Author: shankv

Each year, the doors at Warren G. Harding High School open a few weeks early for incoming students.

As part of the district’s Freshman Academy, incoming students have an opportunity to become familiar with the layout of their new school building, meet some of their teachers and other school staff and prepare for the new school year.

They receive their schedules; are assigned their lockers; learn building procedures; discuss their futures; and more.

This year’s Freshman Academy is made up of members of the Class of 2027.  Daily sessions were held this year on Aug. 8-11. Along with building tours, the students and staff discuss the points covered in the Warren City Schools We Are Warren acronym:

• Work Ethic
• Accountability
• Responsibility
• Respect
• Effective Behavior
• No Excuses

Classes don’t stop for Warren City School employees during “Summer Break.”

The district continues to provide the staff with continued learning opportunities and experience.

For example, this summer about 250 Warren City Schools Teachers and Administrators participated in a two-day Positive Behavior Intervention Workshop facilitated by Safe and Civil Schools based in of Portland, Oregon.

The workshop introduced staff to the CHAMPS & Discipline in the Secondary Classroom frameworks that create structure and routines that proactively work to clarify expectations and engage students through relationships and predictability.

The feedback from participants was overwhelmingly positive, with many expressing appreciation for being equipped with the perspective and tools to help them best respond to the changing needs of their students.

Workshop sessions were offered in June and August. Presenters were Robbie Rowan in June and Jeremy Resnick in August 

With the 2023-2024 academic year, school will start 15 minutes earlier than in previous years for ALL Warren City School Students.

New start and departure times, respectively, are:

• Warren G. Harding High School: 7:25 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.
• Lincoln PK-8 School: 8:15 a.m. and 3:15 p.m.
• McGuffey PK-8 School: 8:15 a.m. and 3:15 p.m.
• Jefferson PK-8 School: 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.
• Willard PK-8 School: 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Opening day of school is just around the corner and to better meet the needs of our students we ask that parents/guardians complete all FinalForms by Monday, Aug. 21, 2023. Thank you!

Warren City Schools is gearing up for the district’s annual Back To School Celebration at Courthouse Square in downtown Warren!

This year’s event is set for Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Students, parents, teachers and school administrators will gather together to celebrate the start of another successful school year in Warren City Schools and kick off 2023-2024.

This year’s celebration of Warren City Schools, our students, families and community will include refreshments, games, raffles and entertainment, among other features.

Warren City Schools will hold a JOB FAIR Wednesday, June 21, 2023, at Warren G. Harding High School (Entrance M). Hours are 4 to 6 p.m.

The school district is looking for bus drivers, cafeteria workers and maintenance personnel. Job seekers are encouraged to bring resumes and references, and are welcome to complete employment applications on-site.

District representatives will have laptops available for completing applications online. Paper applications will also be available.

The United Way of Trumbull County presented Warren City Schools with the agency’s Give Award during the May 18, 2023, combined annual meeting and awards luncheon.

The United Way, while celebrating its 100-year milestone, recognized varios individuals, businesses and organizations for their contributions during the event held at the Eastwood Event Centre.

WCS Superintendent/CEO Steve Chiaro accepted the district’s Give Award garnered “In appreciation of the highesty engagement of employee and student campaign” for 2022.

Students in grades K-2 at Jefferson PK-8 School completed a study of poetry throughout the month of April.

The culminating activity was a performance on May 9, 2023, of the poems students wrote for the other students to hear. 

All classes participated and created new poems for all to hear. 

Students and staff, along with parents and community members, gathered outside Warren City Schools’ McGuffey PK-8 School Friday morning (May 12) to give the school’s robotics team the Titonics a big sendoff. The team is heading to New Jersey for a two-day national competition at the Liberty Science Center Invitational.

The nine-member team, with students in grades fourth to eighth, have had a successful season competing against various robotics teams.

Warren Mayor Doug Franklin gave the team some words of encouragement as they prepared to board the bus. Representatives from the city’s safety forces escorted the team off campus and along the first leg of the trip.

McGuffey PK-8 School was filled with activity Wednesday, May 10, 2023, during an afterschool event that brought dozens of families in for an afterschool Celebration of the Arts fest.

The event featured a variety of hands-on activities, including rock painting, beading and other crafting projects. Music spilled from the cafetorium to the hallways. Other activities included games, a photo booth and a picnic dinner for all McGuffey students and families in attendance.

Volunteers from the River Church in Warren dished up some freshly made popcorn.