QuakerEd Collaborative
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Special Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Mid-Atlantic Gathering of Educators at Quaker Schools
Please join us for our annual gathering of educators from Mid-Atlantic area Friends schools. We share pictures of practice and share ideas about integrating Quakerism into the life of our schools. We share ideas about Quaker education and curricula, have conversations, make connections, and more!
Saturday, May 5, 2018, 10:00 AM
National Portrait Gallery: 8th Street Northwest, Washington D.C., DC, USA
Let Your Life Speak Tour
Quakers lift up/value the truth that each of us has access to a spiritual light. Referred to as our Inward Light or Inner Light, Quakers believe that by “shining” that Light, by looking to our own inward teacher/guide, we can live lives that speak to truth, goodness, peace, equality, kindness.
We will explore these ideas and connect them to action through this tour of some of the Quakers in the NPG collection. We will share teaching plans for bringing this work back to our learners. This tour is meant to serve as an interactive example of using art in order to examine and build our understanding of Quaker testimonies and how they might connect to Letting our Lives Speak.
Artful Thinking intersects with Quakerism
Thinking Routines
Routines exist in all classrooms; they are the patterns by which we operate and go about the job of learning and working together in a classroom environment. A routine can be thought of as any procedure, process, or pattern of action that is used repeatedly to manage and facilitate the accomplishment of specific goals or tasks. Classrooms have routines that serve to manage student behavior and interactions, to organizing the work of learning, and to establish rules for communication and discourse. Classrooms also have routines that structure the way students go about the process of learning. These learning routines can be simple structures, such as reading from a text and answering the questions at the end of the chapter, or they may be designed to promote students' thinking, such as asking students what they know, what they want to know, and what they have learned as part of a unit of study.
Developing Understanding
- Encourage Inquiry
- Slow Looking
- Practice Articulation
- Improve Observational Skills
- Improve Working Memory
- Develop Questions
- Make it Safe
- Introduce a Topic or Object
- Wonder about differences and similarities
- Examine Differing Points of View
Portraits of Quakers
The collection includes:
- Sir William Penn (15 Oct 1644 - 30 Jul 1718) Inward Teacher and Education
- Joseph Pennell (4 Jul 1857 - 23 Apr 1926) Truth
- Edward Hicks (4 Apr 1780 - 23 Aug 1849) Peace vs. Simplicity
- Elisha Tyson (1749 - 16 Feb 1824) Freedom
- Patience Lovell Wright (1725 - 23 Mar 1786) Honorifics and Plain Speech (That of God)
- Jane Addams (6 Sep 1860 - 21 May 1935) Community
- Samuel Hanson Cox (179Lucretia Coffin Mott (3 Jan 1793 - 11 Nov 1880) Equality - Peace, Serving in the Military
- Paul Cuffee (17 Jan 1759 - 7 Sep 1817) Freedom
- Herbert Clark Hoover (10 Aug 1874 - 20 Oct 1964) Community
- Benjamin Lay (c. 1681 - 3 Feb 1759) Equality and Action
- Dolley Dandridge Payne Todd Madison (20 May 1768 - 12 Jul 1849) Simplicity and Service
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We look forward to seeing you in May!
Alexandra Whyte
Denise Coffin
Email: coffind@sidwell.edu
Twitter: @teamcoffin