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
John Lewis: A Life
David Greenberg, Ph.D.
Professor of history and of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University
David Blight, Ph.D.
Sterling Professor of History and African American Studies and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University
ON ZOOM
The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing
Mary-Frances O’Connor, Ph.D.
Professor of psychology and director of the Grief, Loss and Social Stress (GLASS) Lab, University of Arizona
Meghan Riordan Jarvis, MA, LICSW
Psychotherapist, author, and podcast host
ON ZOOM
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
Robert Sapolsky, Ph.D.
John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor of Biology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery at Stanford University
Oliver Burkeman
New York TImes bestselling author and former columnist for The Guardian
ON ZOOM