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Let us know that you, a parent of a rising 9th grader, would like to
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FAN Idol 2012
is coming on May 10!
Find out about FAN Idol - for those who plan
events for parents, an opportunity to hear a variety of potential
speakers.
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The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less with Barry Schwartz, Ph.D.
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
7:00-9:00 PM
North Shore Country Day School, Diller Street Theater
310 Green Bay Rd., Winnetka, 60093.
Barry Schwartz, Ph.D. is the Dorwin Cartwright
Professor of Social Theory and Social Action at Swarthmore College,
where he has taught since 1971, and where he researches the link between
economics and psychology.
In The Paradox of Choice, Dr. Schwartz offers one more
piece to the puzzle that asks, “What is it about contemporary lifestyles that
results in human dissatisfaction?” He examines the overabundance of choice in
all aspects of American life, from consumerism to education, from work to
interpersonal relationships. Unpacking common notions of freedom, autonomy and
self-determination that equate increased choice with increased well-being and
life satisfaction, he will show us how an abundance of choice is instead making
us discontented, and may be contributing to a near-epidemic of depression –
“more” is indeed “less.”
FAN and the NSCDS Parent Education committee are also thrilled to
announce that Adam Kim, NSCDS Class of 2013, will play a short piano
piece at the start of the Barry Schwartz May 1 evening program. Adam has won
numerous competitions, including First Prize in the Seoul National University of
Education Competition, the Bronze Medal in the Sixth International Chopin
Competition in Asia, and First Prize in the 2008 Midwest Young Artist
Competition. He was winner of the 2009 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Youth
Auditions, and performed with the CSO in 2010.
More about The Paradox of Choice with Barry
Schwartz, Ph.D. ...
Miss Representation
Film Screening
Monday, May 7, 2012
6:30 PM film screening
8:00 PM moderated discussion with the director
Regina Dominican High School auditorium, 701 Locust Rd., Wilmette, IL
Come join us for a free screening of the 2011 award-winning
documentary, Miss Representation. This impressive film portrays the
negative and distorted depictions of women by the media leading to the
under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in our
culture. As young women today are bombarded with mixed messages about their
value by the media, they begin to think that their self-worth is linked to their
physicality, youth, and sexuality – where their intellectual achievements,
leadership potential, character, and authentic sense of self go unrecognized or
are readily dismissed. Pre-register please at
http://bit.ly/FANMay7.
Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the film’s writer, producer, and
director, will participate in a lively and interactive discussion following the
90-minute film with moderator Louise (Lucy) W. Knight, author and
historian, and Visiting Scholar at the Gender Studies Program at Northwestern
University.
More about Miss Representation ...
FAN Idol
Thursday, May 10, 9:30am to 12:30
New Trier High School/West Campus (Room C234, 7 Happ Road, Northfield)
FAN Idol 2012 is just around the corner! For those of you from
PTO/As and other non-profit organizations who coordinate programs for
parents and are looking for quality speakers at a reasonable price, you
won't want to miss FAN Idol 2012. Co-sponsored by the Parent Education
Consortium (PEC), this is our
annual showcase of 8 local speakers who
are highly regarded in their realm of parenting (see
the list) . You'll hear presentations from all of them,
giving you a boost on planning for the 2012-13 school year. Add
another dozen or more resource tables with other parenting experts and
you've got a very productive networking morning!
This is a free, invitation-only event. It is open only to those
who coordinate parent education programs for non-profits.
***Last
chance to be placed on the invite list! Please send your name,
organization and email address to Kitty Curran (
kittycurran@comcast.net)
ASAP. Electronic invitations went out in early April. And feel free to
forward this info to other parent ed programmers who may be interested.
For further information and to see who the
speakers will be, follow
this link. If you are
interested in attending, contact Kitty Curran,
FAN Idol coordinator, at
kittycurran@comcast.net.
Are You the Parent of
a Rising 9th Grader?
