New Year’s marks a time for self-reflection and setting goals to strive for a better you. Most people take the opportunity to create resolutions and vision boards based on fitness, academic goals, or self-care but very few actually follow through with their plans, lasting only three to four months...

Mrs. Patricia Denney, Job Coach and Coordinator at Glenbard West is retiring after a 16 year term, beginning in 2006. Mrs. Denney began her career at West as English Learner (EL) Community Liaison. “At that time [West] had a large population of refugee students from all over the world”, she recalled....

Chicago Public Schools, or CPS for short, includes a whopping 340,658 students and 636 schools, making it one of the largest school conglomerates in the United States. Recently, the grouping of schools found themselves in national controversy, as they prepared to reopen after Winter Break amidst a COVID-19...

Since March of 2020, when COVID-19 hit, the economy has taken a huge tumble. A surge of labor shortages is just one of the problems. Even with vaccinations rising, people still see an immense labor shortage. Economists debated on what could be the cause. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor, during...

As a student at Glenbard West, you were most likely required by your freshman year English teacher to visit The Write Place. There, you worked with helpful upperclassmen on your very first high school essay. Though some teachers require their students to visit The Write Place, feel free to stop by and...