The Esperanza Academy Charter School Chess Team just had two big weekends in a row, competing at and winning both the Checkmate Violence Marathon Chess Tournament on Jan. 27-28, and the Masterminds Winter Open Chess Tournament on Feb. 3-4 . The Team traveled to Temple University for the Checkmate Violence Tournament. Hosted in partnership with…
Over 100 Esperanza Academy Charter High School students and faculty, along with family and friends from the community, enjoyed an afternoon of short scenes performed by the Esperanza Drama majors on Wednesday, Jan. 24. Dwight Wilkins, the Drama teacher, presided over the 2018 Winter Drama Showing in the auditorium, and shared with the audience that…
Esperanza Academy Charter High School students had the privilege of meeting with two distinguished guests in October, Quiara Hudes and the Honorable Mickey Ibarra. Ms. Hudes, a Philadelphia native, is a playwright and professor at Wesleyan University. She collaborated with Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of Hamilton, to write In the Heights, winner of the 2008…
The 2017 Spring Graduation of Esperanza Academy will have the special participation of Sen. Bob Casey as keynote speaker. Only families with tickets will be allowed to enter the venue.
Tweet this: Join @SenBobCasey as commencement speaker of the @Esperanza_CS #ClassOf2017 at @Penn Irvine Auditorium June 9, 7pm! http://bit.ly/CaseyEAGraduation Philadelphia, PA – June 7, 2017. Sen. Bob Casey Jr of Pennsylvania will join Founder, President and CEO of Esperanza, Rev. Luis Cortés Jr and David Rossi CEO of Esperanza Academy Charter Schools to celebrate the…
NATIONAL: Esperanza Academy Charter High School students will showcase their personal histories in the My Home, My History exhibit at the National Museum of American Jewish History on Tuesday, June 6 at 5:30 P.M. Tweet this: @Esperanza_CS students share their stories at the My Home My History exhibit at @NMAJH!Free reception June 6, 5:30pm.http://bit.ly/myhomemyhistory FOR IMMEDIATE…
Although the season of the TV show, “Dancing with The Stars” has come to an end, at Esperanza we are still celebrating our very own dancing season with performance worth of any televised show. The Esperanza Academy dance majors performed last Saturday, May 20 at the Academy auditorium a wide range of styles from Latin…
Esperanza Academy Middle School students, Berlin and Manuel, announced exciting news via their Instagram account on Thursday. The all time best friends were chosen as one of the finalists of The Gleaner’s 3rd Annual 10-Minute Film Competition. The Gleaner Gala will be held on the Delaware Valley University campus in the Life and Sciences building on April…
Every semester, Esperanza Academy Charter School holds a Parent-Teacher Conference for both the High School and the Middle School as an opportunity for parents to meet the student’s teachers on a one-on-one basis and discuss any positives and negatives of their academic standing. Parents follow their students’ schedule getting to experience what a normal day looks like…
The Esperanza Chess Team battled it out with Masterman beneath an Egyptian Sphinx in the Penn Museum of Archeology in the Philadelphia Scholastic Chess Finals last March 3. Facing a middle school team that had been playing since kindergarten and whose average rating is double ours, Esperanza fought hard on all seven boards. We narrowly missed…
