My Familytree Storybook

Give it up to the students, teachers, principals, and staff at Walter Payton College Prep, Northside College Prep, Jones College Prep, Whitney Young, and Lane Tech! All are top 100 schools in the latest U.S. News Best High Schools rankings, with Payton placing 5th! Congrats! ! https://bit.ly/2qj30Jd

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Louis Armstrong arrived in Chicago 100 years ago this year. This Women’s History Month we honor one of the great influences in his life, his wife, Lil Hardin Armstrong, an accomplished pianist who helped guide and define Louis’s career.

JazzCity 2022: Women in Jazz History
Bethany Pickens Trio and Alexis Lombre Quartet
March 18th | 6pm
WATCH: jazzinchicago.org/Louis

A virtual broadcast from the beautiful Garfield Park Conservatory showcasing two of Chicago’s most important female jazz artists, Bethany Pickens and Alexis Lombre, each with a direct musical lineage from the incredible Lil Hardin Armstrong.

JazzCity is a free concert series initiated in 1997 by the Jazz Institute in collaboration with the Chicago Park District, now in its 25th season of bringing people together to listen to Chicago’s top jazz musicians.

𝗝𝗢𝗛𝗡 𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗘 (1845?-1905)
John Ware was born a slave in South Carolina circa 1845. When the Civil War ended, he decided to exercise his freedom by moving west. Ware settled in Texas and got a job with a rancher who raised horses. In 1879 Ware rode north on a cattle drive to Montana and remained in the area. Three years later he relocated across the Canadian border to Alberta, and in 1884 he filed on a 160-acre homestead west of Calgary. Ware raised a few cattle and supplemented his income by working as a hired hand for nearby ranchers, specializing in handling horses.

In 1892 Ware married Mildred Lewis, the daughter of one of the few black couples to move from eastern Canada to Alberta during the frontier era. They eventually had six children but, ironically, no grandchildren. In 1900 they sold their ranch and bought another in eastern Alberta near the town of Brooks. The Wares were never economically prominent but they were well known and liked by their mostly Caucasian neighbors.

Mildred Ware died of pneumonia in early 1905 before reaching her thirty-fifth birthday. Her husband, who was about sixty, died a few months later, on September 12, 1905, when the horse he was riding stepped into a hole, threw him, and landed on top of him. Both of their funerals were attended by many of their white friends who respected them as good neighbors on the rugged Canadian frontier. Years later, the citizens of Alberta honored John Ware, who never learned to read or write, by naming a junior high school in Calgary after him.



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Black History Month serves as a time when we as individuals and we as a community can dedicate space for celebrating black excellence, culture, and history, while also listening, learning, reflecting, and acting upon racial inequity and injustice.

Communities In Schools of Chicago celebrates black history – throughout the month of February and beyond. Our school-based team honors Black History Month with students and school staff, and our Partnership Team connects relevant programs directly to schools.

One CIS partner offering programming this month is My Familytree Storybook! Their activity helps students discover the stories of their family, however family is defined to them, and helps them convert that discovery into a priceless family history narrative.

DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL JUNE 25th!!!!

This year we join the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools in celebrating 30 individuals under 30 to honor the 3 decades since the first charter school law ever passed.

Este año nos unimos a la Alianza Nacional de Escuelas Públicas Chárter, para celebrar a 30 personas, menores de 30 años, ha honrar las 3 décadas desde que se aprobó la primera ley de escuelas autónomas.

Future King Kindergarten students..... Come Join us TONIGHT for Kindergarten Open House!

Today kicks off ! This week, we honor all educators who go above and beyond for their students. http://ow.ly/Kt9a50EDiDa

We would love to hear what research you've all got planned for the weekend?

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Don't miss the chance to catch up on the range of insightful and entertaining talks from the Really Useful Family History Show- available until the 17th.

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