Who's Rick?

Richard (Rick) S. Grier-Reynolds

rgrierreynolds@gmail.com

Education

            • Mountain Lakes, New Jersey Public Schools

            • Trinity College, Connecticut (B.A.History)

            • Harvard University (M.Ed in Administration, Planning and Social Policy)

 Responsibilities/Wilmington Friends School, Wilmington, Delaware

            • Retired, “Distinguished Teacher” and Head of the History/Social Science Department. Clerk of the Faculty, athletic coach and International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme Coordinator

Current Experience/ International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme

            • International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme Consultant & Site Visitor – (2005-2021)

             • Substitute teacher: Sussex Consortium & Cape Henlopen School District; Teacher, University of                 Delaware/Osher Academy of Life-Long Learning; Trustee, Wilmington Friends School; President, Cape Henlopen Educational Foundation (CHEF); Delaware Co-coordinator, Alternatives to Violence Project

Other Professional Development Experiences

            • Consulted with numerous teachers at the university and secondary level in developing Economics,    International Relations and Peace Studies curriculums.

            • Featured in educational films by the Friends Council on Education, “Close Up to Life” and “The Stock Market Game” by the University of Delaware and Securities Industry Trade Association.

• Traveled to regions where inter-communal violence has destabilized local communities  (Cyprus,      Lebanon, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico, Cuba, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina) and worked         as both a trainer and participant with a variety of reconciliation programs in these regions.

• Involved board member to various community and Quaker related organizations: Pacem in Terris, UN- USA  Assoc. of Delaware, Clerk, Balkans Concerns Group of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.   Common Cause, Cadbury at Lewes, The Future of Life Foundation and the Cape Henlopen Educational Foundation.

• Current activities are: Volunteer & State Co-Coordinator, “Alternatives to Violence Project”, SCI Georgetown; Board member Wilmington Friends School and Latino Restorative Justice Project, 

Professional recognitions

            • 2016, State of Delaware, General Assembly Tribute for leadership in creating the Cape Henlopen    Educational Foundation.

            • 2008, Recipient of the “Peacemaker Among Us” award from Pacem in Terris for life-long work in various humanitarian endeavors

• 2008-2009, Recipient, "Copeland Fellowship", full-year sabbatical to write about international experiences, facilitate AVP workshops and design a distance-learning Peace and Conflict Studies course.

• 2003, Award from the Delaware Social Science Teachers Association for “Outstanding Contributions to Teaching in the Social Sciences”

• 2002, Presenter at United Nations CATUN conference on “Empowering Adolescents Towards Social Change”.

• 1998, Recipient, "Copeland Fellowship", six month sabbatical for the study of reconciliation and conflict resolution in Bosnia, 1998-99

            • 1995-96, Recipient, DuPont Mini-Grant Award for program development: " Poverty in Delaware:   Realities and Responses"                                             

• 1990-91, State of Delaware, General Assembly Tribute for selection as the " Teacher -Scholar for the State of  Delaware", awarded full year independent study stipend for study of Central American Migration patterns, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities.