Mary McDowell Friends School - Revealing Brilliance

Category: Lower School

New Video about Assistive Technology at MMFS

MMFS integrates educational and assistive technologies into curricula on all levels to create a dynamic learning environment for students. Hardware, such as whiteboards, sound amplifications systems, laptops, and tablets, and…
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Learning Disabilities
Mini-Unit and Curriculum

Mary McDowell Friends School defines learning disabilities in the following way: A learning disability is a neurological condition that causes difficulties with the way the brain handles information. Information coming…
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“What Do You Want to Learn in School This Year?

Elementary Division Director Hannah Wiltshire led the division’s first silent meeting of the year with the query, “What do you want to learn in school this year?” Among the responses from our students were…
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A Visit from
Dr. Marc Brackett

Dr. Marc Brackett is the rare university professor who gets rock star treatment when he visits MMFS. As the person who helped create classroom charters, the Mood Meter, and the…
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News from the ES Library

On February 5th the elementary school librarian Rebecca Beck and librarians from Brooklyn Friends School co-hosted a Friends Council on Education Librarians Peer Network Meeting. Thirty librarians from Quakers schools…
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Revealing brilliance
in every student.