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  • In light of recent and ongoing events, students in Morgan’s fifth, seventh, and US Painting classes were given the opportunity to respond through thoughtful and purposeful art making. The medium was up to the student and ranged from drawing and painting, mixed media, origami, and video. Work featured here: Zora '25, Daniela '25, Avery '23, Ivory '23 and Max '27. #fsfromafar
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    In light of recent and ongoing events, students in Morgan’s fifth, seventh, and US Painting classes were given the opportunity to respond through thoughtful and purposeful art making. The medium was up to the student and ranged from drawing and painting, mixed media, origami, and video. Work featured here: Zora '25, Daniela '25, Avery '23, Ivory '23 and Max '27. #fsfromafar
  • Please read "A Brief Profile of Recent Strides Toward Racial Justice at Friends Seminary" by clicking the link in our bio or visiting bit.ly/FSJustice for an update on the School’s intensive work in the areas of diversity, equity and inclusion and our aspirations for the future. @fscpej
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    Please read "A Brief Profile of Recent Strides Toward Racial Justice at Friends Seminary" by clicking the link in our bio or visiting bit.ly/FSJustice for an update on the School’s intensive work in the areas of diversity, equity and inclusion and our aspirations for the future. @fscpej
  • Larry Carter is celebrating 41 years as an educator at Friends Seminary! He explains, "Friends has been supportive of me during times of great pain as well as celebration. The Meetinghouse continues to provide me with the opportunity to reflect on my many blessings and communicate with God."⠀ ⠀⠀ Visit http://www.friendsseminary.org/profiles to learn more.⠀ ⁣⁣⠀⠀ ⁣Do you know someone in the Friends community that is working to bring about a world that ought to be? Nominate a Friend to be featured by contacting Amanda Goodman.
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    Larry Carter is celebrating 41 years as an educator at Friends Seminary! He explains, "Friends has been supportive of me during times of great pain as well as celebration. The Meetinghouse continues to provide me with the opportunity to reflect on my many blessings and communicate with God."⠀ ⠀⠀ Visit http://www.friendsseminary.org/profiles to learn more.⠀ ⁣⁣⠀⠀ ⁣Do you know someone in the Friends community that is working to bring about a world that ought to be? Nominate a Friend to be featured by contacting Amanda Goodman.
  • Stephanie Teo’s Upper School Sculpture and Ceramics classes never expected to be creating art from their own homes. Without clay readily available, ceramics shifted towards sculpture as students explored making innovative art in their virtual Studios. The prompts she developed allowed students to have a lot of choice in what they created and opened them to consider, “How do we adapt to what we have and create meaningful work?” Prompts included inviting students to go on a social distanced walk and assembling a sculpture out of found materials, and creating a three-dimensional snapshot of this time by constructing a replica of an item that they use daily. Friends Seminary’s extraordinary educators breathe life into their curriculum and student experiences through fun classroom routines, innovative new programs, and collaboration, even while miles apart. Gifts to the Fund for Friends (annual giving) provide essential support to ensure faculty are respectfully compensated and have opportunities for professional development that allow them to grow as educators, which has been especially important this year as they can adapt quickly to changing circumstances. The Fund also helps provide financial aid to families in need, support for extracurricular activities, technology and more. If you are able, please consider a gift to the Fund for Friends before June 30. Visit www.friendsseminary.org/give or click the link in our bio.
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    Stephanie Teo’s Upper School Sculpture and Ceramics classes never expected to be creating art from their own homes. Without clay readily available, ceramics shifted towards sculpture as students explored making innovative art in their virtual Studios. The prompts she developed allowed students to have a lot of choice in what they created and opened them to consider, “How do we adapt to what we have and create meaningful work?” Prompts included inviting students to go on a social distanced walk and assembling a sculpture out of found materials, and creating a three-dimensional snapshot of this time by constructing a replica of an item that they use daily. Friends Seminary’s extraordinary educators breathe life into their curriculum and student experiences through fun classroom routines, innovative new programs, and collaboration, even while miles apart. Gifts to the Fund for Friends (annual giving) provide essential support to ensure faculty are respectfully compensated and have opportunities for professional development that allow them to grow as educators, which has been especially important this year as they can adapt quickly to changing circumstances. The Fund also helps provide financial aid to families in need, support for extracurricular activities, technology and more. If you are able, please consider a gift to the Fund for Friends before June 30. Visit www.friendsseminary.org/give or click the link in our bio.
