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A board meeting will take place Tuesday, April 16 at 6:00 p.m. The meeting will be held in the Cafetorium at Willard PK-8 School, 2020 Willard Ave SE, Warren, OH 44484. This meeting is open to the public. All participants must follow social distancing and Covid-19 protocols. Click the link below to view the live stream.

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Public participation (via email in advance) will be considered at wcsboard.participation@warrencityschools.org, questions, comments and concerns must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. the day prior to the meeting.  Submission must include name and address.

Warren City Schools’ Annual Art Show is set for Friday, April 26, 2024, inside the large gym at Warren G. Harding High School. Hours are 5 to 7 p.m., with an awards ceremony at 6 p.m.

Warren City Schools will prepare students for the 2024 solar eclipse with a variety of activities centered around the April 8 historic event.

For starters, all students and staff will receive a complimentary pair of eclipse glasses so they can watch the sky safely as the moon passes between the earth and the sun.

Parts of the Mahoning Valley are in the path of totality, with Trumbull County in the direct line of passage.

The district, in anticipation of the solar eclipse, announced school will be dismissed two hours early on Monday, April 8.

But before they leave for the day, students will have a variety of opportunities to learn as much as possible about the eclipse. Activities will vary based on the students’ grade bands/pods.

HERE ARE SOME HIGHLIGHTS

• Grades 3-8: Students will use ultraviolet beads to discover why we wear eclipse glasses during an eclipse.
• Grade K-2: Students will make models of an eclipse to understand the pattern of the moon, earth, and sun.
• HIGH SCHOOL GRADE LEVELS: Using the PASCO wireless weather sensor and the SPARKvue app, Suzette Jackson, Warren City Schools Assistant Curriculum Director, Grades 6-12, will gather data during the eclipse, including temperature, humidity, illuminance (the amount of light spreading over a given surface), and wind speed. At a later time, high school students will take the qualitative data, such as the darkness and the cooler temperature that they experience during the eclipse, and connect it to the quantitative data the weather sensor will gather.
• ALL GRADE LEVELS: Students will make a pinhole projector that they can take home and use during the eclipse to indirectly see the moon covering the sun.

Prior to April 8, students will receive literature to take home so they can learn more about the eclipse over spring break.

Students in grades K-2 will read the book Total Solar Eclipse: A Stellar Friendship Story.

Grade 3-5 students will read the book Eclipses.

About the Monday, April 8, 2024, Solar Eclipse:

• Eclipse start: 1:59 p.m.
• Totality: 3:13 p.m., with maximum effect at 3:15 p.m.
• Totality ends: 3:17 p.m.
• Eclipse ends: 4:29 p.m.

Here is a link to a live stream of the eclipse. 

Books and dinner were on the menu Tuesday, March 20, 2024, at the Lincoln PK-8 School’s Reading Cafe during parent-teacher conferences.

It was all part of Warren City Schools’ Reading Raider Program.

All guests, along with their children, were invited to enjoy a meal. Families then had the opportunity to read a book together.

More than 200 meals were served and dozens of books were read, and families had some comfortable space where they could read.

The United Way of Trumbull County has partnered with each Warren City Schools PK-8 School – Jefferson, Lincoln, McGuffey and Willard – to provide guest readers.

The special guests visit classrooms and support the school district’s Reading Raider Program. The special guests are visiting one school, one day each week.

Students at the Jefferson PK-8 School learned about different genres during a recent book tasting event.

The family event helped expose students to different kinds of books. Students and their families spent some time at the “Book Cafe” where they “sampled” various books on the “menus” they had in hand.

Parents helped their children retell the story in the books they received for the day through the WCS’ Reading Raider Program.

Before families left, they also got to sample a strawberry banana smoothie and got the simple 3-ingredient recipe to take home. All of this while wearing a chef hat of course! Go Readers!

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

We have previously received inquiries about offering an adult & teen Learn-to-Swim class & have now found a space in our Spring program.

Registration is open now.

Download the Flyers and Registration Forms here:

Third-graders and staff at the McGuffey PK-8 School welcomed the Siberian Husky Club of Greater Cleveland Tuesday, March 12, 2024 as part of the Warren City Schools’ Reading Raider Program.

The students learned about sled dogs and the supplies and tools mushers use when driving sled dogs. The highlight of the visit came when Siberian Husky Flint entered the gymnasium, where the presentation was held. Students had the opportunity to pet Flint and see a sled dog up close.

Additionally, as their book for the day through the Reading Raider program, students received “Balto,” a book about the Alaskan Husky that achieved fame when he led a team of sled dogs driven by Gunnar Kaasen on the final leg of the 1925 serum run to Nome, in which diphtheria antitoxin was transported using sled dogs.

Later, Balto lived the Cleveland Zoo until his death on March 14, 1933, at the age of 14. He body remains on display at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

Read more about WCS’ Reading Raider Program Here.

Nine members of the Warren. G. Harding High School Raiders Football team on Thursday, March 7, 2024, made formal commitments to colleges and universities where they plan to study.

Family, friends, school leaders and community members rallied in support of the student-athletes during a signing day inside the school library.

These students intend to continue their education at the following institutions:

• Nehemiah Alexander: Judson University
• Nysier Coleman – Erie Community College
• Jake Daugherty: Youngstown State University
• Devonte Ellis: Sienna Heights University
• Antonio Smith: Judson University
• Javonte Jones: Erie Community College
• Nau’Jeat Jones: Erie Community College
• Bryan Powell: Erie Community College
• Ryan Powell: Eastgate Prep
• Juan Wade: Erie Community College