Please join us in thanking the Newman family for Andre’s remarkable service and in holding them in the Light. Officer Newman invested himself fully in the Sidwell Friends community and will be deeply missed.

Second graders' stories are brought to life through rolling robots.

Chinese IV students present their dream trips to China—with an eye towards making real-life connections.

The award-winning author Matt de la Peña visited with each School division and the community at large to talk about finding himself in books, the freedom of low expectations, and how writers are made, not born.

Ken Hakuta P ’98, ’00, and ’02 takes the Sidwell Friends community along for a tour of the new Nam June Paik retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Food, fun, and football (and soccer and field hockey and volleyball) made for a memorable return to in-person Homecoming festivities.

How one Sidwell Friends senior is connecting with migrant children through art.

Students explore healthy relationships, faculty learn about supporting LGBTQIA+ perspectives with the Human Rights Campaign. 

Silvana Niazi, the Señora Guillermina Medrano de Supervía Endowed Faculty Chair for Spanish and Latin American Studies, shares resources for families to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month—and discusses why it matters.

The largest gifts in Sidwell Friends history are setting the stage for a community fundraising challenge this fall. 

After a year-long delay, 8th grade Latin students get to take part in a fun (and fashionable) tradition.

Liza and John Marshall P ’14 discussed their new memoir Off Our Chests: A Candid Tour Through the World of Cancer—what they remember, what they regret, and what they'd never said to one another until now. 

Last Thursday we experienced the devastating loss of 11th grader Mikey Wood, a beloved friend and student who had a remarkable impact on the Upper School community. Friday morning we gathered in the Pearson Athletic Center to hold a Meeting for Worship in his honor.

Eight new signs at the Lower School celebrate not only Quaker testimonies, but collaboration, cooperation—and a lot of fun.

The class of 2025 kicked off their Upper School years with tours, UNO, community engagement, and fun.

New norms and old traditions merged as students returned to campus for the 2021/22 academic year. 

Merissa Nathan Gerson ’00 discussed how her new book "Forget Prayers, Bring Cake: A Single Woman's Guide to Grieving," helped her—and how she hopes it will help others

Athletics is at the core of the Sidwell Friends experience, and some alumni and current students have achieved incredible success.

We are excited to welcome new people to the Sidwell Friends community, as well as celebrate some old friends who are now in new positions. 

The Class of 2020 returns to campus for an emotional tribute and joyous celebration.

Woodworking! Coding! Fashion! All are part of Sidwell Summer, which returned to in-person activities this summer.

Former Sidwell Friends teacher Richard Brady and Kim Seashore ’87 discuss the value of mindfulness—in life and in classrooms.

How Live in the Lights, a nonprofit started by Adie Selassie ’22, is enabling people along the Texas-Mexico border to access clean, reliable electricity.

The new series of camps for high schoolers kicked off with GenHERation Exploration, where campers learned about becoming ethical leaders from powerful women from across the country. 

Asmi Pareek ’23 received recognition from the Association of Women in Mathematics for her essay on math teacher Yolanda Rolle, but the real prize was learning how to look at math in a new way.

With college visits off the table, the Alumni Office connected young Sidwell Friends alumni with current students.