A useful resource for boards and heads of Friends schools, the Friends meetings that are in care relationships with Friends schools, as well as for private and independent schools. The revised edition provides guidance in areas of governance that are unique in Friends schools and new material on advancement, effective board process, and building an optimum culture for school leadership and governance.

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Prepared by Sean Compagnucci for the Friends Council on Education
Inspired by Faith and Practice of twenty-six yearly meetings around the world, Advices and Queries is designed to sustain and deepen the Quaker dimension of Friends school communities as it supports administrators, faculty, and staff in examining how their daily practices and interactions reflect Quaker values.

Arthur Larrabee
A companion piece to the Governance Handbook for Friends Schools, covering major areas of responsibility and attention in Friends school governance. Queries invite Boards, both as a whole and as individual board members, to consider their work and progress towards good governance.
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by Stephen G. Cary
Identifies how George Fox’s revelation has shaped the Religious Society of Friends and has influenced the education of children in Friends schools. Describes unprogrammed silent meeting for worship, Friends method of conducting business, social witness, and the continual search for truth.

by Barbara Caldwell
An explanation of the Quaker decision-making process and its applicability to school settings. This pamphlet describes how the process can be applied to large formal groups as well as small ad hoc groups, characteristics needed in the members of the group as well as their responsibilities, decision-making in Friends schools, and problems inherent in the process, as well as solutions.

"I am delighted that the contributors to this book have come out to share how mindfulness and concentration can be a pleasure to learn, as well as to teach."
—Thich Nhat Hanh
This collection vividly demonstrates that contemplative methods can be used with any curriculum content. Experientially-based vignettes show children, teenagers and teachers using pebbles, mandalas, literature, beanie babies, yoga, journals, homework, artwork to strengthen the core skills underlying all learning: concentration, observation, relaxation, and open, receptive awareness with a positive, curious attitude. Click here for discount on 10 or more copies.

Samuel D. Caldwell
What is Quaker about Quaker education? What do teachers in Friends schools do in their classrooms and in interaction with students and one another that could reasonably be called Quaker? In this pamphlet, the author, a former clerk of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and an experienced Quaker educator, argues that the distinctiveness and aim of Quaker education is to nurture a certain kind of personhood in our students.

The essence of teaching and learning in Friends schools is explored by four different voices in this collection, perfect for exploration in full and/or departmental faculty meetings.

Friends schools are known to be learning communities centered around Quaker values. This publication from Friends Council emphasizes that the pedagogy in Friends schools — how we teach — is as valuable as what we teach.

The collection includes essays by:Irene McHenry - Friends Council on Education, Jane Fremon - Princeton Friends School, Nancy Starmer - George School, and Friends educational consultant J. Harry Hammond.

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by Ellis T. Williams
Description of meeting for worship, its purpose in a Friends school, preparation for worship, gathering, centering down, spoken messages and the conclusion of meeting.