Tuition: 90 per household

Schedule: 4 Sessions | 7:00-8:30 pm, TBD  in September/October

Course: This four-week program, led by Dr. Renee Prillaman and guest experts, will equip parents, guardians, grandparents, and educators with tools to foster resilience within the family amidst the acutely felt challenges children and families currently face.

In Week One, participants will preview the course and then explore ways that practices of Quaker education can serve to build resiliency in their children (whether Quaker or not), empowering them to meet challenges with greater resilience.

Each of the following three weeks will explore one of these topics in depth:

• Exploring resiliency through the lens of a family system and examining the ways in which we model resiliency as parents and build it within our family system as a primary resource for our children. Renowned educator-author and family systems therapist Jean McLendon will join as a guest expert.
• Equipping participants to meet children’s complex needs considering the significant weight children carry as they experience, witness, and process racial and social injustice. A guest expert will join us.
• Preparing participants to meet the reopening of school in the fall with resiliency. A guest expert will join us.

This course is a parent education program of CFS' new institute for teaching and learning. Parents/guardians , grandparents, and educators from anywhere are welcome.

Facilitator: A. Renee Prillaman holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction and has over 40 years of teaching and administrative experience. For 16 years she taught in the Carolina Friends Lower and Middle Schools, and spent nine of them as head of the Middle School. In 2013 Renee became CFS' first Assistant Head for Teaching and Learning and subsequently has served a total of a year and a half as Acting and then Interim Head of School.

She followed her children to Friends School after teaching at UNC and Duke for 10 years, and continues to serve as Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Program in Education at Duke. Renee’s children are both CFS graduates. Renee has taught for the Southern Association of Independent Schools New Teacher Institute and the North Carolina Association of Independent Schools New Teacher Institute and completed the Engaging Leadership Institute, a two-year program with the Friends Council on Education.

Renee, a member of the Chapel Hill Friends Meeting, helped found Peaceful Schools NC and served on the Board of the North Carolina Psychoanalytic Foundation.

Tuition: 25 per household

Schedule: 1 Session | 7:00-8:30 pm, Saturday, August 15

Course: North Carolina hasn’t released final plans for what K-12 learning will look like in the fall, but educators and families alike predict that digital learning is going to play a role in the upcoming school year. That's true at Carolina Friends too. With a bit of training and a guide to lead the way, Mount Digital Learning can be an enjoyable hike that presents unique ways for your child to rediscover the joy of learning!

Join current educator and soon-to-be school administrator Marissa Minnick for an overview of K-12 digital learning tools that are on the forefront of digital instruction and tips for how to make the journey as smooth as possible.

Participants will be invited to download a curated library of custom digital learning tips and tools at the end of the training.

This course is a parent education program of CFS' new institute for teaching and learning. Parents/guardians , grandparents, and educators from anywhere are welcome.

Instructor: Marissa Minnick is a Durham native who was a passionate young designer herself as a child. She attended Riverside High School and graduated from the Interior Design Career Pathway program, at which point she headed to the Blue Ridge Mountains to attend Appalachian State University. At ASU, Marissa embarked on another lifelong passion: studying education and educator development. She earned her B.S. and M.A. in Elementary Education before returning to Durham with her husband. Marissa is currently an educator at Discovery Charter School.

When she's not teaching science or splattered in a bit of paint, Marissa enjoys gardening, reading, swimming in the Eno River, playing board games, and spending time with her husband and their two-year-old bearded dragon, Ginny.

Tuition: 15 per session per household

Schedule: 3 Sessions (join one or join them all!) | 6:00-7:30 pm, Saturdays, July 18, 25, August 1

Course: Compete head to head with other Summer Programs families in the ultimate trivia throwdown! Each family will be a team encouraged to work together and rely on each other's collective knowledge. Answering an array of questions based on topics such as movies, music, history, and sports--dating from the 1960’s all the way to 2020.

The winner of every session will be crowned the Summer Programs Trivia Champion and will hold the title until dethroned. The experience will hopefully bring out some fun, competitive spirit as well as some serious family bonding and learning!

Instructor: Our Alex Trebek for Family Trivia Nights is Marshall Wilfong, who was born and raised in Durham. An Eagle Scout from Troop 400, he’s been volunteering and working as a summer camp counselor since the age of 12. When he was 15 he got his first job as a merit badge counselor at Camp Raven Knob instructing First Aid, Search and Rescue, Safety, Camping, and Wilderness Survival. His time spent in the Scouts gave him a massive amount of respect for the outdoors as well as for the youth he instructs. Marshall has also been an after-school counselor at the Orange County Sportsplex and Aldersgate UMC.

He now works as the Extended Day Teacher for the Carolina Friends Middle School as well as a substitute for the Upper School.