In this issue:
GPS to present strategies for raising considerate, compassionate kids
The GPS Parent Series: Navigating Healthy Families will present How to Raise Teens You Want to Spend Time With: Science-based Strategies for Responsible, Respectful Kids with author Melinda Wenner Moyer. This program will be presented at noon and 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29, via Zoom. Go to the GPS Parent Series website for information and the links to these webinars.
Please share information about these events with friends and relatives.
To be placed on a reminder list for GPS events or submit a question in advance, contact Gilda Ross, Glenbard District 87 student and community projects coordinator, at [email protected] or 630-942-7668.
How can adults prevent kids from being bratty, entitled or spoiled, especially when messages on social media sometimes display selfish, obnoxious or cruel behaviors? Young people have the capacity for great empathy and understanding. How can we nurture our children to be considerate, respectful and ethical both inside and outside the home?
Discover a template that provides a fresh, surprising and humorous perspective on parenting issues. Moyer will provide scientifically based strategies to help families instill the characteristics of honesty, generosity, and compassion, and raise children who make the world a better place.
Moyer is a distinguished and award-winning editor at Scientific American magazine. She is a former columnist at The New York Times. Her first book, “How to Raise Kids,” earned a gold medal in the 2022 Living Now Book Awards. Moyer also writes a popular science-based parenting advice newsletter.
GPS is generously sponsored by the Emmy Gaffey Foundation, Cebrin Goodman Center, Prevention Leadership Team of the DuPage County Health Department, Duly Health and Care, Glenbard Early Childhood Collaborative, Cooperative Association for Special Education (CASE), College of DuPage, KidsMatter, Endeavor Health, Community Consolidated School District 93 Birth to 5 Coalition, DuPage Regional Office of Education, and Webb-Hutter Family Fund of DuPage Foundation.
Multilingual Student Leadership Summit set for Nov. 8
Our district and building English Learner Leadership Team will host their first Power in Our Roots: Pride in Our Future Multilingual Student Leadership Summit on Friday, Nov. 8, at Glenbard South.
With more than 150 English learner student participants districtwide, this event will empower multilingual youth to embrace their identity and reach their highest aspirations. This celebration of diversity and multilingualism will focus on topics that impact them and will provide students with inspiration and strategies for self-advocacy and making connections.
For further information, contact Assistant Director for Student Services, English Learners and Equity Susanna Melón at [email protected].
Congratulations to National Merit semifinalists
Congratulations to the following students who have been named semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship competition: Glenbard North student Madalyn Cook and Glenbard West students Megan Antonacci, Morgan Baedke, Syeda Zahra Baqhari, Emily Overtoom and Allison Penley. Semifinalists must advance to finalist standing in the competition by meeting high academic standards, receiving a recommendation from their principal and earning SAT scores that confirm the earlier qualifying test performance.
Takeaway from GPS programs on anxiety
Recently, the GPS Parent Series welcomed clinical psychologist Ali Mattu in two programs titled Anxiety: A Psychologist’s Journey.
Visit Mattu’s speaker page under Past Programs on the GPS website to view a recording of the program.
College of DuPage Associate Professor of Psychology Azure Thill hosted the event and shared this takeaway.
“Dr. Mattu believes anxiety robs individuals of the present moment. Though it presents differently for everyone, he encouraged his audience to “get good at anxiety.” What doesn’t work is avoidance. What can work is focusing on the present moment to get out of one’s internal universe and into the present. He shared various coping skills, which may need to be adjusted for each situation. Try concentrating on what your senses reveal, not what your mind imagines. New experiences can overshadow anxiety, and journaling and deep breathing can also assist. Finally, anxiety can be thought of as an attention problem. Focusing on the present moment can make a world of difference.”
Congratulations to girls tennis state qualifiers
Congratulations to West students Audrey Creswell and Kendall Mehta on qualifying for the IHSA girls tennis state final tournament. Kevin Graham is the Head Coach.
CDC recommends core prevention strategies re: respiratory illness
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends five core prevention strategies to help protect oneself from severe respiratory illnesses.
These strategies include:
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