Parenting for Peace

Parenting for Peace

FRIENDS SCHOOL OF PORTLAND’S PARENTING FOR PEACE PROGRAM developed as an outgrowth of their overall educational vision – to encourage inquiry, reflection and action and to strengthen the community of learners. In accordance with Quaker values and process, they...
Service Learning Guidelines for High School Students

Service Learning Guidelines for High School Students

Maryland was the first state in the U.S. to mandate service learning for high school students. Service learning is a teaching method that combines meaningful service to the community with curriculum-based learning. Students improve their academic skills by applying...
Do Our Children Know Enough About Quakerism to Play Quaker? Dover Meeting Dollhouse

Do Our Children Know Enough About Quakerism to Play Quaker? Dover Meeting Dollhouse

Children learn through play. They play school, they play house, they even play COVID, giving everyone shots. Do our children know enough about being Quaker to play Quaker? Children are fully spiritual beings. Meeting life needs to be as open and comprehensible to them...
Candle Prayer (for Friends of all ages)

Candle Prayer (for Friends of all ages)

Since the beginning of the Religious Society of Friends, we have found “the Light” to be a helpful way of talking about the Divine. Today, we often speak about “the Light within” and “holding each other in the Light,” but not all Friends know that the image of the...