  • Music teacher Kristin Marchilena is just one of the faculty members reimagining their curriculum in distance learning. In the last few months, Grades 5 - 12 students rose to the challenge of being a remote choir. Kristin has pivoted her lessons, training herself and her students on how to use software, like Soundtrap, to record and edit their best sound looking at things like device placement, ways to minimize background noise and how to advocate for what they need while recording. She is also developing students as independent musicians, since they can’t work on collective sound in the same way while seeking training in video editing software to produce works that can be shared publicly. Friends Seminary’s extraordinary educators breathe life into their curriculum and student experiences through fun classroom routines, innovative new programs, and collaboration, even while miles apart. Gifts to the Fund for Friends (annual giving) provide essential support to ensure faculty are respectfully compensated and have opportunities for professional development that allow them to grow as educators, which has been especially important this year as they can adapt quickly to changing circumstances. The Fund also helps provide financial aid to families in need, support for extracurricular activities, technology and more. If you are able, please consider a gift to the Fund for Friends before June 30. Visit www.friendsseminary.org/give or click the link in our bio.
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    Music teacher Kristin Marchilena is just one of the faculty members reimagining their curriculum in distance learning. In the last few months, Grades 5 - 12 students rose to the challenge of being a remote choir. Kristin has pivoted her lessons, training herself and her students on how to use software, like Soundtrap, to record and edit their best sound looking at things like device placement, ways to minimize background noise and how to advocate for what they need while recording. She is also developing students as independent musicians, since they can’t work on collective sound in the same way while seeking training in video editing software to produce works that can be shared publicly. Friends Seminary’s extraordinary educators breathe life into their curriculum and student experiences through fun classroom routines, innovative new programs, and collaboration, even while miles apart. Gifts to the Fund for Friends (annual giving) provide essential support to ensure faculty are respectfully compensated and have opportunities for professional development that allow them to grow as educators, which has been especially important this year as they can adapt quickly to changing circumstances. The Fund also helps provide financial aid to families in need, support for extracurricular activities, technology and more. If you are able, please consider a gift to the Fund for Friends before June 30. Visit www.friendsseminary.org/give or click the link in our bio.
  • Julie and her son, Bode ‘26, recently participated in a volunteer effort inspired by guest speaker, Maggie Connolly, from CPEJ’s “Some Good News.” She explains: “Want to help but not sure where to start? Feeling unmotivated or out of sorts? This will help you! Here’s what to do, step by step: 1. Do a google search for your local food bank, soup kitchen, or homeless shelter. Reach out to them by email or phone. If you don’t hear back, that’s OK, they are overwhelmed right now and may not be able to respond but they DO need your help. Find out their hours of operation and their food distribution days, every city will have a list. If you are in NYC go to www.foodbanknyc.org for a list of food banks all over the city. I reached out to 10 different organizations and received one email back recommending NY Common Pantry. They distribute food between the hours of 10-2 Monday through Friday and are in need of food and meal donations. 2. Once you know where you will donate it is time to get cooking! We started with sandwiches but I know others who love to cook and deliver home cooked meals in disposable containers to the food banks each week. Do what you can, this should feel good and not be overwhelming. You can also check with local bakeries or grocery stores to see if they can donate bread, meat, cheese, or other food each week for your meals. We were able to get a large bread donation, thanks @maggieconnolly1 and @breadalonebakery 3. Reach out to friends and neighbors to see if they will join you in this act of giving. We had 15 loaves of bread so I reached out to 4 friends to help. We each made 42 sandwiches (in our own homes wearing a hat, hair pulled back, mask, and gloves) for a total of 200 sandwiches! Enlist one person who can pick up and deliver the sandwiches/meals each week. We all met on the corner, put our sandwiches in the trunk, and I drove them up to @nycommonpantry where people were lined up around the block in need of food. Give it a try! Let’s create “Giving Groups” all across our communities. Helping those in need one kitchen at a time.” #fsfromafar @fscpej
