Admissions Team, Beacon Administration, and Beacon Faculty
Beacon Academy Prospective Parent/Guardian Coffee
Join us for a Prospective Parent/Guardian Coffee this fall! Our Parent Coffees are an opportunity to learn more about Beacon Academy from the Admissions Team, Beacon Administration, and Beacon Faculty. Prospective Parent Coffees will end with student-led school tours. Come to learn more about Beacon’s core values and its student-centered approach.
Please 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