Join us on May 23, 2018, 2-4 PM in Nettie-Louise Coit Garden for the rain date for spring spruce up.

About D-E Garden Project

Help keep our beautiful teaching gardens in shape by participating in three annual work parties and signing up to water the vegetables and take care of the chickens during school holidays. Garden Parents also serve as “critical friends” by listening to students who are planning, planting and building and offering questions and suggestions from an adult perspective.

Volunteers Needed!

In addition to innumerable willing worker bees with any level of experience, the Garden Project needs a work-party coordinator who will reach out to us all, collect RSVPs and organize refreshments.

Join us on May 2, 2018, 2-4 PM in Nettie-Louise Coit Garden for happy spring spruce up:  tidy and mulch paths and beneficial insect habitat borders,  review how to water and sign up for summer watering turns, reinstall chickens and review their care, sign up for summer chicken care turns.

About D-E Garden Project

Help keep our beautiful teaching gardens in shape by participating in three annual work parties and signing up to water the vegetables and take care of the chickens during school holidays. Garden Parents also serve as “critical friends” by listening to students who are planning, planting and building and offering questions and suggestions from an adult perspective.

Volunteers Needed!

In addition to innumerable willing worker bees with any level of experience, the Garden Project needs a work-party coordinator who will reach out to us all, collect RSVPs and organize refreshments.

Support Dwight-englewood School Robotics Team by dining at Chipotle at 10 Nathaniel Place in Englewood On Monday, December 17th between 4 – 8 PM.

The Parents’ Association (PA) Parent Education Committee is offering another “PEP” talk, this time on the topic of “developing our children’s self-reliance and resilience so that they may become the masters of their own destiny.” D-E Lower, Middle, and Upper School parents/ guardians all are invited to join in on Wednesday, Dec. 5 at 8:15 AM in Hulst House (located in Leggett Hall).

D-E Parent Paolo Bettelli will help to facilitate the conversation, which aims to discuss whether over-parenting may be hindering our children’s ability to rise up to challenges, embrace opportunities and develop their own sense of purpose and self.

In advance of this conversation parents are encouraged to check out resources provided by Ms. Bettelli (click here to view).

During this PEP talk, parents/guardians can expect to discuss strategies proposed by well-known authors on raising self-disciplined and resilient children, capable of meeting life’s challenges and of exercising their rights to  “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

CONFIRMED New Date: Friday, November 16

Fête&Fare is the new annual cultural gathering hosted by the D-E Parents’ Association (PA). Each year, a different PA Affinity Group will host Fête&Fare in celebration of a unique holiday around the world to raise cultural awareness and to cherish the diversity in our D-E community.

Click here to download the flyer.

November 5, 2018 – November 16, 2018

• All donations will go to Center for Food Action. Help feed families for Thanksgiving!
• Contribute non-perishable food & toiletries to the bins located in Lower School Lobby; Umpleby Hall Lobby; Leggett Hall; Klein Campus Center. (Middle/Upper School students can bring donations to their HomeBase/Advisory groups.)

Monday, Nov. 12 and Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018
(Two day event!)

Featuring Scholastic Children’s Books, Special Literary Activities, Raffles and More! Read to raise money! Here is an opportunity to let your love of reading pay off. The PA invites you to the annual D-E Book Fair.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! We are looking for Enchanted Forest Book Fair 2018 volunteers. Flexible hours are available for various shifts. Click Here to Volunteer

RAFFLES!  If you are willing to donate an item, please contact Keisha Anikin at keishahayle@gmail.com. If there is any item that you would like to gift to the Book Fair that is not listed, please feel free to do so. We greatly appreciate all of your generosity and school spirit! Please drop by to see the Raffle items that will be outside of the Hajjar Auditorium from 8:30am  – 4:00pm each day. Raffle tickets will be sold for $1 each (cash only) and there are many items that appeal to kids of all ages!

Two Performances:

Friday, November 9, 2018 at 7 PM

Saturday, November 10, 2018 at 7 PM

Join us on November 1, 2018, 2-4 PM in Nettie-Louise Coit Garden to put the garden to bed: tidy and mend the fence, dress the raised beds with compost.

About D-E Garden Project

Help keep our beautiful teaching gardens in shape by participating in three annual work parties and signing up to water the vegetables and take care of the chickens during school holidays. Garden Parents also serve as “critical friends” by listening to students who are planning, planting and building and offering questions and suggestions from an adult perspective.

Volunteers Needed!

In addition to innumerable willing worker bees with any level of experience, the Garden Project needs a work-party coordinator who will reach out to us all, collect RSVPs and organize refreshments.

Click here for more information.

This first discussion in our series of Parents Educating Parents (“PEP”) Talks,  will offer an excellent opportunity to discuss timely topics and trends, moderated by fellow D-E parents/guardians, in an informal, non-judgmental, and relaxing setting.

Here are helpful articles to read in advance of our discussion: 

• https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/well/family/how-to-help-teenagers-embrace-stress.html
• https://yourteenmag.com/family-life/communication/stress-relief-for-teens

Join us on October 4, 2018, 2-4 PM in Nettie-Louise Coit Garden for orientation time — meet the chickens and learn how to look after them, chicken care sign up; plant fall bulbs, mulch and maintain paths.

About D-E Garden Project

Help keep our beautiful teaching gardens in shape by participating in three annual work parties and signing up to water the vegetables and take care of the chickens during school holidays. Garden Parents also serve as “critical friends” by listening to students who are planning, planting and building and offering questions and suggestions from an adult perspective.

Volunteers Needed!

In addition to innumerable willing worker bees with any level of experience, the Garden Project needs a work-party coordinator who will reach out to us all, collect RSVPs and organize refreshments.

Click here for more information.

For more information about Dr. G, visit: www.askdoctorg.com

To view Dr. G’s TEDx Talk on The Expectation Gap, click here

Visit www.projectcicero.org for more info!

Admission, skate rental, and refreshments all provided by the D-E Parents’ Association.

Bring the whole family! Helmets suggested for new (and/or nervous!) skaters!

Check-in at the table just past the main entrance from 4 – 6 PM.

Tickets will be provided for a meal from a prix fixe offering at the concession stand, as the Ice House doesn’t allow outside food and drinks at their facility.

Join the Bulldog spirit!

Cheer for MS Boys Basketball team in their game against Maywood Avenue School.

All proceeds benefit Student Activities at D-E

Details:

• Celebrate the end of your first semester!
• Select from specialty lunch items including:
  Empanadas, sushi, chicken teriyaki bowls, cupcake cones, rice krispie treats, and donuts.
• Cash only: All entrees are $5.00 each; drinks and desserts are $1.00 each. Quantities limited.
• Lunch will still be available from FLIK for students who do not wish to purchase food at the Bulldog FOODraiser
• Coop will close at 11:00 AM and reopen at 4:00 PM that day

Food Provided by:

Empanada Mania, Biddy O’Malley’s, Food for Life, Krispy Kreme, Sarku Japan

Join us for this timely, helpful educational workshop in which Nancy Siegel will introduce attendees to:

• Relaxation, self-regulation and calming techniques for stress relief for you and your children
• Tools to use to move from a state of reactivity and anxiety to a state of balance and engagement
• Dynamic listening tips to create openness, communication and acceptance to not only one another, but to new ideas, new thinking and new inspiration
• Techniques to learn how to make good choices and stay focused

About Nancy Siegel

Nancy is a nationally recognized presenter, trainer and instructor in mindfulness and children’s yoga.  She has more than 25 years of experience practicing yoga, mindfulness and teaching children’s yoga.  She began her career in the early childhood classroom and currently is an Educational Consultant specializing in mindfulness education and children’s yoga teacher training.

Nancy has created and implemented educationally based and yoga inspired programming that has resonated with school leaders, educators, parents and children.  In her work with educators she advocates, nurtures and supports teacher learning, development and growth.

Nancy founded and directed Nesheemah Yoga Center (breath in Hebrew). Outgrowths of the yoga center include CADDY Camp and Nesheemah Kids Yoga Teacher Training (NKYTT).  CADDY Camp, which stands for Circus, Art, Drama, Dance and Yoga, was a creative arts camp that Nancy created and directed for 10 years for 6-11 yr. olds. NKYTT is a 95-hr. Yoga Alliance Accredited Children’s Yoga Teacher Training and is a RCYS (Registered Children’s Yoga School).

Nancy has an M.A. in Educational Leadership, completed Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) training, holds E-RYT-200 as well as RCYT Yoga Alliance accreditations and is a Registered Children’s Yoga Teacher Trainer.