Youth Guidance’s 22nd Annual Parent Leadership Conference entitled: Parenting with Knowledge, Action and Transformation will bring together more than 200 Chicago mothers, fathers, educators, and youth experts for empowerment and enlightenment.
“It’s Always Something” Teen Essay Contest, open to high school students willing to share their experiences with cancer. Gilda’s Club Chicago is looking for honest, detailed and personal essays by high school students (9th-12th grade) who woudl like to share their stories about being impacted by caner. Entry deadline, March 2nd.
Calling all Westcott Elementary Parents!!! Join us, for the next information meeting to learn about the CVS/pharmacy, job program, Thursday, January 15th from 9:00-10:00am or 4:00-5:00pm, at Westcott Elementary, 409 W. 80th Street, in our new Parent Room #102. See you there!
Dr. King’s Unfinished Agenda – Completing the Dream, celebrate at the 25th annual PUSH Excel Scholarship breakfast. To purchase tickets, visit www.pushexcel.org
Movie SELMA now playing, SELMA, an Outstanding drama about MLK’s fight for civil rights. Age appropriate, 13 years, rated 5-stars by CommonSense Media.
School-bassed nonprofit Youth Guidance brings support to students & families in many of Chicago’s toughest neighborhoods.
Westcott Students Give Openlands Approval For Playground Design!
Congratulations to Simeon Career Academy on its Chicago Public League footaball team win. ” Simeon Career Academy and Wendell Phillips Academy became the seventh and eighth Chicago Public League football teams, respectively, to the reach IHSA state semifinals after both schools won their quarterfinal matchups Saturday.”
It’s not all about the test scores, stupid. That sums up a new University of Chicago study, a groundbreaking analysis of middle-school student performance that lays out which measures best predict success in high school and college.
Internet access at home and in the community is crucial for Chicago students. Comcast has been helping families gain access to the Internet at home and elsewhere in their communities via Internet Essentials.
