Meeting for Worship at a Quaker School

We have been challenged this year to find ways to share Meeting for Worship and other Quaker practices in a variety of in person school, at home learning, and all versions in between. We have begun to document these practices for teachers, students, and other members of our community.

In this lesson, we'll set up our space.

Where will you have Meeting for Worship?

What will your Center Table look like?

You might share this video with students and then ask them to spend some time reflecting on what items might belong on their center table. Why do those selected items matter to them? How will they help them during their worship?

Remember that there are many ways to worship and to be reflective. Students may practice a faith or non-faith tradition that connects with our Quaker identity along a spectrum. Find ways to celebrate and highlight those connections. Approach differences with curiosity, kindness, and openness.

Types of thinking encouraged: 

• Develop Questions
• Connect to Prior Knowledge
• Practice Articulation
• Safe Exploration of a Topic, Idea, or Object
• Wonder about Differences or Similarities
• Build an understanding around identity

Build a Testimony Tree: Remote Classrooms * Connected Learning

This week we began sharing brief video invitations for our young students. These invitations are provocations to continue to grow around ideas and elements of our Quaker identity.

Today, we begin by building a Testimony Tree.

Click here to see the lesson in its print version.

This invitation involves ideas around found items, natural materials, art, making, and printing. Students are invited to choose a media in which to create a tree for the purpose of exploring, documenting, and reflecting on Quaker and personal testimonies.