By Will Yeiser, FBRA Executive Director & Co-Founder When Boys Program Director Felix Dowsley called me on the evening of Wednesday, September 26th at 10:30 pm and said, “We need to get to the north campus tonight and move equipment…this might be bigger than anyone realizes,” I, along with most of Western North Carolina, had […]
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Fresh school supplies, smiling faces, crispy fresh uniform polos… It must be back to school season! After an amazing Induction Week at Camps Mondamin and Green Cove, French Broad River Academy’s academic program started last Tuesday, September 3. Our students and staff have the advantage of skipping those potentially awkward first day nerves because they’d
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This year’s Salamander Adventure Camp was a blast! Each year, French Broad River Academy offers a completely free summer program to students from Woodfin Elementary School. We designed this day program to get kids outside all day. They enjoy playing in our wonderful mountain playground and learning about our flora, fauna, and geology. Instructors Liddell
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It’s been another active year of community service for French Broad River Academy students and staff. We are grateful to our many service partners around the region. They are doing such important work fighting for the environment, food insecurity, and social justice. Marshall Native Gardens Service Partners Recently in an article in the Citizen Times,
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FBRA’s Class of 2020 Alumni Gather to Reflect on their time at FBRA On, May 21, 2024, we invited the Class of 2020 to come out and reminisce about the good old middle-school days of French Broad River Academy. After hearing these soon-to-graduate-from-high-school young men and women reflect on their time at FBRA, we can
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Woodfin Wave Next Door to FBRA On May 20, 2024, the Asheville Citizen-Times reported that Woodfin’s whitewater wave likely to be completed in 2024 as the only whitewater wave in WNC. French Broad River Academy is uniquely positioned to access the feature, as it will be situated right between our North and South campuses. For
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By Will Yeiser, Executive Director & Co-Founder From the day I started teaching middle school in 2002, I knew I had to create an international travel and immersion experience in a Spanish-speaking country that went beyond the confines of the traditional classroom. Most people wait until high school or college for some type of study
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By Stiles Rader and Sam Iatarola, FBRA Heads of Community Engagement Service learning is an integral part of our mission at French Broad River Academy. We intentionally build opportunities into our weekly field lessons to fulfill our mission of building character and integrity for a lifetime of learning, service, and leadership. We independently clean waterways
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Will Yeiser, Executive Director Service learning has been woven into the curriculum at the French Broad River Academy since day one. We intentionally build opportunities into our weekly field lessons to fulfill our mission of building character and integrity for a lifetime of learning, service, and leadership, especially during the holiday season. Service has and
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