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Beacon Academy Chicago Open House
Join us for Beacon Academy’s annual Fall Open House. We are excited to welcome families in-person! The format for the Open House will be flexible, giving you opportunities talk with Beacon faculty and students in academic areas of your choice as well as additional areas including college counseling, sports, the arts and student life. We are happy to have you join us for the entire time, but you are free to come and go as your schedule permits. When registering on Ravenna, please provide the names of ALL attendees so that we may have an accurate count of the number of people coming into the building. Please feel free to reach out to the Admissions office (admissions@beaconacademyil.org) with any questions. We are happy to help!
Upcoming Events
Change the Wallpaper: Transforming Cultural Patterns to Build More Just Communities
Nilanjana Dasgupta, Ph.D.
Provost Professor of Psychology and the founding Director of the Institute of Diversity Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Jerry Kang
Ralph and Shirley Shapiro Distinguished Professor of Law and Distinguished Professor of Asian American Studies at the UCLA School of Law
ON ZOOM
GRAND ROUNDS: Shift: Managing Your Emotions — So They Don’t Manage You
Ethan Kross, Ph.D.
Professor, Management & Organizations, Ross School of Business, and Director of the Emotion and Self Control Lab, University of Michigan
David Schreiber, MD
Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychiatrist and CEO and Co-Founder, Compass Health Center and Compass Virtual
ON ZOOM
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want
Emily M. Bender, Ph.D.
Professor of linguistics at the University of Washington
Alex Hanna, Ph.D.
Director of research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)
Timnit Gebru, Ph.D.
Founder and executive director of the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)
ON ZOOM
