Date - Spring 2008 - Essentials Educational Services and Products opens African-American Reading Room and WiFi Cafe. The community can make faxes, copies, browse a sizable selection of books, sit in a cordial environment and read or buy one of Intisar's Gourmet Dessert specially made cakes, cookies and pies. Don't forget to stop over at EZ MiniMart. Located at 121 Wilbraham Avenue right near EZ MiniMart.

Date - Winter 2007 - Intisar's Gourmet Desserts now has a home. The company opened up EZ MiniMart which is located at 119 Wilbraham Avenue, across from MCDI near  AIC and Springfield College.   We sell beef patties, and all of Intisar's popular desserts including double chocolate cookies, Circle of Abundance cookies, bean pies, mixes, spices and more. Stop in between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.

Date - Summer 2006  - Proud Me program in Hartford, CT a success. Conceived by Ms. Evette Moore to celebrate the wealth of talent and positive abilities in our community this daylong event feature music, dance, and education. Art programs were directed by Diane Makini Bilal, Renay Jihad, and Mary Ingram.

Date - Summer 2006 Cleo Graham speaks at many venues throughout the Providence, Rhode Island area promoting her new book. Book is now in its third printing.

Date - Summer 2006 Dhafir Jihad, Musician "Tributes" CD graduates from Sanford Brown Institute with a 4.0 average. CONGRATULATIONS!

Date - Summer 2006 -   Diane Makini Bilal participated in the International Festival of Arts and Ideas providing a Face Off  and Mandela workshop in New Haven, CT.

Date - Summer 2006 - Author Renay Jihad has two new books being released this summer: Scarves and Bandanas, popularly received by her 7th grade students this year and The Red Dot - IdioThinkcratic stories that will make you laugh and think.

Date - Summer 2004  - Essentials Educational Services and Products company called E-Records artist Barak performs for area colleges, clubs, schools and social gatherings spreading a message of hope and peace to youths. Call 782-1006 to book an engagement.

EESPLUS Cleo Graham earns her certification from Dr. Joyce Seymour's school of Health and Healing and is now a certified presenter. Cleo Graham publishes book entitled, From Mess to Message - Understanding the Hidden healing Messages Behind Pain and Suffering. Selling like hotcakes. Visit Thornton Books to order.

EESPLUS www.bidonbeats.com is launched. This company, headed by Sabir J. ,composed a commercial that is being played throughout the tri-sate area. 

 

Date - Fall 2003 - SOY BEAN PIES FINALLY AVAILABLE. Intisar does it again with her Sweet and Creamy Soy Bean Pie in a crunchy  whole wheat, regular or  graham crust.  Visit http://www.beanpies.com to see a picture of this totally satisfying dessert. Quickly becoming a bestseller.

 

Date - Summer 2003 - Essentials Educational Services  and Products works for the NBPTS in Atlanta, GA to score teacher test. 

 

Date: Summer 2003 - Bean Pie Mix product is launched in Springfield, MA. Visit http://www.beanpies.com for further information. 

 

Summer 2003 - Digital Edge Project hits the web in September. Visit the Apple Interchange site in order to see live footage of Mrs. Ingram's class.

    

Date - February 2003 - Essentials Educational Services and Products meet with NBPTS and Digital Edge Coordinators to review footage and text for project. Fourteen teachers participated along with representatives from four colleges. New teachers, novice practitioners, colleges, universities and parents will be able to access the data base of teaching lesson and "greatest hits" once our projects are published online. Presently the Interchange gets nearly two thousand hits a day.

 

Date - November 12-17th - Director of Essentials Educational Services receives recognition at the 30th annual National Alliance of Black School Educators in Atlanta, Georgia for one of 600 African-American National Board Certified Teachers out of 16,000 total. http://www.nabse.org

 

Date - Autumn - 2002 

 Essentials Educational Services Plus selected to review lesson plans for NCTE's Marco Polo educational site for http://www.Scholastic.com. Visit http://www.ncte.org to view creative lesson plans related to the teaching of reading and writing as it relates to mysteries. Also, EESPLUS worked for the National Educational Evaluations Systems, Inc testing  and review staff  to review new teacher tests in Marlborough, Ma at the Radisson Hotel. Nearly 150 teachers from across the state were in attendance representing various academic disciplines. 

