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Equity and Justice Bulletin — Vol.9
What We Are Celebrating: In this video, FXW alum and DePaul College Prep Student Body President Luke McMiller, a junior, is highlighted reading scripture at DePaul College Prep’s Blessing & Dedication just over a month ago where FXW parent Mayor Lori Lightfoot was present as well for the celebration. Luke is a former FXW Student…
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With Mission in Mind—October 26, 2020
Building a Community of Belonging Before you read any further, I invite you to carve out 16 minutes in your day to watch the short feature film above. It is worth every second and, dare I say, is a bit of a prerequisite for this message to fully resonate. In this film, one hears powerful…
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Equity and Justice Bulletin—Vol.8
Above: Grade 5 students designed this mural in honor of Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month. They also researched each historical person featured. What We Are Celebrating: Princeton to Name Residential College After Black Alumna Pope Francis to parents of L.G.B.T. children: “God loves your children as they are.” What We Are Listening to and Watching: How Can…
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With Mission in Mind—October 19, 2020
Pushing Beyond our Borders Using our city as a classroom beginning in Preschool, and by Grade 4 and beyond, our state and country as well, FXW offers a series of experiential learning opportunities that are designed to develop our students’ leadership potential both inside and outside of the classroom. Some of these experiences, such as…
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With Mission in Mind—October 5, 2020
Our Blended Family In contrast or perhaps even similar to last week’s With Mission in Mind reflection about one family’s experience of being Remote by Choice, this week, just one full month into school, I have a lens on blended learning. At its core, blended learning is the combination of in-person instruction and online learning.…
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With Mission in Mind—September 28, 2020
Remote by Choice. But Chosen For this week’s With Mission in Mind, I invited FXW parent Marsha McVicker (Max, Grade 7) to reflect on the start of the school year as a Remote by Choice family. “Frustration. Anger. Friendship. Gratitude. Those are the overwhelming feelings that both Max and I have as we embark upon…
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Equity and Justice Community Bulletin—Vol.7
In keeping with our mission, it is our hope that the Equity and Justice Community Bulletin will serve as a resource for our strong home-school partnership as we all navigate the world around us. As such, we want to support the adults in our community by modeling how to be an upstander via the types…
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With Mission in Mind—September 20, 2020
In with the New Our School is a model of educational excellence and core values in a society in search of both. We are a community that cares deeply about its students within a structure of understood expectations. We pride ourselves on attracting and retaining a talented and innovative faculty, capable of developing citizens who…
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Equity and Justice Bulletin—Vol.6
Equity and Justice Community Bulletin—Vol.6 As a school with a social justice mission, FXW is committed to Do More with respect to improving the overall quality of community life, educational experience, and circumstances for our Community of Color here and beyond our four walls. Over the summer months, the Equity and Justice Community Bulletin (EJCB)…
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With Mission in Mind—September 14, 2020
A Sacred Moment Selah is a Hebrew word that is often found at the end of verses in the book of Psalms and has been interpreted as to pause, to break, to rest. In Arabic, Selah means connection. During our Faculty and Staff Mission Day prayer service on Wednesday, August 26, which was live-streamed from…
