Friends School of Minnesota is a K-8 progressive education school grounded in Quaker values. FSMN was founded in 1988 and is located in the Midway neighborhood of Saint Paul, convenient to South Minneapolis. We are a diverse community with students from a broad range of religious and non-religious backgrounds, including ten percent from Quaker families.
Then, as we reflect together, we ask, “What did we miss? Whose perspective is missing? How were we successful? Why were we successful?” This level of critical thinking is the foundation for excelling academically, questioning perspectives, and investigating whose story is being heard (or not heard). These are key factors in building honest and respectful […] Read more
“Bee”ing the ChangeThe EAC students studied how neonicotinoids affect bees, which in turn affects our crops and our food. EAC students educated children in the lower school about bees, how they are threatened, and what that means for our food and our environment. As part of their lesson about bees, they made bee antennae out […] Read more
Students rolled compost, soil, sand, and 3 types of seeds into balls. These seed bombs will be thrown at a field trip on April 14th to Coldwater Spring, a part of the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area that is being restored to an oak savanna/prairie complex. FSMN students have been going to Coldwater Spring and doing service work there since […] Read more
One spring day, a year and a half ago, I was across the street from Friends School of Minnesota in Horton Park on recess duty with our 5th and 6th graders. Horton Park is a square-block city park in the Midway neighborhood of St. Paul. It is a mini-arboretum with an open field, native gardens, […] Read more
