Diversity, Equity, and Community

Building community requires truth-telling, bravery, courage, and grace.

Nikki Young, PHD, Vice President for Institutional Equity and Access, Haverford College

At Far Brook, our diverse community provides each of us with so much invaluable knowledge and experience – important truths that challenge stereotypes and affirm our best ideals. Knowing this, we share a commitment to diversity, equity, and community in all aspects of school life.

As a community, we represent a spectrum of identities, heritages, families, cultures, interests, and perspectives, and believe this diversity makes us the strongest kind of learning environment – one that invests in understanding the experiences of others, develops the capability for critical thinking, and instills in each of us a sense of belonging and a thirst for equity and social justice.

Here, we believe that “childhood happens once” and know we have a great responsibility as these are the years when our students are forming early impressions and gaining knowledge that will serve as the foundation for their future engagement as global citizens in an ever-changing world. Our curriculum provides both windows and mirrors with which to support students’ emerging understanding of the world, and our beloved arts inspire and inform, offering rich opportunities for empathy, self-expression, shared experience, and joy.

Through a myriad of diversity initiatives within and beyond the classroom, we encourage students to adopt a wider lens through which to view their own possibilities and those of others.

Far Brook’s commitment to diversity, equity, and building community is steadfast. With diligence, honesty, flexibility, and compassion we make strides towards becoming the community we aspire to be. And this is an all-school effort. An active, committed parent community partners with our skilled and compassionate faculty and administration in this daily pursuit. Join us, as we learn and grow together, joyfully celebrating our commonalities and our differences, forming relationships, and sharing experiences that inspire and guide us during our Far Brook years and beyond. Read Far Brook’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice.