Friends Forward

Friends Forward

Alejandra Navarro-Benbow

Abington Friends School

World Languages Department Chair

Jenkintown, PA

12:00pm EDT

Optional Lunch Faulkner Reading Room

1:00pm EDT

Opening Session: A Gathering of Friends Muller Auditorium

1:45pm EDT

2:00pm EDT

Keynote Address - Lauren Brownlee, Deputy General Secretary of Friends Committee on National Legislation Muller Auditorium

3:30pm EDT

4:00pm EDT

Workshop 1A: Meetings that Matter: Designing and Leading Effective Team Meetings in Quaker Schools M3/M5 (Middle School Hallway) Workshop 1C: Teaching Quaker Discernment and Decision Making Through Discipline Council M11/13 (Middle School Hallway) Workshop 1F: Onboarding at MFS: Peer Leadership and PLCs M12 (Middle School Hallway) Workshop 1G: Transmitting Quaker Practices to New Colleagues Rudin Lab (Near Library Entrance)

5:15pm EDT

Walk to Meetinghouse M8/10 (Middle School Hallway)

5:30pm EDT

Meeting for Worship Abington Monthly Meeting

9:30am EDT

Morning Gathering & Announcements Muller Auditorium

10:00am EDT

Workshop 2A: Teaching In Resonance M1 (Middle School Hallway) Workshop 2B: Moments That Matter: Navigating Classroom Interactions Through a Quaker Lens M8/10 (Middle School Hallway) Workshop 2G: Teaching the Soul in the Age of Meta M7 (Middle School Hallway)

11:30am EDT

MFW with a Query (Programmed MFW/Worship Sharing) Multiple Locations (see description for details)

12:30pm EDT

Optional Roundtable Discussions Multiple Locations (see description for details)

1:30pm EDT

Keynote Address - Gardy Guiteau, social justice educator, facilitator and owner of GJG Training and Consulting Muller Auditorium

3:15pm EDT

Workshop 3A: Turning Mission into Action M3/M5 (Middle School Hallway) Workshop 3B: Friends Education for Our Most Complex Learners Rudin Lab (Near Library Entrance) Workshop 3D: Transmitting Quaker Practices to New Colleagues M11/13 (Middle School Hallway) Workshop 3F: What is an Emotional Well-Being Program? M12 (Middle School Hallway)

4:15pm EDT

4:30pm EDT

MFW - Experience of Different Examples Multiple Locations (see description for details)

5:30pm EDT

Day 2 Closing & Announcements Abington Monthly Meeting

8:00am EDT

Morning Gathering & Announcements Muller Auditorium

8:30am EDT

Workshop 4A: Outliers, Outlaws, Outcasts: Storytelling Beyond the Hero's Journey M12 (Middle School Hallway) Workshop 4D: Teaching the Soul in the Age of Meta M8/10 (Middle School Hallway)

10:00am EDT

Keynote Address - Allyx Schiavone, Chief Executive Officer of Friends Center for Children Muller Auditorium

11:45am EDT

Worship Sharing & Closing Circle Outside (Rain Plan: Faulkner Library)

12:45pm EDT

Boxed Lunch Pickup Muller Lobby