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    Julie and her son, Bode ‘26, recently participated in a volunteer effort inspired by guest speaker, Maggie Connolly, from CPEJ’s “Some Good News.” She explains: “Want to help but not sure where to start? Feeling unmotivated or out of sorts? This will help you! Here’s what to do, step by step: 1. Do a google search for your local food bank, soup kitchen, or homeless shelter. Reach out to them by email or phone. If you don’t hear back, that’s OK, they are overwhelmed right now and may not be able to respond but they DO need your help. Find out their hours of operation and their food distribution days, every city will have a list. If you are in NYC go to www.foodbanknyc.org for a list of food banks all over the city. I reached out to 10 different organizations and received one email back recommending NY Common Pantry. They distribute food between the hours of 10-2 Monday through Friday and are in need of food and meal donations. 2. Once you know where you will donate it is time to get cooking! We started with sandwiches but I know others who love to cook and deliver home cooked meals in disposable containers to the food banks each week. Do what you can, this should feel good and not be overwhelming. You can also check with local bakeries or grocery stores to see if they can donate bread, meat, cheese, or other food each week for your meals. We were able to get a large bread donation, thanks @maggieconnolly1 and @breadalonebakery 3. Reach out to friends and neighbors to see if they will join you in this act of giving. We had 15 loaves of bread so I reached out to 4 friends to help. We each made 42 sandwiches (in our own homes wearing a hat, hair pulled back, mask, and gloves) for a total of 200 sandwiches! Enlist one person who can pick up and deliver the sandwiches/meals each week. We all met on the corner, put our sandwiches in the trunk, and I drove them up to @nycommonpantry where people were lined up around the block in need of food. Give it a try! Let’s create “Giving Groups” all across our communities. Helping those in need one kitchen at a time.” #fsfromafar @fscpej
  • With campus closed, Marlowe '28 and her peers helped make birthdays special from afar! #fsfromafar
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    With campus closed, Marlowe '28 and her peers helped make birthdays special from afar! #fsfromafar
  • Department Chair and Grade 10 English teacher, Kate Olson, hoped to continue the study of Persuasion by Jane Austen in the classroom. Austen is not always a class favorite, but as students explore questions like what it means to be an outsider, who has the right to have an opinion, what happens when traditional social structures experience pressure, and how the ability to choose is critically tied to being treated as a human, students begin to see how the questions and concerns of the nineteenth century parallel some of their own. Kate found that a digital classroom brought a return to greater structure and small groups for more in depth discussion. Grade 10 was also able to take on another book, Zadie Smith’s White Teeth, which, like Persuasion, is set in Britain, but after WWII and during the second half of the twentieth century. Many of the same questions they addressed in their discussion of Austen were relevant in their work on the diverse landscape of post-war London that Smith depicts.⠀ ⠀ Friends Seminary’s extraordinary educators breathe life into their curriculum and student experiences through fun classroom routines, innovative new programs, and collaboration, even while miles apart. Gifts to the Fund for Friends (annual giving) provide essential support to ensure faculty are respectfully compensated and have opportunities for professional development that allow them to grow as educators, which has been especially important this year as they can adapt quickly to changing circumstances. The Fund also helps provide financial aid to families in need, support for extracurricular activities, technology and more. If you are able, please consider a gift to the Fund for Friends before June 30. Visit http://www.friendsseminary.org/give
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    Department Chair and Grade 10 English teacher, Kate Olson, hoped to continue the study of Persuasion by Jane Austen in the classroom. Austen is not always a class favorite, but as students explore questions like what it means to be an outsider, who has the right to have an opinion, what happens when traditional social structures experience pressure, and how the ability to choose is critically tied to being treated as a human, students begin to see how the questions and concerns of the nineteenth century parallel some of their own. Kate found that a digital classroom brought a return to greater structure and small groups for more in depth discussion. Grade 10 was also able to take on another book, Zadie Smith’s White Teeth, which, like Persuasion, is set in Britain, but after WWII and during the second half of the twentieth century. Many of the same questions they addressed in their discussion of Austen were relevant in their work on the diverse landscape of post-war London that Smith depicts.⠀ ⠀ Friends Seminary’s extraordinary educators breathe life into their curriculum and student experiences through fun classroom routines, innovative new programs, and collaboration, even while miles apart. Gifts to the Fund for Friends (annual giving) provide essential support to ensure faculty are respectfully compensated and have opportunities for professional development that allow them to grow as educators, which has been especially important this year as they can adapt quickly to changing circumstances. The Fund also helps provide financial aid to families in need, support for extracurricular activities, technology and more. If you are able, please consider a gift to the Fund for Friends before June 30. Visit http://www.friendsseminary.org/give