Capitol Hill Campus - High School

Posted on Thursday, September 02, 2010

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Saturday, September 11, 9:00am-11:30am

Chavez Prep families are invited to join us for an exciting Literacy Event on Saturday, September 11, with Author Priscilla Cummings! Our 6th grade scholars are reading her novel, Red Kayak, this fall. Ms. Cummings will be joining us here at Chavez Prep to talk about being an author and to read aloud from Red Kayak. She will also be available to sign copies of Red Kayak, which will be available for purchase at the event. We hope scholars and their families from all grades at Chavez Prep will take advantage of this rare opportunity to meet and talk with a published author!

A Synopsis of Red Kayak, by Priscilla Cummings
First hailed as a hero for his dramatic water rescue of a little boy, thirteen-year-old Brady Parks soon makes a discovery that puts him at the heart of an enormous tragedy. Alone with his dark secret, Brady is ultimately forced to choose between loyalty to his lifelong friends and doing what he knows in his heart is right. Priscilla Cummings weaves a suspenseful, multilayered tale of three teenage boys caught in a wicked web of their own making.

From http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Red-Kayak/Priscilla-Cummings/e/9780142405734

Posted on Friday, July 09, 2010

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Each summer Art Teacher Jennifer Sonkin and other staff take Chavez Students to New Orleans for public policy service projects. It is a very rewarding and enlightening experience for the students and staff. Throughout the year, students raise money to travel to New Orleans.

If you are interested in supporting our students and learning more, please view the photo gallery and watch the student videos on their website at www.neworleansandback.com or click here.

Posted on Monday, June 21, 2010

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The Washington DC Examiner featured an editorial on safety while riding the metro, written by Capitol Hill Junior, Brittnie Smith. The editorial was featured on the Examiner.com website on June 15th. Smith submitted her editorial to Latraniecesa Johnson-Wilson, who writes columns on DC Women’s Issues for the Examiner. She praised Smith for emailing her about publishing her editorial, saying, “I was overcome with emotion to hear from such a well spoken young lady who took the time and effort to write me.”

Please click here or copy the link below and paste it into the address bar of your browser to read Brittnie’s work.

http://www.examiner.com/x-38287-DC-Womens-Issues-Examiner%7Ey2010m6d15-The-Fear-of-Metro-By-Brittnie-Smith

Posted on Monday, June 14, 2010

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After a three-year search for a location, Tiger Woods’s charitable foundation will announce Tuesday that it plans to open campuses for the Tiger Woods Learning Center this fall at a pair of District charter schools, following through on a pledge to make Washington the East Coast base for Woods’s philanthropic efforts.

The campuses will be located at two branches of the Cesar Chavez Public Charter Schools for Public Policy, one at the Capitol Hill Campus in Ward 6, the other just off the Anacostia Freeway at the Parkside Campus in Ward 7 in Northeast, and are due to have construction completed in mid-August, with openings in October.

“I’m excited we are moving forward on this initiative in the Washington, D.C. community,” Woods said in a statement released through his Tiger Woods Foundation. “The two campuses will bring the best of our curriculum to some very deserving kids. A lot of people have helped to make this happen, and I’m very grateful for their support.”

Woods has one learning center open in Anaheim, Calif., where underprivileged children in grade 5 through high school concentrate not on golf, but take classes ranging from forensic science to graphic design. Officials from Woods’s foundation intended to open a similar center in Washington — and still may do so — but struggled to find an appropriate, affordable piece of property to rent, renovate or buy.

“What we’ve decided to do was to commit to the campus model right now,” Greg McLaughlin, CEO of the Tiger Woods Foundation, said by phone. “And then I think we’re going to evaluate from there and see exactly how well it’s working out. But we absolutely have not ruled out doing a bigger facility, by any means.”

Woods’s foundation will hire between five and eight staff members for the two campuses, which will be housed in renovated space within the two schools, and foundation officials said they hope to serve more than 2,000 children over the course of the 2010-11 school year. The curriculum will focus on career exploration in science, technology, engineering, math and communications.

The Chavez schools, opened in 1998, have four campuses in the District that serve more than 1,400 students in grades 6-12. Some programs will be open to other District students, but Chavez students will have the first opportunities.

“We envision it being something that our students will benefit from a great deal,” said Jeff Cooper, the managing director and chief operating officer of the Chavez schools. “It’ll bring great technological resources, and they’ve got a reputation of having a lot of success out in California. We’re really excited about what these programs can bring our students.”

Article excerpt taken from Washington Post Article on June 8, 2010.

Posted on Thursday, June 03, 2010

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Actor and author Louis Gossett, Jr. applauds the achievements of Nina Thompson (from the Capitol Hill Campus) and other D.C. charter school graduates during an event sponsored by the D.C. Association of Chartered Public Schools at George Washington University’s Lisner Auditorium in Northwest, Fri., May 21.

The audience, comprised of District charter school graduates, not much older than 16 themselves, had their own stories of challenges and achievements that made the evening with Gossett, a night to remember.

“Have a good time; enjoy yourself, but put a plan together for your life,” the 78 year old actor said. “You know to realize why you were put on this planet and what you’re expected to do with it. It may not work out perfectly, but God will help you to do it. Stick with your plan,” he said.

The D.C. Association of Chartered Public Schools hosted the event that also served as a fundraiser and celebration of the achievements of six outstanding charter school college graduates and two Class of 2010 charter school high school graduates. Gossett talked talked about his life and provided words of encouragement to the group, especially those who are pursuing careers.

The winners of the DCACPS 2010 college graduate award was Antwain Coward, a SEED Public Charter School graduate who received a B.S. in Management from Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, Ohio. Nina Thompson, a 2010 graduate of Cesar Chavez Public Charter School received the outstanding high school graduate award. The other finalists included Alvin Brown, of Hospitality High School and a graduate of Michigan State University; Nicosia Young of Cesar Chavez Public and a graduate of the University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y.; Claudia Alvarez, a graduate of Kamit Institute for Magnificent Achievers; I-sha Davis of Friendship Collegiate Academy; and Chantel Washington, Integrated Design and Electronics Academy (IDEA).

(story excerpt taken from the The Washington Informer)