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Event Details:

• Date & Time: Thursday, October 8, 2026, at 12:00 PM and 7:00 PM CST.

• Format: Virtual Event (accessible live via Zoom at both times).

• Admission: Free and open to the public; no registration required.

Event Details:

• Date & Time: Wednesday, October 7, 2026, at 12:00 PM and 7:00 PM CST.

• Format: Virtual Event (accessible live via Zoom at both times).

• Admission: Free and open to the public; no registration required.

vent Details:

• Date & Time: Thursday, October 1, 2026, at 12:00 PM and 7:00 PM CST.

• Virtual Option: Available live via Zoom at both 12:00 PM and 7:00 PM.

• In-Person Option: 12:00 PM presentation only, located in Room 2001 of the Culinary and Hospitality Center at the College of DuPage (COD) in Glen Ellyn, IL.

• Admission: Free and open to the public; no registration required.

Event Details:

• Date & Time: Wednesday, September 30, 2026, at 12:00 PM and 7:00 PM CST.

• Virtual Option: Available live via Zoom at both times.

• In-Person Locations:

  • 12:00 PM: College of DuPage (Culinary and Hospitality Center, Room 1020/Auditorium) in Glen Ellyn, IL.

  • 7:00 PM: Glenbard West High School in Glen Ellyn, IL (preceded by a Community Wellness Resource Fair at 6:00 PM).

• Admission: Free and open to the public; no registration required.

• Extras: Free book giveaways and author book signings will take place at both in-person sessions.

The D70 Board of Education will meet in a regular monthly meeting at 6:00 p.m. on September 28, at the Educational Resource Center (ERC), 1381 Lake St., Libertyville. The public is welcome. 

The agenda and the live-stream link for the meeting will be posted under the Board section of the website in Board Packets on the Friday before the meeting. 

What if the true key to success isn’t just who you are or what you do, but where you put yourself? 

Duckworth, spent years proving that grit is the hidden engine behind extraordinary achievement. She maintains that grit is a vital part of success, but it’s not the only part—we’re powerfully influenced by the people, places, and circumstances around us. 

Duckworth will come to GPS with her breakthrough finding that changing your situation can help your grit take you further and bring success within reach. She will reveal how shaping your environment is often more powerful than shaping yourself. 

Duckworth will detail four essential strategies that anyone can use to bring out their best and explain how high performers create situations that make the most of their grit. Participants will learn a practical, paradigm-shifting framework to achieve more at school, work, home, or in life.

Duckworth is a groundbreaking research psychologist and the author of the number one New York Times bestseller “Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance” and “Situated: Find the People and Places That Bring Out Your Best.” Her TED Talk has more than 29 million views. She is the co-founder of Character Lab, a nonprofit whose mission is to advance scientific insights that help children thrive. Duckworth is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and the faculty co-director of the Penn-Wharton Behavior Change for Good initiative and Wharton People Analytics. 

The transition from childhood to adulthood has never been more complex, and today’s teens are facing adulthood’s uncertainties much earlier than previous generations. Many parents are wondering how to navigate the emotional storms, social pressures, and digital saturation facing today’s youth.

To help families move past anxiety and build resilience, GPS will host Richtel in an essential presentation based on cutting-edge neurobiological research detailing the process that occurs inside of the maturing brain.

Participants will discover why teenage brains are biologically rewired to prioritize peer connections over parents and why puberty (hitting our kids ever earlier!) creates a perfect storm of neurological overload.

Richtel will explain how to decode irrational teenage outbursts and how to help adolescents use physical coping mechanisms. He will empower adults with a “Love, Lead, and Let Go” blueprint – and detail the need for parents to separate their own identity from their teen’s successes or failures.

Richtel is a Pulitzer Prize winning science-journalist, father of two teenagers, and the author of the bestseller “How We Grow Up: Understanding Adolescence.”