. Some projects have included book drives for the Brooklyn Book Bodega, shark awareness campaigns, and books of poetry created and donated to the Poet House. Students first research a topic deeply and find out what is needed. Then they imagine the possibilities to solve a problem or make something better. They take action and try out their solution. In order to make more people aware, they voice what they did in hopes the process will begin again.

Our PTA also leads several social action projects for the whole community to participate in throughout the year. This includes making meal kits for the Grassroots Grocery, participating in a Neighborhood Litter Clean Up, a toy drive collection for ABC Kids, and more.

PS 527 is the first elementary school in NYC to create a share table to combat food waste at lunch. All leftover food is donated to the Community Fridge.