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A game of pickup basketball at Seger Park
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Monday, November 17 — All students will visit our new home in the Sixth Man Center. We will depart from 230 S. Broad St at 8:45am — please be on time. Students will return to Center City together by 3:30pm. If you prefer for your student to meet us at Sixth Man at 9am (or depart directly from there at 2:30pm), please email Carolyn. We invite all parents to join us anytime between 2:30–4:30pm for a tour! Please let your student know you are coming so they can meet you there. Important additional details: Please wear your Revolution School t-shirt (and comfortable clothing and shoes to run around), bring a water bottle, and pack a bag lunch or bring $10-12 for the cafeteria.
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Monday, November 24, 5–8pm — Revolution School partner PYB is hosting a Fall Festival Rodeo & Turkey Drive at our new home, The Sixth Man Center. Games, costume contest, line dancing! Please click this link for all details.
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Tuesday, November 25 — Friendsgiving hosted by the Student Leadership Council! Please support your student to bring something to share for lunch, such as an entrée, side dish, dessert, or drink.
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Wednesday, November 26 – Monday, December 1 — School is closed for Thanksgiving/Fall break
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Tuesday, December 2 — School reopens
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Wednesday, December 10, 7:30pm — Support fellow student, Xiang Ni (grade 12), in the free Curtis Recital Series at Gould Rehearsal Hall, 1616 Locust Street. Please click this link for more information and to reserve your tickets!
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In US History, Judge Stella Tsai spoke with grades 11 and 12 about the court system in Pennsylvania. She served for ten years on the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas and was recently elected to the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court, where she will begin serving this January.
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SAT Prep
After reviewing their practice PSAT results last week, our 11th graders officially kicked off SAT Prep for the Spring 2026 exam. This week, we took a closer look at both the Math and Reading/Writing sections, going over some key strategies that help the test feel more manageable and boost students’ confidence. Students saw how we can work with the answer choices to make Math problems easier to tackle, and in Reading/Writing, they learned to rely less on reading the passage and more on reading the answer choices. And of course, we emphasized the three biggest keys to improvement: practice, practice, and more practice!
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Math
This week, 9th graders began wrapping up their Linear Functions unit by working with absolute value, both graphing and solving, to see how we work with the “distance from zero.”
Algebra 2 and College Algebra students launched a new unit on Systems of Equations using real-world data about the costs and benefits of college. We graphed how long it takes for a college graduate to “catch up” financially, used substitution to see the impact of scholarships and majors, and applied elimination to understand how cities benefit when graduates stay local.
In Geometry, students broke out the Uno cards — not to play, but to practice logical reasoning. Using card sequences, they built the foundation for writing formal proofs. Triangles are coming soon, but for now, they explained how you might get from a Red 7 to a Blue Draw 2 using clear, step-by-step logic.
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Wellness Speaker Series
Kunal Pathade spoke to grades 9 and 10 about mental health and coping tools like writing, art, and movement.
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Community Building
This week, students participated in a Big Sib/Little Sib competition: how many plastic cups can you balance on your sibling?
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Congratulations to Grant (grade 10) who was published in Philadelphia Stories JR — a nonprofit literary magazine publishing student fiction, poetry, and art from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware!
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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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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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