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Amy Ward Brimmer

Funding Available -- March 1 Deadline!

Dear Friends and Colleagues:Please note a wonderful funding opportunity available to all Friends schools everywhere. Generous financial support from the Sue Thomas Turner Quaker Education Fund through Baltimore Yearly Meeting makes it possible for…Continue

Started by Amy Ward Brimmer in Sample Title on Monday.

Julia Eells

The place of community "gotcha" games in Quaker Schools

Friends,We are in the midst of a relatively mild (remember, we are all-girls) student-initiated game of spoons, which is a "gotcha" elimination game that connects students and faculty to people that they do not know and that creates a lot of…Continue

Started by Julia Eells in Sample Title on Monday.

Amy Silver O'Leary

Video about Ruby Bridges and learning the lesson Dr. King taught

OUTSTANDING and very moving 7-minute video made by 7th grade students at Frankford Friends School for MLK Day about Ruby Bridges, the first black student at formerly all-white William Frantz Public School in New Orleans in 1960 (depicted in the…Continue

Started by Amy Silver O'Leary in Sample Title on Sunday.

Eva Kay Noone

New and Improved Junior/Senior Project Queries! 2 Replies

 William Penn Charter SchoolJr./Sr. Project Queries Dear Colleagues,At Penn Charter we are exploring what other Friends upper schools are doing about senior projects. Would you take a few minutes to complete the on-line survey below?…Continue

Started by Eva Kay Noone in Sample Title. Last reply by Eva Kay Noone Jan 17.

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International Day of Peace - connecting around the globe

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For colleagues outside of the Phila. region - consider forming an International Peace Day event committee in your area! Or, connect with other peace groups to plan events for this world-wide observance.For colleagues in the Phila. area - AFSC & Peace Day organizers invite you to the next Peace Day - Philly 2012 discussion meeting on Wednesday, February 8th at 12 Noon at the Ethical Society on Rittenhouse Square.  The purpose of this meeting is to discuss ideas for possible activities for…See More
Deborra Sines Pancoe added a discussion to the group Quaker Life in Lower & Middle Schools 1 hour ago
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UN International Day of Peace

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For colleagues outside of the Phila. region - consider forming an International Peace Day event committee in your area! Or, connect with other peace groups to plan events for this world-wide observance.For colleagues in the Phila. area - AFSC & Peace Day organizers invite you to the next Peace Day - Philly 2012 discussion meeting on Wednesday, February 8th at 12 Noon at the Ethical Society on Rittenhouse Square.  The purpose of this meeting is to discuss ideas for possible activities for…See More
Deborra Sines Pancoe added a discussion to the group Upper School Religion Teachers 1 hour ago
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FLES Teaching in Friends Schools

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Group posted by Nicole Donnelly 4 hours ago
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Deborra Sines Pancoe left a comment for Melinda Yin
Melinda - would you please post your queries again to the Open Forum part of this .net? I think what you are asking will be of great interest to people across the board in Friends education - upper, middle, lower schools as well as librarians,…
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Deborra Sines Pancoe replied to Melinda Yin's discussion 'Cell phones, and other devices' in the group Technology in Friends Schools
Melinda, These queries are very helpful. It will be illuminating for us all to hear how each Friends school addresses these queries with faculty and with students. I would like to re-post this message in the Librarians group, in the Upper School…
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Cell phones, and other devices

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I am curious about how other colleagues are seeing the use of small devices change in their schools.  Currently at Friends' Central upper school we have a no cell phone use during the day policy; but as the availability of these devices has exploded and the devices have gained multiple other functions (checking email, search the web, texting, taking pictures, listening to music, to start...), we are in the process of reexamining our policy.I'd like to share some queries I came up with to think…See More
Melinda Yin added a discussion to the group Technology in Friends Schools Wednesday
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Technology in Friends Schools

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This Friends Council group is for sharing ideas and resources around technology issues in Friends schools.
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