Hope Academy teacher wins Adopt A Classroom Office Max contest

In September, Office Max emailed information about the Adopt A Classroom contest to recognize teachers that work hard and typically spend money out of their own pocket to pay for supplies and provide the many resources that children need to learn.

At Hope Academy East, Principal Leon Rallings nominated fourth grade teacher Seann Lewis for the Adopt A Classroom Teacher Award.

On Oct. 2, Lewis won the award. He received a framed certificate, a banner and $1,500 worth of school supplies for his classroom.

All teachers at the school received $25 gift cards to the store.

Here is a slide show from the presentation.

Bishop is winner in newsletter name contest

Hats Off to Adrian Stovall from Platinum Technologies for helping us choose our newsletter name of Hats Off.

This entry was a popular choice for many of you!

Stovall was the first to submit this name and he will receive the $50 gift certificate for submitting the name of our newsletter.

We also have a second place winner for our tagline "The voice of school choice." Kenan Bishop from Hope Academies will receive a $25 gift certificate for his winning entry.

Thanks to everyone for their great submissions!

Esperanza pics

Slide show and interview with Trudy from Esperanza program over the summer at Hope Academy Lincoln Park in Cleveland.



Larger slide show

Hope Academies take part in JDRF walk

About 50 students, staff and families from Life Skills Centers, the Ohio & Distance Learning Academy and Hope Academies took part in the JDRF Walk Sept. 8 at the Pro Football Hall of Fame and Museum in Canton.

Various fund-raisers were held, including raffles, weekly bingo games and a silent auction.

The auction featured tickets to the Ohio State-Kent State football games, a gift basket and a loge at a Lake Erie Monsters game.

DELA Division President Jay Brennan also donated $25 per walker.

All together, the schools raised about $1,300 to help fight diabetes.

Here is a video from the event.



Here is a video from a silent auction held before the walk.

Open house planned

Hope Academy Riverside, 3280 River Road, Cincinnati will hold an open house 5-7 p.m. Sept. 20 at the school. The event is open to the community.

A look back

Interviews with students and staff from Hope Academy Lincoln Park's Esperanza program, which was held this summer.


Interview with Esperanza Inc. worker

Interview with student Allan Velez

Two students, Michael and Jasmin, talk about the program

Teacher Sakinah Patton talks about the program

Interview with teacher Sami Roman about the program

Diabetes fight kicks off

Life Skills Centers, Hope Academies and the Ohio Distance and Electronic Learning Academy are teaming up to help fight diabetes.

A kickoff event was held Aug. 8 in the third floor of the Main Place in Akron to launch a drive to raise funds for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

Fruit smoothies and cookies were served and glucose screenings were offered.

Online bingo, raffles and a poker game are planned to raise funds for the walk, which will be held Sept. 8 at the Pro Football Hall of Fame and Museum in Canton.

Participants can register for the walk at www.jdrf.org.



White Hat Management Founder David Brennan spoke at the event about his struggle with diabetes.

You can see his speech here.