News & Announcements
Chavez Students Travel To Paraguay...
Posted by Mr. Rickenbrode 3 days ago on 10/03/08
tags: capitolhill, homeoffice
Ms. Love and a team of three students that included Brenda Balcarcel, Montel Yancy, and Luz Flores, traveled with the LearnServe Program to Paraguay this summer. The program is sponsored by the Center for International Education and focuses on bringing international policy awareness to schools in the D.C. area and supporting foreign communities in need.
While in Paraguay the team of students lived with local host families and worked as student leaders at a community center in an impoverished neighborhood of the capital city of Asuncion. Their work focused on sustainable education projects in computer science, art, health education, and environmental science. The students will continue to support students and families in Paraguay in the coming school year through fund raising and a health drive to collect personal care items that can be sent to families in need.
Student work published online by Coalition to Stop Gun Violence
Posted by Mr. Rickenbrode 33 days ago on 09/03/08
tags: capitolhill, homeoffice, parkside, prep
Hector Argueta, a student at the Capitol Hill campus, wrote a piece about Cesar Chavez and gun violence during his 2008 Fellowship at the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence.
Read it here
Parent Survey Winners Posted...
Posted by Mr. Rickenbrode 51 days ago on 08/16/08
tags: capitolhill, homeoffice, parkside, prep
Thanks to all of the Chavez families that returned the mail-in surveys sent home last month. We have held the drawing for the Target gift cards—the results are below.
Bruce Preparatory
Survey Numbers 101035, 100756, and 100148.
Capitol Hill
Survey Numbers 100071, 100262, 100868, 100007, and 100262
Parkside
Survey Numbers 100516, 100511, 100413, 100446, 100432, 100618, 100847, 100750, and 100157
Please call (202) 547-3975 by September 5, 2008 to claim your card.
Our new home.
Posted by Mr. Rickenbrode 111 days ago on 06/17/08
tags: homeoffice, prep
Chavez Prep is now located at 3220 16th Street NW, between Lamont Street and Park Road, right across the street from the Sacred Heart church in the heart of Columbia Heights. Our new building was the home of E.W. Stokes Public Charter School for many years. We are excited to be located in such a central location of Northwest DC.
Our contact information remains the same. You can reach us by phone at 202.723.3975 or by FAX at 202.723.3976.
Our teachers are already hard at work planning for the school year, which begins on August 25. We have parent sessions scheduled for Thursday, August 14 and Thursday, August 21 from 5:00-7:00. Please plan on coming to one of these important events and to see our 2008-2009 location.
Graduation 2008!
Posted by Mr. Rickenbrode 123 days ago on 06/05/08
tags: capitolhill, homeoffice, parkside, prep
Capitol Hill
Graduation will be held on June 12, 2008 at 6:00 pm at the Lincoln Theatre. Kasmin Holt, a Chavez Alumna (2004) and Smith College graduate (2008) is the speaker. Graduates should arrive at the theatre between 3:00-3:30 PM for rehearsal. Doors open to the public at 5:00 PM
Parkside
Graduation will be held on June 13, 2008 at 5:30 pm at the Parkside Gymnasium. Graduates should report at 4:45pm.
The guest speaker will be Haki R. Madhubuti (born Don Luther Lee) a renowned African-American author, educator, and poet. He received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Iowa and served in the U.S. Army from 1960 to 1963. A proponent of independent Black institutions, Mr. Madhubuti is the founder, publisher, and chairman of the board of Third World Press (1967), co-founder of the Institute of Positive Education/New Concept School (1969), and co-founder of Betty Shabazz International Charter School (1998) in Chicago, Illinois. He is also a founder and board member of the National Association of Black Book Publishers, a founder and chairman of the board of The International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent, founder and director of the National Black Writers Retreat. Currently, he is the Distinguished University Professor, founder and director emeritus of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing and director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Chicago State University.