GPS event to help students reduce stress and increase academic performance
On Tuesday, Dec. 10, the GPS Parent Series: Navigating Healthy Families will present “A Skills Blueprint for Better Grades and Less Stress” with author Ana Homayoun at noon and 7 p.m. via Zoom. Go to gpsparentseries.org for information and the links to these webinars.
Homayoun will reveal new strategies to help students develop their own blueprint for success. She will detail how participants can boost executive functioning skills and remain adaptable in the face of challenges. Her layered, research-based template focuses on proficiencies to help young people visualize, embrace and meet their goals and decrease anxiety in the process.
Homayoun is an academic adviser and early career development expert. She is a noted author and speaker and the founder of Green Ivy Educational Consulting, a Silicon Valley-based educational consulting firm.
Her latest book, “Erasing the Finish Line,” has sparked important conversations nationwide. Homayoun is also the author of “Social Media Wellness: Helping Tweens and Teens Thrive in an Unbalanced Digital World,” “That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week: Helping Disorganized and Distracted Boys Succeed in School and Life,” and “The Myth of the Perfect Girl: Helping Our Daughters Find Authentic Success and Happiness in School and Life.”
Continuing professional development units are available for this program.
GPS is generously sponsored by the Emmy Gaffey Foundation, Cebrin Goodman Center, Prevention Leadership Team of the DuPage County Health Department, Duly Health and Care, Glenbard Early Childhood Collaborative, Cooperative Association for Special Education (CASE), College of DuPage, KidsMatter, Endeavor Health, Community Consolidated School District 93 Birth to 5 Coalition, DuPage Regional Office of Education, and Webb-Hutter Family Fund of DuPage Foundation.
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To be placed on a reminder list for GPS events or submit a question in advance, contact Gilda Ross, student and community projects coordinator, at gilda_ross@glenbard.org or (630) 942-7668.