Global learning at Friends includes signature international
programs--the International
Baccalaureate (IB), School Year
Abroad (SYA), and three modern languages: Chinese, French, and
Spanish. Language study begins in pre-kindergarten (Spanish).
More broadly and fundamentally, global education at Friends is
reflected in a curriculum- and school-wide approach to education
that prepares students for the challenges and opportunities of
their future, even those that we cannot predict.
The world is changing quickly, fueled by technological progress
measured in “machine generations” as short as one or
two years. Friends offers an unsurpassed college preparatory
program in terms of content in each academic discipline, and in the
range and depth of academic and leadership skills that apply across
disciplines and outside of the classroom. We recognize that the
careers our students will pursue may not even exist yet, and the
program at Friends is designed to prepare students for whatever the
future brings.
* Friends students learn how to engage complex questions
intellectually—with multi-layered, open-minded, truly
"global" thinking.
* They learn the academic and leadership skills to engage
challenges in and outside of the classroom, with a sense of
responsibility and confidence that they can communicate, act, and
lead effectively.
* They learn how to listen and how to work with people of
different points of view.
* And they learn that the faster the world changes, the more
important their own foundation of values and ethics becomes.
Global education is coordinated throughout the curriculum,
culminating in the IB program. Friends was the first school in
Delaware authorized to offer the IB, which is recognized around the
world as representing one of the highest standards—indeed, it
is often recognized as the highest standard—in
college preparatory education. Authorization as an IB school also
ensures international certification of quality across academic
disciplines, to the benefit of all of our students.
Additional global education programs, including School Year
Abroad and other international study and service learning programs,
are coordinated at Friends through the Quaker Center
for Understanding, Engagement, and Stewardship (QUEST).
Programs under the auspices of QUEST include service-learning
trips, and the “Big Ideas” and Lunch & Learn
speaker series on issues related to cross-cultural and
international understanding, social justice, and environmental
stewardship.
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