Welcome to The ESSENCE Program
The ESSENCE Program is a 501c3 not-for-profit supplemental educational service that seeks to strengthen the academic performance of students in K-12 Louisiana public and charter schools by using information about the life, history, and culture of African American Louisiana as foundation for direct student instruction and teacher professional development.
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ESSENCE Summer Institutes & Seminars are two week intensive professional development sessions for K-12 teachers.
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ESSENCE also thanks its many private donors and supporters from Greater New Orleans and the River Parish Region
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ESSENCE welcomes donations to support curricular planning, direct services, assessment, and reporting. Donations are tax deductible and are made through Paypal, a secure, data encrypted e-commerce business that performs payment processing for a wide range of corporations, vendors, and organizations. To make a donation, click here :: donate ::