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Education Standing Committee
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The Education Standing Committee provides renewal, guidance and support to the services and projects which directly concern the religious and academic education of young people and adults and those who serve them within the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends. Such activities include support for religious education programs, nonviolence and children, parent education, teacher support, curriculum and publications, tuition aid programs, support for Friends schools, financial stewardship, and Quaker pilgrimage. |  |
| Clerk: Deborah Lyons · education@pym.org | Current Member List | Education & Religious Education Programs links |
| Staff: Elke Muller at 215-241-7223 or e-mail: elkem@pym.org , 1-800-220-0796, extension 7223 |
Education & Religious Education Offices
1515 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102. Toll free
number: 1-800-220-0796
| Director: | Tom Hoopes, 215-241-7224 or e-mail: tomh@pym.org, 1-800-220-0796, extension 7224 |
| Young Friends | Cookie Caldwell, 215-241-7222 or e-mail: cookiec@pym.org,
1-800-220-0796, extension 7222 |
| Middle School Friends | Elizabeth Walmsley at 215-241-7171 or e-mail: elizabethw@pym.org, 1-800-220-0796, extension 7171 |
| First Day School Support | Christie Duncan-Tessmer 215-241-7008 or e-mail: christiedt@pym.org, or 1-800-220-0796, extension 7008 |
| Administrative Assistant and staff support for Nonviolence & Children | Elke Muller at 215-241-7223 or e-mail: elkem@pym.org , 1-800-220-0796, extension 7223 |
| PYM Library | Rita Varley at 215-241-7219 or e-mail: ritav@pym.org, 1-800-220-0796, extension 7219 |
| List of Working Groups &
Projects: Under the care of the Education Standing Committee |
Affiliated
Organizations
Atlantic
City Friends School Records
Children's Religious Education Programs
Children's Sessions Planning Group
Children's Spiritual Life Committee
Committee on Friends Education
Friends in Public Education
Middle School Friends Working Group
Nonviolence and Children Working Group
Quaker College Fair
Quaker Parenting
Quaker Pilgrimage to England
Young Friends Working Group
YouthQuake Working Group
| The mission of the Committee
on Friends Education is to advance the cause of
Friends education within Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. The committee's
work will fall within the following areas: 1) Supporting Friends schools
and their Quaker character; 2) Supporting Friends children in Friends
schools; 3) Educational grant making; 4) Collaborating with Friends
Council on Education; 5) Being a champion for Friends education. Staff: Elke Muller at 215-241-7223 or e-mail: elkem@pym.org , 1-800-220-0796, extension 7223 Staff: Tom Hoopes, 215-241-7224, e-mail: tomh@pym.org ·; 1-800-220-7096, extension 7224 |
Middle
School Friends Working Group Middle School Friends
welcomes young people ages 11-14 and parent and high school volunteers
to gather as a spiritual community, to deepen in the understanding
of the faith and practice of Quakerism, to grow in the Light, and
to have plenty of fun together. We have weekend gatherings 6 times
during the school year at Monthly Meetings all over the Yearly Meeting.
For an inspirational visit about Yearly Meeting gatherings, ideas
for attracting and supporting Middle School-aged Friends in your
meeting, learning games which adolescents will love, and the opportunity
to be a Friendly Presence or to serve on the Middle School Working
Group, contact Elizabeth Walmsley. |
| Young
Friends Working Group has 6-8 meetings
a year at Friends Center. Numbers vary between 6 and 20 members attending.
Members discuss gathering planning and evaluation. We also recruit
Friendly Adult Presences (chaperones) for the gatherings. For
an inspirational visit about Young Friends gatherings or Youth Quake;
ideas for setting up a high school Young Friends group or facilitating
a conversation about how to bring teens together with adults, please
call Cookie Caldwell. If you have ideas for the Young Friends Working
Group or would like to be a Friendly Presence at a Young Friends Gathering
check out this
information for Adult Volunteers YF Co-Clerk: Kate Busch, .....Adult Co-Clerk:: Alice Gitchell,..... Recording Clerk: Sarah Jochum. Staff: Cookie Caldwell at 215-241-7222, e-mail: cookiec@pym.org 1-800-220-0796, extension 7222 |
| Children's
Religious Education Programs How to approach the
Bible with children and youth; how to start or organize a religious
education program in your meeting ; Friendly discipline in First-day
classes, teaching techniques for fledgling First-day teachers, ways
to make meeting for worship meaningful for children and youth, how
parents can prepare their children for meeting for worship, developing
a plan to reduce the risk of child sexual abuse in your meeting, the
opportunity to lead RE workshops, help organize RE events. Please
call PYM Office 215-241-7008 or e-mail: education@pym.org,
or 1-800-220-0796, extension 7008 for help with First-day
School and Curricula for your First-day program. More
information. Staff: Christie Duncan-Tessmer 215-241-7008 or e-mail: christiedt@pym.org, or 1-800-220-0796, extension 7008 Religious Education Newsletter Curriculum Capsules |
| The Children's Spiritual Life Committee is the Yearly Meeting committee with the intent to encourage and support a full range of children’s religious education programming and spiritual life, both formal and informal. Though Monthly Meeting religious education is a first priority, the committee also supports the spiritual lives of children through their communities such as the family, quarterly and yearly meeting activities. The committee works closely with PYM’s Coordinator of Children’s Religious Education, Christie Duncan-Tessmer, supporting and extending her work. It is under the care of the PYM Education Standing Committee. Mary Lou Hatcher, Convening Clerk (Lehigh Valley MM), says “Children are such an integral and joyful part of the Society of Friends. It is really exciting to join with other Friends who are committed to enriching the full scope of our children’s spiritual journeys.” Mary Lou may be contacted at 610-866-7527 or mlhatcher55@hotmail.com |
| Nonviolence and Children
Working Group For ideas,
workshops, and training on community building, discernment, and conflict
resolution, intergenerational workshops on “Bullying,”
“Befriending Feelings” and “Self and Earth Esteem,”
resources for First-day teachers and parents on cooperative games
and helping children become peacemakers and the opportunity to please
call or e-mail: Staff: Elke Muller at 215-241-7223 or e-mail: elkem@pym.org , 1-800-220-0796, extension 7223 |
| Quaker
Parenting The Quaker Parenting
Project aims to support parents in their efforts to integrate their
Quaker beliefs, testimonies and practices into their family life.
