GPS Parent Series: Everyday Principles to Grow Happy, Healthy and Smart Young Children

To ensure that all families with children ages birth to three have the information and support that toddlers need for life-success Dr. Ronald Ferguson Facility Director of the Achievement Gap initiative at Harvard University helped develop &ldquo The Basics.&rdquo His i......More

To ensure that all families with children ages birth to three have the information and support that toddlers need for life-success Dr. Ronald Ferguson Facility Director of the Achievement Gap initiative at Harvard University helped develop &ldquo The Basics.&rdquo His initiative is designed to tackle achievement gaps beginning at birth because disparities that are well-established by the start of school are hard to overcome.Ferguson will present strategies for the give-and-take serve and return relationships between children and their caregivers and help parents provide just enough support to foster learning and help children accomplish what they cannot yet do on their own. Parents will learn how to maximize love manage stress encourage communication facilitate movement and play and lay the foundation for executive function and self-regulation skills. Join us to learn the tools caregivers need to help children become amazing people.Dr. Ronald Ferguson provides active thought leadership for the Basics Learning Network. He is an MIT-trained economist who served on the faculty at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government focusing social science research on economic social and educational challenges. He is the author of the award-winning bestseller &ldquo Toward Excellence with Equity: An Emerging Vision for Closing the Achievement Gap&rdquo and &ldquo The Formula: Unlocking the Secrets to Raising Highly Successful Children.&rdquo

GPS Parent Series: Everyday Principles to Grow Happy, Healthy and Smart Young Children

To ensure that all families with children ages birth to three have the information and support that toddlers need for life-success Dr. Ronald Ferguson Facility Director of the Achievement Gap initiative at Harvard University helped develop &ldquo The Basics.&rdquo His i......More

To ensure that all families with children ages birth to three have the information and support that toddlers need for life-success Dr. Ronald Ferguson Facility Director of the Achievement Gap initiative at Harvard University helped develop &ldquo The Basics.&rdquo His initiative is designed to tackle achievement gaps beginning at birth because disparities that are well-established by the start of school are hard to overcome.Ferguson will present strategies for the give-and-take serve and return relationships between children and their caregivers and help parents provide just enough support to foster learning and help children accomplish what they cannot yet do on their own. Parents will learn how to maximize love manage stress encourage communication facilitate movement and play and lay the foundation for executive function and self-regulation skills. Join us to learn the tools caregivers need to help children become amazing people.Dr. Ronald Ferguson provides active thought leadership for the Basics Learning Network. He is an MIT-trained economist who served on the faculty at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government focusing social science research on economic social and educational challenges. He is the author of the award-winning bestseller &ldquo Toward Excellence with Equity: An Emerging Vision for Closing the Achievement Gap&rdquo and &ldquo The Formula: Unlocking the Secrets to Raising Highly Successful Children.&rdquo https://gpsparentseries.org/events/ronald-ferguson/

Blood drive at Glen Crest

The community is invited to donate blood at Glen Crest Middle School on Wednesday, August 28. The blood drive will be open from 2 to 6:30 p.m. in the school's cafeteria. For more information or to schedule an appointment, go to: www.ccsd89.org/blood

NO SCHOOL (Memorial Day)

All CCSD 89 schools and the district office will be closed for the Memorial Day holiday.

Music Boosters end-of-year celebration

D89 Music Boosters in-person end-of-year celebrationMore information at www.ccsd89.org/MusicBoostersThe CCSD 89 Music Boosters support elementary and middle-school music classes bands choirs and orchestras. The Boosters have two annual fundraisers - holiday wreaths and ......More

D89 Music Boosters in-person end-of-year celebrationMore information at www.ccsd89.org/MusicBoostersThe CCSD 89 Music Boosters support elementary and middle-school music classes bands choirs and orchestras. The Boosters have two annual fundraisers - holiday wreaths and Music Café - which support the purchase of instruments guest teachers transportation to special performances and more. Volunteers are needed to make these events possible. You can sign up and learn more about the Music Boosters at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe86MT1zo23YMfEsKvXZqAHcsaudvqDfgmKVbNGPPaq2Nwblw/viewform

Last day of school (morning attendance)

If no emergency days are used, the last day of the 2024-25 school year will be a half day (morning attendance) on Friday, May 30. If all five emergency days are used, the last day will be a half-day (morning attendance) on Friday, June 6.Dismissal on the half day will b......More

If no emergency days are used, the last day of the 2024-25 school year will be a half day (morning attendance) on Friday, May 30. If all five emergency days are used, the last day will be a half-day (morning attendance) on Friday, June 6.Dismissal on the half day will be at 11:15 a.m. for Glen Crest Middle School and 11:50 a.m. for elementary schools.

Emergency day* (if necessary)

If no emergency days are used, the last day of the 2024-25 school year will be a half day (morning attendance) on Friday, May 30. If all five emergency days are used, the last day will be a half-day (morning attendance) on Friday, June 6.Dismissal on the half day will b......More

If no emergency days are used, the last day of the 2024-25 school year will be a half day (morning attendance) on Friday, May 30. If all five emergency days are used, the last day will be a half-day (morning attendance) on Friday, June 6.Dismissal on the half day will be at 11:15 a.m. for Glen Crest Middle School and 11:50 a.m. for elementary schools.

Board of Education meeting

The Board will meet in the district office at 22W600 Butterfield Road, Glen Ellyn. All meetings are open to the public. Links to board meeting broadcasts are available at www.ccsd89.org/domain/3870Full agendas and minutes for all board meetings can be found at www.ccsd8......More

The Board will meet in the district office at 22W600 Butterfield Road, Glen Ellyn. All meetings are open to the public. Links to board meeting broadcasts are available at www.ccsd89.org/domain/3870Full agendas and minutes for all board meetings can be found at www.ccsd89.org/board