"We prepare students to engage in the world that is and to help bring about a world that ought to be."
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Outdoor Education
Inspired by the School’s mission, the Friends Seminary Outdoor Program (FSOP) creates intensive wilderness experiences, which allow students to form stronger connections to the natural world and build an eco-literacy regarding environmental sustainability. Using Experiential Education pedagogy, a theory that supports preparation, direct experience and meaningful reflection, students develop an appreciation for the outdoors and foster a sense of Stewardship; one of our Quaker testimonies. In addition to the current goals of social and personal development, this expedition structure allows time to focus on a deeper place-based curriculum that incorporates a service learning component.
Friends Seminary actively promotes diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism in all its programs and operations, including admissions, financial aid, hiring, and all facets of the educational experience. To form a community which strives to reflect the world’s diversity, we do not discriminate on the basis of race or color, religion, nationality, ethnicity, economic background, physical ability, sex, gender identity or expression, or sexual orientation. Friends Seminary is an equal opportunity employer.
Friends Seminary — the oldest continuously operated, coeducational school in NYC — serves college-bound day students in Kindergarten-Grade 12.
