38% of the students are students of color 8% are international students.
The students come from all over the city, often navigating public transit to reach school. Friends Select is blocks from City Hall and from the Art Museum. That trip stayed with me even as I transitioned from teaching at Sandy Spring Friends School, a suburban Quaker school set on 160 acres in Maryland, to teaching at Friends Select School, an urban Quaker school in Center City Philadelphia. The experience was deeply meaningful for my students and for me and underscored the power of experiential education and of storytelling. Through these partnerships, we had the opportunity to spend time on Navajo Nation with Irene Notah, learning about traditional Navajo weaving, and in Zuni with Ken Seowtewa, learning about Zuni art. At each phase of my life, I have distinct memories of recognizing and cherishing Philadelphia-and the places and people associated with the city-as my home.Īt Sandy Spring Friends School, I led a week-long trip to New Mexico where my school partnered with Cottonwood Gulch, a wonderful organization that has been in the four corners area since 1926 and has cultivated community partnerships throughout the last 90 years.
My first job took me away from Philadelphia again and I spent three years teaching at Sandy Spring Friends School in Maryland before returning to Philadelphia in the summer of 2018 to teach at Friends Select School. I left Philadelphia to attend undergrad at Yale, where I majored in English, before returning to the city to get a master’s at Penn in teaching high school English.
As a child, I spent three years living in Jerusalem, first as a toddler, and then again for my 8th-grade year. My life has been a series of phases characterized by either leaving or returning to Philadelphia. Subject: Language Arts By Miriam Rock Curriculum Designer’s Letter and Story There There by Tommy Orange, the Importance of Place, and Contemporary Native American Communities Grade Band: Secondary
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