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It’s all about “How to be a Good Friend” for the first few months of school at Willard PK-8.

For the first nine weeks of the 2023-2024 school year, Willard PK-8 school is focusing on the SEL (Social-Emotional Learning) theme: Connections with the focus on Friendship. 

Teachers are doing weekly SEL lessons that coincide with the theme and each pod has an assembly for each grade level so students understand the meaning behind it. 

“We want students to understand what it means to be a good friend and also discuss when someone is not being a good friend,” explained PK-2 Pod Principal and Campus Leader Carly Polder.

Student work focused on Friendship is on display throughout the school building.

Students watch videos featuring staff depicting good and bad behavior. They are also given scenarios and, after discussing them among their classmates and teacher, share whether they think it was good behavior or bad behavior.

One highlight includes introducing students to the “Buddy Bench.” Students are encouraged to talk to or play with any classmate sitting on the Buddy Bench alone.

Warren City Schools and the American Red Cross have teamed up to offer swim lesson for children between the ages of 3 and 14. Registration is open now.

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Warren City Schools preschool teachers on Thursday, Aug. 24, welcomed their preschool boys to class. The girls came to school for the first time on Wednesday, Aug. 23.

On Monday, Aug. 28, boys and girls will join each other and everyone will be in class together!

We will be sharing more about our youngest learners as the year progresses. So, please stay tuned.

Warren City Schools preschool teachers on Wednesday, Aug. 23, welcomed their preschool girls to class. It will be the boys’ turn on Thursday, Aug. 24. Then, on Monday, Aug. 28, boys and girls will join each other and everyone will be in class together!

Please stay tuned and we will keep you posted on some activities and exciting events throughout the school year among some of our youngest learners!

Warren City Schools Kindergarten classes got underway on Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023, with students arriving for their first day of the 2023-2024 school year.

It’s an exciting time for students and teachers alike at Warren City Schools!

Once again, Warren City Schools is among those districts benefitting from Berk Enterprises Inc.’s good will.

Berk recently donated school supplies to Warren City Schools. Locally, Girard City Schools also received some of the school supplies.

The school supplies were collected over the past two weeks at Berk Enterprises in Warren and Past Times Arcade in Girard.

This was the second year for the collection, and the two companies collected 17,256 items – nearly six times the 3,000 items they collected last year.

Warren City Schools Superintendent Steve Chiaro, along with district principals, teachers and other staff members joined community members in greeting students at the doors Monday, Aug. 21, 2023 – the opening day of the 2023-2024 school year.

Welcoming students as they arrive at school on the first day has become a tradition for Warren City Schools and the community. The initiative is part of the 100 Men of Warren effort to start students off on a positive note with a greeting and words of encouragement, such as “Have a great year,” and “You’re going to do great.”

Volunteers from Second Baptist Church of Warren and the United Way of Trumbull County joined school staff and community leaders at each of the district’s five school buildings to welcome the students to school.

Warren City Schools welcomed more than a dozen new teachers during a recent New Teacher orientation.

The orientation gave the new staffers and opportunity to become more families with the Warren City Schools family, community and buildings, and to spend some time with their peers.

Grades 5 – 8 science teachers recently participated in professional development on Thursday, August 10.  They took part in an  inquiry activity from the book Argument-driven Inquiry.

Inquiry skills follow a circular process that asks questions, researches answers, interprets information, presents findings, and reflects. The process helps students learn and use higher-order thinking skills like analysis and synthesis.

Christin Brugler, who is a Trauma-Informed Care Specialist with Warren City Schools, recently facilitated workshops with building secretaries, educational assistants and bus drivers.

The workshop gave the participants an understanding of the causes and effects, and how to best respond to trauma in themselves and in others.

Having a better understanding of the biological, mental, and emotional responses of trauma will help build resilience against the effects and better equip these essential district employees to create the conditions for work spaces and interactions that will help get the most out of our students and staff, as well as themselves.