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District 2 has completed its transition to its new PowerSchool student information system.

Now it is offering three in-person tutorials to help families use the PowerSchool Parent Portal. This system provides parents access to their students’ schedules, attendance, assignments and grades. If you need in-person assistance in setting up your account, please attend one of these sessions.

• Tuesday, January 17: Blackhawk Middle School, 2-3 p.m.
• Wednesday, January 18: Tioga School, 9-10 a.m.
• Thursday, January 19: W.A. Johnson School, 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Otherwise, additional online resources and webinars to help parents create and use their accounts are available at www.bsd2.org/powerschool.

Letters providing login information for the PowerSchool Parent Portal were sent home with elementary students and mailed to middle school students' home addresses in early December. If you didn't receive it, please contact your school office.

• Click here to login to the PowerSchool Parent Portal.

To welcome its Class of 2027, Fenton High School will host an Incoming Freshman Parent Night at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, January 12, in the school's auditorium.

Eighth-grade parents - mark your calendars and take advantage of this opportunity to learn more about the transition process. 

The evening's schedule of events is as follows:

• Welcome Message: 6-6:45 p.m.
• Electives Fair: 6:45-7:15 p.m.
• Athletics & Activities Fair: 7:30-8 p.m.



For more information, email koranda@fenton100.org or bray@fenton100.org.  

Robert Hackenson Jr., a youth motivational speaker from Dynamic Influence, will "edutain" parents and students about teen vaping and tobacco use when he visits Blackhawk Middle School next week.

Mr. Hackenson will deliver his highly interactive presentation during a parent education night at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, January 17, in the Blackhawk auditorium. Parents of students at all grade levels are encouraged to attend this presentation.

He will also share it with sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade students during in-school assemblies on January 17 and 18.

Mr. Hackenson's presentations feature "mind magic and illusions," and will focus on the risks and misperceptions around vaping and tobacco use. They touch upon the commonly known dangers, then dive deeper into much less known medical studies and other eye-opening information to provide students with facts they need to make well-educated decisions about the dangers of vaping.

• Click here for the BSD2 Teen Vaping & Tobacco Use Parent Education Night flyer.

Bensenville School District 2 and Fenton High School's Padres Unidos are partnering this year to present a yearlong parent education series facilitated by Chicago-area psychologist Dr. Ferney Ramirez (Spanish) and YWCA clinical therapist Theresa Taylor (English). 

The fourth offering in the series will be held from 6:30-8 p.m. Thursday, January 19, at Fenton High School, located at 1000 W. Green Street in Bensenville.

Titled "Toxic Families: How to Avoid Being One," the presentation will help parents create a climate of dialogue, respect and affection so that their children can grow up emotionally stable.

This presentation will be offered in English and Spanish.

Childcare and food will be provided.

• Click here for a complete schedule of topics for the BSD2-Fenton Parent Education Series.

College of DuPage is offering free English classes at two Bensenville locations.

Starting January 30, classes will be offered at 6:30 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays at Fenton High School.

Also, starting February 28, classes will be offered at 9:15 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays at Bensenville Community Public Library.

COD's English classes will help students learn reading, writing, listening and speaking skills, improve career opportunities, and prepare for college.

Also, starting January 18, College of DuPage is offering a free digital literacy class at 6 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays at the Bensenville Community Public Library.

The digital literacy classes will help students learn to safely navigate the Internet, search online, use email, fill out online forms, and use basic functions within Excel and Word.

Additional details on both programs are listed in the flyers below:

• Click here for College of DuPage's flyer for English classes in Bensenville.
• Click here for College of DuPage's flyer for its digital literacy class at Bensenville Community Public Library.

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District 2 has gone "green" in its approach to distributing community flyers.

Rather than sending flyers home with each student via backpack mail, District and community flyers are posted on the BSD2 E-Flyers page for parents to view or print 24/7.

It is estimated that this saves our schools hundreds of hours per year spent sorting and handling the materials, not to mention the number of trees and other resources saved in producing them.

• Click here for the current list of BSD2 E-Flyers.