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The screening of Louder Than A Bomb has been
rescheduled for Monday, April 9, at 7 pm in Gaffney Auditorium on New
Trier High School's Winnetka campus.
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FAN Idol 2012
is coming in May!
We are looking for potential speakers! Our search is
on for professionals who can give presentations on parent-related
issues. Respond by March 15.
More information for potential speakers.
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Educating the Whole Student: Integrating
Academic, Social and Emotional Learning with Roger Weissberg
Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 7:00 PM
New Trier High School, Winnetka Campus, Gaffney Auditorium, 385 Winnetka
Ave., Winnetka, 60093
It’s
clear that social and emotional competence is essential to authentic success in
adulthood. A confident, hopeful individual, versed in self-management
strategies, resourceful, resilient, empathetic, ethical, respectful – isn’t this
the outcome so many of us desire for our children? In what ways can social and
emotional learning (SEL) be taught in schools, and what sort of academic
benefits derive from SEL skills?
In 1994, Roger Weissberg, Ph.D., along with others, including Daniel Goleman,
Eileen Rockefeller Growald, and Tim Shriver, co-founded the Collaborative for
Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) at the
Yale Child Study Center.
Now headquartered in Chicago, CASEL is the preeminent international organization
committed to making evidence-based social, emotional, and academic learning an
essential part of preschool through high school education. For the past three
decades, Dr. Weissberg has trained scholars and practitioners about innovative
ways to design, implement, and evaluate family, school, and community
interventions.
For this program, Dr. Weissberg, a long-time resident of Wilmette, will reflect
on his own family's experiences within New Trier Township schools, and his time
spent in his children's classrooms. He will also broaden his scope and provide
an overview of social and emotional learning (SEL), which was mandated in
Illinois public schools with the passage of the Illinois Children's Mental
Health Act of 2003. Dr. Weissberg will describe the benefits of a preK-12 SEL
program, providing research about the links between academic success and SEL.
He'll also describe CASEL's current ventures and future direction, particularly
its national Collaborating Districts Initiative, supported in part by a new
multi-million dollar grant from the NoVo Foundation.
After Dr. Weissberg's presentation, he will be joined at a panel that will
include Catherine Wang, Glencoe D35 Director of Curriculum; Ryan Mollet, Central
School (Glencoe) Principal; and Tim Hayes, Assistant Superintendent for Student
Services at NTHS. Glencoe D35 has been utilizing CASEL-based SEL initiatives in
its schools for the past two years; Ms. Wang and Mr. Mollet will discuss
how D35
implements SEL programs within the district's school communities, and how
parents can help develop their child’s fundamental skills for life
effectiveness. Mr. Hayes will offer information and insights about NTHS' SEL
programs to create safe, caring learning environments.
Sponsored by the Family Awareness Network of New Trier Township Schools (FAN),
New Trier High School’s ECGC Parent Committee, Glencoe D35, and Erika’s
Lighthouse. CPDUs available for education
professionals; no pre-registration required.
If you are an Illinois-licensed social work professional, you can receive CEU
hours for attending FAN programs -
get more information and pre-register
for CEU's only. All programs are free
and open to the public.
More information about Roger Weissberg's program
Educating The Whole Student.
Kids Do Well If They Can: Collaborative Problem
Solving for Parents and Professionals with Ross W. Greene
Thursday, March 1, 2012, 1:00-4:00 pm
AN AFTERNOON PROGRAM
New Trier High School, Northfield Campus, Cornog Auditorium, 7 Happ Road,
Northfield, IL
Afternoon presentation sponsored by FAN and
North Shore Academy (member
school of North Suburban Special Education District,
NSSED).
For Ross W. Greene, Ph.D., Associate Clinical Professor in the
Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, children and
adolescents with social, emotional, and behavioral challenges lag behind their
peers in three very crucial skill areas: flexibility, frustration tolerance, and
problem solving. Can you think of many situations in a young person’s life that
don’t require the exercise of one or more of these three skills? Dr. Greene
described these struggling kids in his highly-acclaimed, life-changing parenting
guide book The Explosive Child, which focuses on why kids exhibit
challenging behaviors, and why traditional behavior management techniques may
not be effective.
