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Alumni Duncan McGillivray-Smith, Class of 2017, Receives Rave Art Review

Hope Tarullo December 4, 2025 No Comments

We first profiled alumni Duncan McGillivray-Smith (MMFS ‘17) in 2023, when he had just graduated from Pratt Institute with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting. Fast forward to 2025: He…

PA Grant Report: Landmark College Summer Institute for Educators

Hope Tarullo November 20, 2025 No Comments

Upper School English teacher Candace Carr attended a day of workshops and presentations at Landmark College in Vermont. Landmark is one of the only accredited colleges in the U.S. designed…

Alumni Spotlight: Justin White

Hope Tarullo November 20, 2025 No Comments

It’s very special when an MMFS alum returns as a teacher. So we are very excited to shine the alumni spotlight on Justin White, now teaching PE at the lower…

PA Grant Report: Promoting Basic Functional Emotional Development Capacities

Hope Tarullo November 20, 2025 No Comments

Lower school occupational therapist Anjali Patel, MS, OTR/L took a course on understanding and supporting the social-emotional development of children through a developmental, relationship-based approach, part of the DIR® Floortime™…

Shining the Light on LD: ADHD

Hope Tarullo November 19, 2025 No Comments

Mary McDowell Friends School is designed to meet the unique needs of students diagnosed with learning disabilities like ADHD. We define a learning disability as a neurological condition that causes…

Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities: An MMFS Professional Development Day

Hope Tarullo November 10, 2025 No Comments

This year, for our annual Fall Professional Development Day, we did something different. Instead of inviting an outside expert to speak about teaching students with learning disabilities, we turned to…

Shining the Light on LD: Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, and Dysgraphia

Hope Tarullo October 1, 2025 No Comments

This article on dyslexia, dyscalculia, and dysgraphia is reproduced from the upcoming publication Shining the Light on LD: MMFS Learning Disabilities Handbook. One of last year’s most popular newsletter articles…

Quakerism Is A Skill

randybrett September 17, 2025 No Comments

by Head of School André Del Valle A Reflection on Community I like to think of Quakerism as a skill—one that we continually learn, teach, and practice. The Quaker values…

MMFS at ALDS

Hope Tarullo August 18, 2025 No Comments

MMFS was well represented at this year’s ALDS Leadership Retreat. The Association for LD Schools held its annual Leadership Retreat in Seattle this summer. ALDS’s mission is to “connect and…

PA Grant Report: Conservation Ecology with the American Museum of Natural History

marcovescio May 29, 2025 No Comments

In preparation for her new role as a science teacher, lower school teacher Sunny Lawrence took a class on Conservation Ecology with the American Museum of Natural History. The course…

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