New Garden Friends School, an absolute preschool through 12th-grade educational academy in N.C. affiliated with the Quaker faith, has been called the aboriginal bookish hub for Boston University-based Axis of Hope, an all-embracing nonprofit adherent to battle prevention. New Garden agents will be certified to advance Axis of Hope workshops and will use the organization's class in their classrooms. They aswell will alternation added educators in the techniques the foundation uses to advice kids understand, administer and anticipate conflict. We chose New Garden Friends School not alone because of its bookish arete and accelerating teaching techniques, but aswell because of its charge to Quaker ethics that adjust with our foundation's mission Students are accomplished to account anniversary other, seek for the truth, boldness battle affably and accept the accent of community, administration and the environment. If we go into a academy disturbing with assemblage abandon or added annihilative behaviors, we activate by accepting the acceptance to focus on a above battle in the Middle East, Africa or some added all-around hotspot - far removed from the classroom Then they are bigger able to footfall aback and administer what they've abstruse to the battle in their own lives. That's the magic. Peace is one of the fundamentals of the Quaker acceptance and underpins how our agents and acceptance plan calm to anticipate and administer battle in the classroom Through our amalgamation with the Axis of Hope, we apprehend to body on that acquaintance and to advise acceptance the abilities they charge to become leaders in an added circuitous world.
Greensboro, NC -- Today New Garden Friends School appear a new collaborative affiliation with the celebrated Axis of Hope Center for International Conflict Prevention based at Boston University. New Garden agents will be certified to advance Axis of Hope workshops and will use the organization's class in their classrooms alpha September 21, International Peace Day. They aswell will alternation added educators in the techniques the foundation uses to advice kids understand, administer and anticipate conflict.
New Garden Friends School is an independent, preschool-12th brand educational academy affiliated with the Quaker acceptance community. It is the aboriginal alignment to be called by the Axis of Hope to abutment and extend its work.
"We chose New Garden Friends School not alone because of its bookish arete and accelerating teaching techniques, but aswell because of its charge to Quaker ethics that adjust with our foundation's mission," said drillmaster Carl Hobert, architect of Axis of Hope. "Students are accomplished to account anniversary other, seek for the truth, boldness battle affably and accept the accent of community, administration and the environment."
The plan of the Axis of Hope is ashore on the simple apriorism that it is best to advice kids apprentice to administer battle during their determinative years, afore they become accustomed by activity experiences. Through creatively-designed workshops offered in elementary, average and top schools about the globe, acceptance role-play and get hands-on convenance in defusing and managing airy situations. "If we go into a academy disturbing with assemblage abandon or added annihilative behaviors, we activate by accepting the acceptance to focus on a above battle in the Middle East, Africa or some added all-around hotspot - far removed from the classroom," Hobert said. "Then they are bigger able to footfall aback and administer what they've abstruse to the battle in their own lives. That's the magic."
David Tomlin, arch of New Garden Friends School, says the accord with Axis of Hope extends initiatives that are already underway at the school.
"Peace is one of the fundamentals of the Quaker acceptance and underpins how our agents and acceptance plan calm to anticipate and administer battle in the classroom," he said. "Through our amalgamation with the Axis of Hope, we apprehend to body on that acquaintance and to advise acceptance the abilities they charge to become leaders in an added circuitous world."
Training for the New Garden Friends School agents will get underway during September. For added advice on the Axis of Hope, appointment www.axisofhope.org. For added advice on New Garden Friends School, appointment www.ngfs.org.
About New Garden Friends School
Founded in 1971, New Garden Friends School is allotment of a centuries-old attitude of Quaker apprenticeship and is committed to the Quaker testimonies of peace, equality, truth, integrity, simplicity, association and stewardship. An interdisciplinary, hands-on access to acquirements is advised to advice acceptance bare their strengths, accurate themselves absolutely and become breath association leaders.
New Garden Friends School serves pre-kindergarten through 8th graders from a lower-middle academy on the Guilford College campus and 9th-12th graders from an high academy on Pleasant Ridge Road. The alignment is a affiliate of the Friends Council on Education, an affiliation of added than 80 Friends schools above the nation committed to arete in education.
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