• Curriculum: Educating The Whole Child
• Healthy Choices
• Social and Emotional
• Learning Through Expression
• Meeting Individual Needs
• Resources To Enhance Learning
• Community Service Program
• After School Program

• Elementary School
• Middle School
• Upper School

MMFS Community Service Program

In keeping with the Quaker value of service to others, the goal of Mary McDowell Friends School community service program is to expose students to their potential impact on the world at a local, national, and global level. In doing so, we hope to instill a sense of social responsibility, respect for all life, and an awareness of diversity.

Participation in this program will develop students' understanding of the many complex issues facing our world today. Through collaboration and compassion, students will realize their capacity to effect change. Using the service learning model students will have an opportunity to reflect upon the importance of their contributions and recognize the inherent reward in helping others.

The service-learning model consists of three equally important parts.

1. Thinking: The first step is to prepare the students for action. This happens in the classroom by means of class discussions, guest speakers and reading books on the specific topics.


2. Acting: The second step is to perform the actual service. This happens at the site where the service will take place.


3. Feeling: The third and final step involves reflection. This can also happen at the site and/or in the classroom. Class discussions, written reflections and artwork are only a few effective ways for students to express their feelings about the project

Below is a partial list of the projects planned for the 2009-10 school year:

• Coin Drive to benefit animal organizations
• Food Drive to benefit City Harvest
• Quaker Cemetery Clean Up
• Students' Book Drive to benefit The Warren Street Center for Children
• Read-A-Thon to benefit our Sister School in Uganda
• Earth Day Service Projects