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Students visit Kadampa Buddhist Meditation Center
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Monday, October 13 — School Closed (Indigenous Peoples’ Day)
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Tuesday, October 14, 6:30–8pm — Philadelphia Regional College Fair. Students and their families are encouraged to attend this free college fair at Thomas Jefferson University, hosted by Pennsylvania Association for College Admission Counseling (PACAC). Click this link for a list of all participating colleges. Students must register here. Thomas Jefferson University’s Gallagher Athletic Center, 4201 Henry Avenue.
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Saturday, October 25, 11am–3pm — National College Fair Philadelphia. Students and their families are encouraged to attend this free college fair at the PA Convention Center, hosted by the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC). Click this link for a list of all participating colleges. Students must register here.
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Thursday, October 30 — Revolution School celebrates Halloween, 12:15–3:30pm
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Friday, October 31 — School Closed; End of Quarter 1
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Wednesday, November 5 — Quarter 1 Academic Reports sent home
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Last night, Revolution School hosted our annual Back to School event, where families experienced firsthand what students are working on both in and beyond the classroom. We also provided more information about our upcoming move this January 2026 to PYB’s Sixth Man Center, and introduced Ameen Akbar, who is PYB’s Chief Mission Officer. We will continue to collect information and resources and will keep you in the loop regarding the transition to the new space.
We also heard from Kalle Cooper, who leads our Community Outreach efforts. She invited us to help grow RevNet — Revolution School’s network of people and places that support student learning. We’re excited to involve all of our families in this initiative, and you’ll be hearing more from Kalle soon! Thank you to all of our Revolution School families.
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Grades 9 and 10 wrapped up their study of Buddhism with a visit to Kadampa Buddhist Meditation Center. They asked insightful questions about rituals, worship, and the role of women, connecting what they had learned in the classroom to what they were seeing and hearing from practicing Buddhists.
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Deborah Gross, CEO and President of Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts (PMC), spoke with US History students about the court system. PMC’s mission is a Pennsylvania judicial system in which everyone who participates is assured impartiality, fairness, accessibility, and respect. Deborah will be returning monthly with judges, lawyers, and others to lend their expertise to our studies.
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In US Literature, grades 11 and 12 read and annotated Kindred by Octavia Butler.
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In math, Algebra 1 students explored the connections between patterns, equations, and linear functions. Grade 10 explored conditional statements by creating comic books and slideshows for the assignment: If You Give a Mouse a Geometry Project, discovering along the way that “if you give a Geometry student a fun and interesting project, then they’ll enjoy learning math!”
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Meanwhile in 11th and 12th grade math, students ran imaginary companies, paying themselves and their employees, then used the skills learned this unit to analyze their pay structure and decide, “Would I work for my company?”
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11th and 12th grade students visited Swarthmore College, where they were given an insider tour by alumna Sydnie Schwarz! Students got a taste of campus life — sitting in on a sociology class, dining in the hall, and exploring spaces ranging from lab classrooms to the Center for Innovation & Leadership.
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Wellness
Grades 9 and 10 were able to enjoy the beautiful autumn weather at Seger Park.
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SquashSmarts representatives came in to talk with our students about their amazing afterschool program.
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Community-Building
At this week’s all-school assembly, our 9th-grade students led two high-energy, interactive games: Swap, a creative drawing activity where students begin a sketch that is passed to a classmate to continue the artwork; and Cone, a fast-paced reflex game, where players follow verbal commands, racing to grab a cone (or in this case a designated object) when prompted.
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Kenny (Grade 9) and Grant (Grade 10) enjoy a game of chess
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Handball Camp for Girls — September 12–October 24, 3:30-5:30pm. For girls 10-17, boys welcome too! Takes place at the Mascher & Allegheny Handball Courts. Click this link to learn more!
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Black & Gold 2.0 Workshops — September–March, 11am–2pm every other Saturday. These workshops are for Black and East Asian teens in the areas of Community Building, Mental Health, and Professional Development. Most workshops take place at at Crane Community Center in Chinatown (1001 Vine St., Philadelphia, PA 19107). Click this link to learn more and register.
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PACAC College Fair — Tuesday, October 14, 6:30–8pm at Thomas Jefferson University, Gallagher Athletic Center, 4201 Henry Avenue. Hosted by Pennsylvania Association for College Admission Counseling, this regional fair provides high school students and their families a chance to connect with participating colleges.
You must register here — they will send you a personal barcode to be shown to colleges of interest so they can scan it and send you more information. Click this link to learn more.
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NACAC National College Fair Philadelphia — Saturday, October 25, 11am–3pm at the PA Convention Center, hosted by the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC). Click this link for a list of all participating colleges. Students must register here.
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Roots to Routes: A Call Forward — January 26–28 in Philadelphia. This new national student conference is by the same founder who led the Student Diversity Leadership Conference (which has been paused). Like SDLC, it’s designed for independent school students, educators, and administrators, centering the voices and well-being of those most often marginalized. Click here to learn more and please talk to Sydnie if you are interested in attending.
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PLEASE HELP US SPREAD THE WORD
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