Friends School's approach to classroom management is based on a social curriculum that helps us to create a safe, warm, productive, academically challenging school environment and to more fully foster the Quaker values of simplicity, community, social justice, diversity, equality and peace on a daily basis. Our social curriculum was developed and inspired by the book, Teaching Children to Care: Classroom Management for Ethical and Academic Growth, K-8 by Ruth Sidney Charney. We provide students the tools they need to be socially responsible and self disciplined by spending time at the beginning of the each school year creating social expectations within each level of the school.

Making Our Rules

Friends School students participate each fall in a comprehensive, faculty-guided, rule-making process. After rule making is complete, teachers use proactive modeling to help the students learn the skills and language they need to be able to function as caring, self-responsible school citizens. Teachers look for opportunities to observe our students being good and use positive, affirming feedback to reinforce responsible behavior. Teachers use reminders and redirection for students in the rule learning process. This process fosters social competence and encourages students to be productive and caring members of the community. 

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