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I am Jane Fremon, and I welcome you to Fremon & Friends Consulting.
As an educator with decades of experience, I am here to support teachers, administrators, and school communities in the process of exploring purpose and deepening practice.
Let us not only acknowledge, but let us embrace the truth that there is no “going back to normal” in the aftermath of this pandemic. Read more…
In case you don’t already know me, let me introduce myself…
As I prepared to launch this Fremon & Friends website, I asked a dozen or so friends and longtime colleagues to throw some words together that could speak to my work with children, teachers, and schools. Here’s a sampling of what I received, the first of which is from a luminary in the education world, known and revered far and wide, whom I’m proud to call family.
Full disclosure: Jane Fremon and I are sisters. She and I have both been involved in education for our entire professional lives, which adds up to decades. It’s true that we’ve plowed somewhat different furrows – I’ve worked in the public school environment, while she’s spent her career in independent schools, and in particular in the rich tradition of Quaker education.
But while Jane’s and my educational “worlds” have been somewhat separate, we share many beliefs and approaches. In particular, we both find sustenance in the creativity and resilience of children, and are impressed, daily, by their keen search for understanding and connection. We have both embraced the notion of students’ dogged search for understanding, and of the power of the human mind to construct knowledge from experience and reflection on that experience. I have learned a great deal from Jane, as I know the educators who have worked with her on a daily basis have done as well.
I’ve known Jane Fremon for over thirty years. My daughter attended Princeton Friends School for eight years soon after its founding; I served on the PFS board for eighteen years, including five years as chair; and as a fellow educator, I’ve had countless conversations with Jane about teaching children. She is the most inspired and inspiring school leader I’ve ever met. Jane embodies that seeming contradiction: the grounded visionary. She can articulate a deeply moving sense of the way that good schools can transform society, and she can also talk in detail about the best way to teach fourth-grade math. It’s a privilege to learn from someone so passionate and deeply informed about progressive, child-centered education
Fremon & Friends Consulting, LLC
Langhorne, Pennsylvania
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