Celebrating Black History Month: Marian Anderson, contralto
In the Fifth Grade music curriculum, students learn about Spirituals such as Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, Down by the Riverside, and Wayfaring Stranger. Here is a recording of Marian Anderson (1897-1993), a contralto with a three-octave range, performing Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child. Performing at the Lincoln Memorial From Wikipedia: […]
Celebrating Black History Month: Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet
One of the poems in the Sixth Grade Core Knowledge Curriculum is Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar. Sympathy BY PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR I know what the caged bird feels, alas! When the sun is bright on the upland slopes; When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass, And the river flows like a stream […]
Excelsior selected as Most Loved Charter School
Excelsior was again selected as the Most Loved Charter School in the Durham-Chapel Hill Hulafrog 2021 Most Loved Awards. We are honored. Thank you!
Excelsior is a winner in the WRAL Voters’ Choice Awards
Excelsior was just picked as the Winner in the Elementary School category of the WRAL Voters’ Choice Awards. 2020 WRAL Voters Choice Awards
ECA is offering three AP Courses for Ninth and Tenth graders for 2021-2022
As our high school grows grade by grade, we are adding courses that will challenge our students and help prepare them for college. In the 2021-22 school year, we are offering three AP courses to our Ninth and Tenth graders. We will continue offering AP World History in Ninth grade, and we are adding AP […]
ECA Upper School posts Dean’s List and A/B Honor Roll
Dean’s List: 6th Grade: Kyla Allison, Leia Allison, Patrick Browning, Jackson Furnas, Macie Herman, Addysen Hodge, Bryce Keaton, Melvin Linder, Caroline Masella, Kaitlyn Miller, Elsha Morrow, Ashton Morris, Henry Mott, Ethan Mullins, Ava Murphy, Sydney Neal, Colin Pence, Ian Phillips, Paloma Polly, Madeline Pun, Katelyn Riehs, Samuel Simpson, Emelia Smith, David Toth, Phi Trinh, Jonah […]
