Special Service Project benefits the Heifer organization

Special thanks to Mrs. Adkins, 3rd grade teacher, Chuck Ghiloni from the Village of Norridge and representing the Rotary Club of Norridge-Harwood Heights, and Mr. Bender, faculty, students, family, and community!

Through local efforts, chores at home, learning at school, service around town, we raised more than $1,200 at Pennoyer, and the Rotary donated $1,000; more than $2,200 in total!

Please see attached documents describing the learning/service program.

We at Pennoyer are proud to extend our service from our homes, school, and village, all the way to far reaches of the globe!

Thank you!

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5th grade D.A.R.E Program - a Huge success!

The Numbers
  • Millions of children will benefit this year from the DARE program
  • 220 new communities started D.A.R.E. in last three years
  • 75% of USA school districts and 43 countries teach D.A.R.E.
  • 10,000+ communities using D.A.R.E.
  • 75,000+ D.A.R.E. officers trained/certified throughout USA
  • $12 per child from K through 12 for all educational materials
    (as a non-profit D.A.R.E. is the most affordable program available) 

    The Program
  • Curriculum developed by educators, taught by trained officers
  • Focuses on responsibility, resisting peer pressure
  • Implementation is community decision
  • Elementary, middle, high school, after-school, parental components
  • Training mandatory for instructors before they enter the classroom
  • New science-based curricula from top researchers

    —Research and principle based content
    —Authentic activities
    —Active learning principles and “best teaching” practices
    —Complex reasoning and decision-making
    —Officers as facilitators not lecturers

    The Science
  • D.A.R.E. has a Scientific Advisory Board led by Dr. Herb Kleber, Columbia University
  • NIDA issued Research Based Guide identifying standards for prevention programs, publication proposed checklist of research-based prevention principles—D.A.R.E. was only program to satisfy all eight categories .
  • Study recently published in the Journal of the National Medical Association demonstrates that the D.A.R.E. curriculum is highly effective in prevention of smoking. Students that completed the D.A.R.E. program were five times less likely to start smokingcompared to youngsters who did not participate in D.A.R.E.


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