"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. Education is a precondition to survival in America today." ~ Marian Wright Edelman

Welcome back Village! Congratulations on the first weeks of school. We have heard some incredible feedback and look forward to elevating those stories in our newest community conversation series around the strengthening in our feeder pattern - Building together, anchored in hope!

These conversations will focus on our school's incredible connection and how to strengthen that connection over the next year - ensuring our feeder pattern. Each meeting has a theme that will allow us, as the Village, to continue to close that empathy gap. More specifically, it creates language and increases resources in closing the digital divide in our traditional schools. Please take a moment to add these dates/times/locations to your calendars. Our first conversation is scheduled for Wednesday, September 28, from 6pm-7:30pm at the Woodridge Neighborhood Library where we will discuss the technology needs in our neighborhood schools and community spaces.

Subsequent dates, times, and locations are as follows:

November, (date) at 6pm-7:30pm

• Location: TBD

• Focus: Digital Needs - Literacy

January, (date) at 6pm-7:30pm

• Location: TBD

• Focus: Digital Needs - The Home

March, (date) at 6pm-7:30pm

• Location: TBD

• Focus: Digital Needs - The Future

As a community it is our goal, dare we say our responsibility to impact the thoughts, the ideas, the culture and the ways we can move them forward in support of our most incredible - our students/scholars.