Dr. Greene is the originator of Collaborative Problem Solving Approach
(CPS), a method for helping children with social, emotional, and behavioral
challenges.The guiding philosophy of CPS -- Kids do well if they can --
connotes that behaviorally challenging kids are already motivated to do well but
have difficulty in situations demanding flexibility, frustration tolerance, and
problem-solving. This is in stark contrast to the more commonly-held belief that
a child’s misbehavior is the result of his planned, intentional, purposeful
manipulations, or because the child’s parents are passive, permissive,
inconsistent disciplinarians.
Dr. Greene’s workshop will explain the core ingredients of the CPS model.
Parents, educators and clinicians will learn about CPS as a process – it’s not a
quick fix-it. The goal is to solve problems durably, to teach skills, and to
change fundamental aspects of the way caregivers interact with a child (whether
the child is behaviorally challenging or not).
Sponsored by the Family Awareness Network of New Trier Township Schools (FAN)
and North Shore Academy (member school of North Suburban Special Education
District, NSSED).
CPDUs available for education
professionals; no pre-registration required.
If you are an Illinois-licensed social work professional, you can receive CEU
hours for attending FAN programs -
get more information and pre-register
for CEU's only. All programs are free
and open to the public.
More information about Ross Greene's program: Kids
Do Well If They Can
Just announced:
The Mystery of the Child: A
Celebration of Wonder with Martin Marty
Monday, March 12, 2012, 7:00-9:00 pm
Church of the Holy Comforter, 222 Kenilworth Ave., Kenilworth,
IL
Martin E. Marty, Ph.D. is Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service
Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago, where he taught in the
Divinity School for 35 years, and where the Martin Marty Center for the
Advanced Study of Religion is located. A renowned historian, theologian and
interpreter of religion and culture, with over 60 books, 5,000 scholarly
articles, and 75 honorary Ph.D.s to his name, Dr. Marty was in residence at
Emory University for the 2003-2004 academic year to co-direct the “Child in
Law, Religion, and Society” interdisciplinary project, which brought
together two dozen senior faculty to focus on children. Out of that work
came his elegiac, erudite book, The Mystery of the Child, a work that Dr.
Marty refers to as a “dawn” book, one that reflects on future promise.
Please
pre-register for this event. It is free and open to the public.
Seating is limited and your registration will let us make appropriate
arrangements and contact you if changes are necessary. Thank you.
More information about Martin Marty's program:
The Mystery of the Child
Plan ahead:
FAN Idol
Thursday, May 10, 9:30am to noon
New Trier High School/West Campus (Room C234, 7 Happ Road, Northfield)
For those of you from PTO/As and other non-profit
organizations who coordinate programs for parents and are looking for
great guest speakers at a reasonable price, FAN Idol is THE event for
you. This is our annual showcase of 8 local speakers of interest for
you to preview for the 2012-13 school year. Add another 16 resource
tables with professionals from other related organizations and you've
got a very productive networking morning! This is a free event;
however, an invitation is required to attend.
More
information here.
Potential speakers --
FAN is looking for area professionals to address our FAN Idol audience!
If you would like to be considered as a speaker, we are accepting your
information -- background, websites, presentation topics -- from now
through March 15. The eight speakers will be selected and announced
in April. For further directions on how to participate, please
click on
this link.
FAN Idol is a collaboration of Family Awareness
Network (FAN) and the Parent Education Consortium (PEC). Our goal is to
offer a diverse group of professionals who speak on a variety of related
parenting topics and who can offer their presentations to local
non-profit organizations at no more than $500 per engagement.
FAN Event Dates for the rest of
the year.
Save these dates for more great upcoming FAN programs. All are
at 7 pm unless noted.
Get on our mailing list to hear about the speakers
and topics.
- April 17 (added)
- May 1
- May 17 (added)
If you are an Illinois-licensed social work professional, you can receive CEU
hours for attending FAN programs -
get more information and pre-register
for CEU's only.
Did you miss a program?
