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Open Streets for Schools: Fostering Play and Education with Safe, Outdoor Learning Environments
Open Streets for Schools, a Department of Transportation program, closes streets surrounding public and independent schools. In a recent article for the New York Times, Bo Lauder cited the initiative “has been invaluable in fostering play, community, and connection.”
This is the fifth year Friends Seminary has had the opportunity to participate in the program, which offers a safe outdoor extension of the campus for the academic year while allowing us to maintain our high levels of safety.
Alyson Evans, Director of Operations, who has been instrumental in maintaining our relationship with the Department of Transportation, stated “Friends Seminary is grateful for Open Streets for Schools, which provides our students with an outdoor respite for recess and a unique opportunity for our faculty to hold classes outdoors.”
Friends Seminary actively promotes diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism in all its programs and operations, including admissions, financial aid, hiring, and all facets of the educational experience. To form a community which strives to reflect the world’s diversity, we do not discriminate on the basis of race or color, religion, nationality, ethnicity, economic background, physical ability, sex, gender identity or expression, or sexual orientation. Friends Seminary is an equal opportunity employer.
Friends Seminary — the oldest continuously operated, coeducational school in NYC — serves college-bound day students in Kindergarten-Grade 12.
