by Savanna Honerkamp-Smith | Oct 26, 2018 | News
“When I think about what the Eskolta community is and what it means for kids and communities… it is life-saving work. It is the difference for young people between a life of opportunity or a life of poverty. It is the difference for our communities between a future of...
by Savanna Honerkamp-Smith | Jun 26, 2018 | News
Every year, when confronted with the state exams, I.S. 126 Albert Shanker School for Visual and Performing Arts in Queens faced the same problem: students would give up before finishing. The problem with persistence and fear of challenge had become so great that...
by Savanna Honerkamp-Smith | Jun 25, 2018 | News
When Gaby, a junior at Flushing International High School, was first assigned to interview her mentor at her internship, she hesitated and asked if she could interview another intern, saying Maria was “too busy and important.” But upon interviewing Maria, Gaby was...
by Eskolta News Team | Feb 8, 2018 | News
“I remember, I got to IDP and they asked me, ‘What do you want to do?’ I was like, ‘Oh, I matter now! I exist! This is cool!’ They didn’t do that in my old school… Now I had people stop me in the hall and say, ‘You have such a good...
by Eskolta News Team | Feb 7, 2018 | News
“It brought a whole new layer to our work and really deepened our thinking. Instead of just saying to kids, ‘Well, work harder. Do more work,’ we actually had ways to think about this – ‘Is this work valuable to students? Do they feel like they belong in class? What’s...
by Eskolta News Team | Dec 5, 2017 | News
“The teachers would sit me down and say, ‘You have someone depending on you.’ It’s hard… You’re in a dark place and dealing with so many things in life, and people are telling you what you need to do—it can get annoying. But it is also good. It made me...