Authentic Success: Raising Youth to Thrive in a Challenging
World with Ken Ginsburg, MD
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Ken
Ginsburg, M.D. is a pediatrician specializing in Adolescent Medicine at The
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at
the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Dr. Ginsburg’s most recent books
are Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Kids Roots and Wings,
published by The American Academy of Pediatrics, and Letting Go with Love and
Confidence: Raising Responsible, Resilient, Self-Sufficient Teens in the 21st
Century Century. More about the Ken
Ginsburg events..
Podcast of Ken
Ginsburg's "Authentic Success" talk (2:14:00, mp3 file, it may stream
for you, or in Windows right-click on the link and select "Save As" to download
the file)
What Does a High-Quality Education Mean?
with Yong Zhao, Ph.D.
New Trier Winnetka Campus, 385 Winnetka Ave., Winnetka, IL
Yong Zhao, Ph.D. is Presidential Chair and Associate Dean for Global
Education at the University of Oregon, and author of Catching
Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization. Dr.
Zhao spoke last spring to New Trier faculty. He will discuss American education
and the implications of globalization upon it. Co-sponsored with ALL the
public school districts in New Trier Township!
More, including a brief video with Yong Zhao we recommend you watch ...
Podcast of Yong Zhao's
"High-Quality Education" talk (1:42:00, mp3 file, it may stream for
you, or in Windows right-click on the link and select "Save As" to download the
file)
An Evening with Wendy
Mogel
Am Shalom, 840 Vernon
Ave., Glencoe, IL
Wendy Mogel, Ph.D., is an acclaimed
clinical psychologist, parenting expert, and the author of the best-selling
parenting book, The Blessing of a Skinned Knee. Her 2010 book, The
Blessing of a B Minus, shows parents how to navigate the teenage years,
including independence, the pressure to compete, and communication obstacles.
For this presentation, Dr. Mogel will reorient us to take a long-range view
toward allowing our teens to become, accept and embrace their imperfect but
fully human selves. She will identify ways we can guide our teens with
“leadership that is respectful of their developmental phase and their individual
spirit,” helping them to become resilient, self-reliant and appreciative adults. Sponsored by FAN and
Am Shalom. More
about the Wendy Mogel event...
Audio from "An Evening with Wendy Mogel" is
not available.
So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood
The School of Sts, Faith, Hope & Charity, 180 Ridge Ave., Winnetka, IL
For over 40 years, Jean Kilbourne, Ed.D., has been a singular force
exploring how the advertising industry shapes public health issues. Dr. Kilbourne comes to our area to talk about the hot-button issues
outlined in her book co-authored with Diane Levin, Ph.D., So Sexy So
Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect
Their Children.
All children, boys and girls, receive a very powerful and very damaging kind of
sex education from the popular culture. Even very young children are routinely
exposed to portrayals of sexual behavior devoid of emotions, attachment, or
consequences. Media messages about sex and sexuality often exploit women's
bodies and glamorize sexual violence. Girls are encouraged to objectify
themselves and to obsess about their sex appeal and appearance at absurdly young
ages, while boys get the message that they should seek sex but avoid intimacy.
These messages shape their gender identity, sexual attitudes and behavior,
values, and their capacity for love, connection, and healthy relationships well
into adulthood. More about the Jean
Kilbourne event...
Here's a list of our programs
from 2010-2011 with links to
more information
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FAN connects with Perspectives
Charter School, Chicago
FAN has begun to cooperate with
Perspectives Charter
Schools in Chicago to lend some of our strengths in parent
programming to their parents. We look forward to parents from
Perspectives Charter Schools being able to attend some of our
programs this year. If you are interested in supporting this
effort, contact Lonnie or Susan.
Parent Education Consortium
PEC (Parent Education Consortium) prepares a consolidated calendar of programs
in or near New Trier Township of interest to parents. PEC has a website with all these programs and others.
http://www.peccalendar.org The
website is kept up to date with new programs and changes (as best they can). All of these
programs are open to the general public, most without admission fees or
reservations required. Current PEC Calendar (pdf).
