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. 

Our Town, Our Community chronicles the making of Our Town, which was performed in the newly renovated Blauvelt Theatre in November 2018. Though it was an upper school production, Our Town featured participation from across the Friends Select community; upper, middle, and lower school students participated and performed, along with members of the faculty and staff. In addition, alumnus Noah Herman '02 returned to Friends Select to direct the play, and was assisted by alumna Mya Flood ‘14. The making-of documentary was created by Friends Select upper school filmmaking students.

Recently, lower and upper school Mandarin students from Friends Select School performed in the capstone event for the STARTALK Chinese Teacher Advancement Program at the University of Pennsylvania.

When I opened my office door on August 1 the room was completely empty. Completely. I knew it wouldn’t take long for that to change because all of my stuff was on its way from the suburbs, but I took a moment to look around and imagined how I would set things up and just what I could do with this wonderful piece of real estate in our cozy building.