Quaker schools in Bucks County include Newtown Friends School pre-K to 8, and George School 9-12 in Newtown, Buckingham Friends School K-8, United Friends School in Quakertown, The Quaker School at Horsham K-8, and Wrightstown Friends Nursery School.

Quaker Education Expert Drew Smith to Speak to Newtown Quakers

Drew Smith, Executive Director of the Friends Council on Education, will speak on Quaker Schools in the Age of High Technology at the historic Newtown Quaker Meetinghouse, 219 Court Street (www.newtownfriendsmeeting.org) on Sunday, May 31 at 9:45 a.m. The public is invited to attend.

Friends Council on Education includes 82 Quaker schools in 22 states with 20,166 students, 4,930 faculty and staff, and 1,160 Trustees and Boards members.

Among the Quaker schools are Penn Charter, the fifth oldest school in the country founded in 1689 in Philadelphia, and Sidwell Friends School in Washington D.C.

Sidwell Friends School is well known as the school of choice by the children of several US Presidents, including Theodore Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama.

Quaker schools in Bucks County include Newtown Friends School pre-K to 8, and George School 9-12 in Newtown, Buckingham Friends School K-8, United Friends School in Quakertown, The Quaker School at Horsham K-8, and Wrightstown Friends Nursery School.

Smith will speak about his own experience in Friends Education which began as a student at Westtown School and continues today as head of the national organization of Quaker elementary and secondary schools.

Of particular interest to Drew is “ the way in which Quaker Schools are now challenged to maintain the integrity of their missions, even as technology has created uncertainty for schools in the way in which academic programs will be offered in future.”

Drew Smith has been a member of the Religious Society of Friends for 41 years and is currently a member of Haddonfield Quaker Meeting (NJ). Drew attended Earlham College, and the University of Pennsylvania. His 25 years of professional experience in Quaker education includes being Head of School at Mullica Hill Friends School (NJ), former trustee at Westtown School and Moorestown Friends School, a member of the Committee on Friends Education and as a board member of the Association of Delaware Valley Independent Schools. He is also a founding board member of Friends Mutual Health Group.

Newtown Friends Meeting co-founded by “Peaceable Kingdom” painter and Quaker minister, Edward Hicks, in 1815, is open to all who wish to attend. Regular First Day Education classes (Sunday School) for all ages begin at 9:45 a.m. and Meeting for Worship begins at 11 a.m. Childcare is provided. The public is invited to attend.

Friends Council on Education includes 82 Quaker schools in 22 states with 20,166 students, 4,930 faculty and staff, and 1,160 Trustees and Boards members.

Among the Quaker schools are Penn Charter, the fifth oldest school in the country founded in 1689 in Philadelphia, and Sidwell Friends School in Washington D.C.

Sidwell Friends School is well known as the school of choice by the children of several US Presidents, including Theodore Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama.

Quaker schools in Bucks County include Newtown Friends School pre-K to 8, and George School 9-12 in Newtown, Buckingham Friends School K-8, United Friends School in Quakertown, The Quaker School at Horsham K-8, and Wrightstown Friends Nursery School.

Smith will speak about his own experience in Friends Education which began as a student at Westtown School and continues today as head of the national organization of Quaker elementary and secondary schools.

Of particular interest to Drew is “ the way in which Quaker Schools are now challenged to maintain the integrity of their missions, even as technology has created uncertainty for schools in the way in which academic programs will be offered in future.”

Drew Smith has been a member of the Religious Society of Friends for 41 years and is currently a member of Haddonfield Quaker Meeting (NJ). Drew attended Earlham College, and the University of Pennsylvania. His 25 years of professional experience in Quaker education includes being Head of School at Mullica Hill Friends School (NJ), former trustee at Westtown School and Moorestown Friends School, a member of the Committee on Friends Education and as a board member of the Association of Delaware Valley Independent Schools. He is also a founding board member of Friends Mutual Health Group.

Newtown Friends Meeting co-founded by “Peaceable Kingdom” painter and Quaker minister, Edward Hicks, in 1815, is open to all who wish to attend. Regular First Day Education classes (Sunday School) for all ages begin at 9:45 a.m. and Meeting for Worship begins at 11 a.m. Childcare is provided.