On October 19th, Roberto Clemente Community Academy High School hosted a day of service for the Clemente City Year team’s sponsor, Hyatt. Representatives of Hyatt Chicago attended the event in addition to global leaders of Hyatt locations as far away as Hong Kong and New Delhi. Our Hyatt sponsors initial intention was to bond as...
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7th & 8th Graders Ice Cream Social
7th and 8th Graders (& Families): Date: 11/04/2013 Time: 5:30 – 7:00 PM Roberto Clemente 4th Floor Lunchroom You are invited to an Ice Cream Social at Clemente! Enjoy a sundae while talking to current freshman and sophomore students, plus meet their teachers. Find out about high school life, sports, clubs, academics… and anything else...
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Assessment at Clemente
Assessment at Clemente Assessments administered in Clemente classrooms are centered on 4 major sets of standards: the Common Core State Standards, College Readiness Standards, the Next Generation Science Standards, and IB Assessment Criteria. Instruction is targeted at improving student capacity in these three areas and building toward mastery, so that students are prepared for college...
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Clemente Faculty and Staff Takes a Walk down Paseo Boricua
On Wednesday, October 9, 2013 something historic happened in our community. For the first time in 40 years, the faculty and staff of Roberto Clemente Community Academy took an educational walk down Paseo Boricua to learn about and become familiar with the community in which they teach. It was an incredible fall day when over...
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Transformation at Clemente
Roberto Clemente Community Academy has been undergoing comprehensive school reform since June 2011, when current principal Marcey Sorensen and her administrative team arrived. Most notable among the many changes at Roberto Clemente Community Academy is their status as an IB Candidate School. 2012-13 marks the first year of alignment with the Middle Years Programme...
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Clemente Students Visit Local Universities
During the month of October, freshmen and sophomores were given the opportunity to visit local universities. The purpose of this trip was to expose students to college life and get them excited about their post-secondary planning. The sophomore college trips were planned according to students’ GPA and 9th grade EXPLORE scores, so that students were...
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Homecoming Win Ends Clemente Football Season
Clemente’s varsity football team won the 2013 Homecoming game on Thursday, defeating Kelvyn Park 16-7. This victory concludes the Wildcat season with a 4-3 division record in the Intercity-1 Conference. Tailback Christian Rivera led the offense with 12 carries for 115 yards. Rivera also scored on a 67-yard TD run that gave the Wildcats an...
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Clemente volunteers at the 2013 Bank of America Chicago Marathon
Last Sunday, a group of students from Roberto Clemente Community Academy volunteered at the 2013 Bank of America Chicago Marathon. Clemente students were responsible for setting up and maintaining water stations to hydrate the long-distance runners. Positioned at mile 15 on Ogden Avenue, Clemente’s aid station was just past the halfway point in the 26.2...
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Clemente volunteeres at the 2013 Bank of America Chicago Marathon
Last Sunday, a group of students from Roberto Clemente Community Academy volunteered at the 2013 Bank of America Chicago Marathon. Clemente students were responsible for setting up and maintaining water stations to hydrate the long-distance runners. Positioned at mile 15 on Ogden Avenue, Clemente’s aid station was just past the halfway point in the 26.2...
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Clemente Steel Band – Hispanic Heritage Month
The Roberto Clemente Steel Band was started in the 1960’s by S. Thomas Henry, who then followed the program to the newly-built Roberto Clemente High School in the early 1970s. The steel band has been known throughout the Chicago area ever since, performing for the Puerto Rican People’s Parade, Dia de los Ninos Parade in...