For our next Civil Discourse Panel Discussion, three experts on partisanship and political polarization will share their insights and opinions, in a conversation moderated by Friends Select students.

It’s a major adjustment when a child decides to play a sport at school. It can be an exciting time for the entire family, and with this excitement sometimes comes the anxiety of the unknown. Relax, it will all be ok! We have a fully inclusive athletic program at Friends Select School.

In the spring of 2018, Herb Siegel ’46 honored his friend and classmate Andy Lucine ’46 with a generous challenge to the Friends Select School community: Herb would match, dollar-for-dollar, $500,000 in donations to support need-based scholarships for Friends Select students. By the end of the calendar year, the community delivered: a total of $508,305 in gifts was raised by alumni/ae, parents, former faculty, and trustees to establish The Andy Lucine ’46 Scholarship Fund, a $1 million endowed fund to support students.

Advance Friends Select is the culmination of many years of an exciting, thoughtful, collaborative process undertaken by our community to reimagine an unparalleled Quaker education in the heart of Philadelphia.

On the Friday before Martin Luther King Day, J. Jondhi Harrell, Executive Director of The Center for Returning Citizens, spoke with middle and upper school students in the Race Street Meetinghouse. Harrell delivered the keynote address for Friends Select’s first-ever Martin Luther King Teach-in, which upper school students arranged to honor King’s legacy of activism and leadership in the civil rights movement.

Watch NBC10's recent interview with Allison Frick, Friends Select School's lower school STEAM librarian.