Please call Harriet Heath if you would like Harriet to come to your
meeting and lead a discussion or a series of discussions on Quaker
Parenting. Contact: Harriet Heath, 610-649-7037, e-mail: harriet_heath@hotmail.com Staff: Christie Duncan-Tessmer 215-241-7008 or e-mail: christiedt@pym.org, or 1-800-220-0796, extension 7008 |
| Pilgrimage
to England A bi-annual event sponsored by Philadelphia
Yearly Meeting which invites Friends to share their journey with other
PYM Friends in the Lake District and Cumbria where early Quakers explored
their own spiritual journeys. The next pilgrimage will be June 28-July
13, 2004. If you wish to receive information, please contact Deborra
Sines Pancoe at cpancoe@verizon.net
There is limited financial aid available for Quaker teachers. More
information and a flyer Clerk: Deborra Sines Pancoe at 215-887-0995 or cpancoe@verizon.net Staff: Tom Hoopes · tomh@pym.org · 1-800-220-0796, extension 7224 |
| Quaker College
Fair A bi-annual event
co-sponsored by PYM Education Programs, Friends Association for Higher
Education and the Friends Council on Education, which encourages students
at Friends high schools to attend. The next Quaker College Fair will
take place at Arch Street Meetinghouse on October 4th, 2003,
from 1:00-5:00 p.m. For information, please contact Elke Muller at
215-241-7223, e-mail: elkem@pym.org,
1-800-220-0796, extension 7223 . More
information. Staff: Tom Hoopes · tomh@pym.org · 1-800-220-0796, extension 7224 |
| Friends
in Public Education provides
support to projects and activities of the several hundred Friends
in PYM whom teach and work in non-Friends schools. This support takes
the form of: administering a small grants program for projects in
the public schools that support Friends testimonies (in an advisory
role to the Granting Group); providing curriculum resources and other
information of interest to Quaker educators; and connecting these
educators with one another and the broader PYM community. See also
PYM Covenant on Education, July 24, 1999. Staff: Tom Hoopes · tomh@pym.org · 1-800-220-0796, extension 7224 |
| Children's
Sessions Planning Groupmeets
3-4 times a year to plan the agenda and program and to support the
volunteer staff of the Children's Sessions at PYM Residential Yearly
Meeting. contact Children's Sessions Planning Group if you would like
to help plan children's Sessions or are interested in volunteering
to staff the Children's Sessions. Clerk: Melanie Douty 215-736-0948 or e-mail: melanie.douty@gmail.com Staff: Christie Duncan-Tessmer 215-241-7008 or e-mail: christiedt@pym.org, or 1-800-220-0796, extension 7008 |
| The YouthQuake
Working Group of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting supports
and guides the PYM representative to the National YouthQuake planning
committee. The Working Group works to raise awareness of the importance
of YouthQuake within the meetings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting,
to our young people, and as the gathering approaches, recruits Young
Friends and young adults ages 14-20 as well as Friendly Adult Presences
(chaperones) to attend. Clerk: Aaron Crosman ACrosman@afsc.org Staff: Cookie Caldwell at 215-241-7222, e-mail: cookiec@pym.org 1-800-220-0796, extension 7222 |
Affiliated Organizations:
- Friends Association
for Higher Education
- Friends Council
on Education
- Friends Education Fund Inc.
- Friends General Conference
FGC Bookstore
FGC Religious Education
- George School
- Westtown School
Adult Religious Education:
- Adult Religious Education is a program of the Standing Committee on Worship and Care.
Copyright © 2003, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
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