Join a Parent Network Group with folks like
you in the fall!
FAN is seeking parents and guardians of rising 9th
graders, the Class of 2016, from any school within New Trier Township
(public, private or parochial) to participate in
FAN Parent Network Groups
for Parents of Rising 9th Graders. FAN’s is starting this initiative for Township-wide
discussion groups that will commence in the
Fall of 2012, in conjunction with our 30th anniversary. Interested?
Let us know you'd like to participate in the fall.
Interested? Let us know you'd
like to participate in the fall.
Did you miss a program?
Protecting Student Athletes:
Concussions, ACL Tears, Overuse Injuries and More
Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 7:00-9:00 PM, Central School, Misner
Auditorium, 620 Greenwood Ave., Glencoe, 60022 (or enter on Grove St.)
Come hear a panel of sports medicine and conditioning experts
discuss these injuries and their treatment and prevention. Julian E. Bailes,
MD, is the new Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at
NorthShore University HealthSystem. Mark K. Bowen, MD is a highly
regarded board-certified orthopaedic surgeon at NOI NorthShore Orthopaedics,
concentrating on sports-related and traumatic injuries to the knee and shoulder.
Dr. Bowen is a Team Physician for the Chicago Bears. Mark Crabtree, MS, ATS,
CSCS is the Director of Sports Performance at the Bulls/Sox
Academy,
Sponsored by the Family Awareness Network of New Trier
Township Schools (FAN), Glencoe D35, and NorthShore University HealthSystem.
More about Protecting Student Athletes ....
Louder
Than A Bomb
Monday, April 9, 2012,
7:00-9:00 PM
New Trier High School, Winnetka Campus, Gaffney Auditorium, 385 Winnetka Ave.,
Winnetka, 60093
Come join us for a free screening of the prize-winning documentary "Louder Than
a Bomb," which chronicles the hopeful, heartbreaking, unforgettable journey of
four Chicago-area high school poetry slam teams as they prepare for the annual
competition that draws more than 600 teenagers from over 60 Chicago area
schools. Produced and directed by local filmmakers Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel,
this joyous, passionate film will move and enlighten you. Bring your teen, and
her friends.
"Louder than a
Bomb is an exhilarating film, presenting a great range of talents. There
are poems and performances here that are funny, others moving, and the
whole of the film is brimming with vitality." W.S. Merwin, U.S. Poet
Laureate
Special guests who will conduct a follow-up program and performance immediately
after the movie screening are being confirmed
More about Louder than a Bomb ...
The Mystery of the Child: A
Celebration of Wonder with Martin Marty
Monday, March 12, 2012
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.
Video of Martin Marty's
presentation
More information about Martin Marty's program:
The Mystery of the Child
Kids Do Well If They Can: Collaborative Problem
Solving for Parents and Professionals with Ross W. Greene
Thursday, March 1, 2012,
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.
More information about Ross Greene's program: Kids
Do Well If They Can
Rather than a recording of this talk, we recommend you consult the archive of
Ross Greene's podcasts
for parents and
for
educators His podcast are also available through iTunes.
Educating the Whole Student: Integrating
Academic, Social and Emotional Learning with Roger Weissberg
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
In 1994, Roger Weissberg, Ph.D., along with others, co-founded the Collaborative for
Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) at the
Yale Child Study Center. 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.
More information about Roger Weissberg's program
Educating The Whole Student.
Podcast of Roger
Weissberg's "Educating The Whole Student" talk. (1:27:00, mp3 file, it
may stream for you, or in Windows right-click on the link and select "Save As"
to download the file)
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.
More about the Jean
Kilbourne event...
Here's a list of our programs
from 2010-2011 with links to
more information
Email updates from FAN
FAN has a email list which receives monthly reminders on our
schedule and pointers to web resources of interest.
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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):
- whoops, it's the end
of the year - nothing to note
check the PEC calendar at
www.peccalendar.org to see recent additions and the complete
list.
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.