Here are selected events (see the PEC calendar (on-line) for complete information on these and other events):
Thursday, February 23, Don’t Be Average,
7:00 PM, Loyola Academy Theatre, 1100
Laramie, Wilmette
Titled “The Dr. Phil for teens” by FOX and “The Teen Dear Abby”
by CNN, teen expert Josh Shipp has earned an international
reputation as a leading authority on getting through to teens. His
goal is to help teens "get it" and help those who care about teens
-- "get through to them." Josh Shipp has been a guest media expert
on countless media outlets including CNN, MTV, FOX, ABC, TLC, and in
print in The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington
Post and OPRAH.com. Josh explains the world of teenagers in a fresh,
hip, intelligent matter that is straightforward and entertaining to
digest. He will be speaking to the junior class in the morning. All
parents of juniors are expected to attend. Sponsored by Loyola
Academy’s Guidance Department’s Health & Wellness Program. All
parents and guests are welcome at each program. No fee is charged.
No reservations required. To find out more please contact Selina
McGuire at 847-920-2512 or smcguire@loy.org
Friday, March 2, Friday Salon: Parents –
Don’t Let Them Leave Home Without
Signatures, 4-5:30 PM, Women’s Exchange,
Winnetka Community House Annex, 620 Lincoln
Ave., Winnetka,
Join Kate Van Dyke, MA, from Coaching, Inc., as she
shares the needs when "having the conversation" with young adults
18+ about health, legal and medical documents. As part of this
SALON, Kate will also review the significance of having a Health
Power of Attorney document for the 18+ in our life. Call
847-441-3406 to RSVP.
Wednesday, March 7, Let’s Talk Sense
About Sex, 7:00 PM, Loyola Academy Theatre,
1100 Laramie, Wilmette
Healthy sexuality is a topic we cannot evade or ignore today.
What is the difference between sex and sexuality? How do you answer
the tricky questions your children pose about sexuality? How do you
overcome the negative influences from our popular culture? Terry
Nelson-Johnson, D.Min. is an energetic and passionate speaker
who uses his gift of humor to help parents deal with this sensitive
subject matter. Dr. Nelson-Johnson will be presenting to the entire
Junior class. All parents of juniors are expected to attend.
Sponsored by Loyola Academy’s Guidance Department’s Health &
Wellness Program. All parents and guests are welcome at each
program. No fee is charged. No reservations required. To find out
more please contact Selina McGuire at 847-920-2512 or smcguire@loy.org
Wednesday, March 21, Teens & the Law:
What Parents Need to Know, 7:30 PM,
Deerfield High School, Room E114, 1959 N.
Waukegan Rd., Deerfield
Presented by a Lake County judge, Chris Stride, Chief of
the Juvenile Division of Lake County State’s Attorneys Office,
Claudia Kasten, defense attorney, Elliott Pinsell, and
the Deerfield Police. You won’t want to miss this informative and
eye-opening program covering such topics as “sexting,” consequences
of fake I.D. use, underage drinking and drug use, parental
liability, etc. Sponsored by the Deerield Parent Network. For more
information, email deerfieldparentnetwork@gmail.com
Volunteers make FAN go!
FAN’s Board invites new participation in a variety
of roles. If you are an interested parent or professional, who would like to
contribute to or learn from a vital organization-- that is committed to
educating and connecting parents -- we invite you to please contact
Lonnie
Stonitsch or
Susan
Rooney. Planning has already begun and we await your contribution. At every school in New Trier Township we have one or more liaisons
- you can help FAN by being a liaison. You can join the FAN board and help in
your area of interest and expertise. Want to know more about how you can help
and the time required, and the benefits? Write or call
Gail Nusekabel.
Parent Networks
Parents are encouraged to form and join new parent networks. Interested? Drop us a note.
A parent network is a small group of
parents, of middle school and beyond, who gather for a discussion, facilitated
by a local professional, about the joys and challenges of raising children in
our communities.
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FAN’s Mission
Statement
Family Awareness Network of New Trier Township (FAN)
makes a positive difference in families' lives by building parents' confidence
and helping them connect with other parents, their children, the schools and
the community through effective educational programs, active parent networks and
other practical parenting resources.