News – Summer 2013
2013 Karen Jeff Scholars (from left to right): Sarah Bever, Kathy Cooley, Michelle Shapiro and Melissa Law.
Four New York City public school teachers were awarded Karen Jeff Scholarships to attend a two-day professional development program (Shakespeare Set Free) in New York City this summer.
News
ESU President and Executive Director Alice Boyne welcomes the debaters
Celebrating the second year of the New York Debate League, sponsored by the ESU, two teams of middle school students debated the proposition: "We should welcome the end of the printed book" on June 15 at the Morgan Library & Museum. The teams comprised three students from Hunter High College Community Schools in New York City and three students from the Hackley School in Tarrytown.
Announcement – 04/22/2013, New York City
Xavier Pacheco onstage at Lincoln Center Theater.
Xavier Pacheco from New York City wins the 30th annual ESU National Shakespeare Competition.
Xavier (a resident of Queens) is a student of Gabriel Silva at the Urban Assembly School for the Performing Arts (a pubic high school in the West Harlem
neighborhood of Manhattan).
News – April 23, 2013
Barbara Sutherland, EiA Unit Director, presents a book to one of her students
Students from France, Spain, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Russia and Brazil celebrated World Book Night in New York City during their Tuesday, April 23rd session of English in Action. Their conversation partners presented them with copies of The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros.
They were urged to read the books and then pass them along to someone else. The House on Mango Street was selected because of its focus on the immigrant experience in the US.
Announcement
2013 ESU New York Shakespeare Competition Finalists
The ESU New York Branch would like to congratulate Xavier Pacheco of the Urban Assembly School for the Performing Arts for winning the New York Shakespeare Competition held on March 5th at the Morgan Library.
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