          

Date - Summer - 2002  

Renay Intisar Ingram one of fourteen nationally selected teachers participates in the Digital Edge Learning Exchange (Press Release)    sponsored by Apple Computer, NBPTS and ISTE ( International Society for Technology in Education).  Also Ingram travels southeast as an Assessor for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. See link at bottom of page. 

Date - Spring 2002  

  9/11  Hope Quilts were exhibit at the 

Hatikva  Holocaust Center in Longmeadow, Ma. Student writings were also on display. Fifty-five Hope Quilts have been donated to victims families.

Date - May 2002  

Essentials Educational Services uses the services of  http://www.LightningSource a subsidiary of Ingram Books, the largest book distributor in the country, to begin distributing their books. Essentials Educational Services is now  accepting manuscripts that 1) uplift the spirit and educational motivation of young people; 2) offer new teaching methods that accelerate learning; 3) poetry by and for people of all ages; 5) juvenile fiction novels that inspire and motivate youngsters. Print-On-Demand technology is making this all happen. You can write and sell your book. Contact renayIngram@hotmail.com for further information.                                                       

Date - March 11, 2002                                                                                                                 

Hope Quilts Take On A Life of Their Own. 

Fifty Hope Quilts were made this year by area students in response to the recent events of 9/11. Students wrote nearly 50 poems all giving prayers, wishes of hope for peace and condolences to the victims of violence. For a free copy send an email to: renayingram@hotmail.com.

Date -- September 2001-June 2002                                                                                             

New Teachers Receive Mentoring Services  

Essentials Educational Services Director Renay Intisar Ingram is coordinating the mentoring program at her school, Chestnut Accelerated Middle School. More than 25 teachers will benefit from the coordinated efforts by the administrators, the Mass. Dept. of Education and other teachers and professional development organizers. New teacher retention is the has been deemed the number one priority on the part of the MDOE (Mass. Department of Education). Teacher Mary Hill and Sharlene Silverman are also helping with this wonderful opportunity to assist teachers in adjusting to the exhilarating job of teaching youngsters in a middle school setting.

Date -- October 14, 2001                                                                                                                

Poet Renay Intisar Ingram Speaks at Springfield College  

Poet Renay Ingram spoke on Sunday - October 14, 2001 to students who are receiving their masters degree in human services about the recent tragedies  of 9/11. She read from her books and sold them to a receptive audience. 

Recent Media Coverage - News Articles - Archives                                                     

Springfield, (MA) Journal  - Poetry Cafe - May 2000

Union News of Springfield, MA - May 2001                                                     

Many Different Faces of Poetry Published

MTA News - May 2000  -  National Board Certified Teachers for Mass announced

Union News - September 18, 2001  - Hope Quilt Project 

in response to Nine/Eleven

Digital Edge Project Launched - Summer 2002 Renay Ingram 

will produce  iMovies for internet with students

News Links

Public School Students Respond to Tragedy Through Community ...

Read About Hope Quilts

Community Connection- World Cultures Reading Class

For Parents and Students

Springfield Journal -  National Board Certified Teachers in Springfield, MA

NMR- UpChina3  - My Visit to China

http://www.new-millennium-ride.org/ (click on school page for PangLui Village)

EESPLUS News Page

African Muslims amexemtimes3.html

Spring Focus on China and Korea

Florida Center for Instructional Technology

Other Linkshad

Visit http://www.Nottydesigns.com  and www.bidonbeats.com

A Subsidiary of Essentials Educational Services Plus for...

Hip-Hop Beats and  Funky Web Design Services

Visit http://www.defpoetryjam.com  to read

 "They Do Not See The Great" and "Noah" by Renay Ingram

Visit http://www.poetry.com to read

 "Moments Polished Supremely" and "A Moment of Silence" by Renay Ingram 

Visit http://www.thestarlitecafe.com/cgi-bin/poetcorner_submit.pl

to read poems by Essentials author Renay Ingram

Visit http://www.masslive.com

Essentials Educational Services Visits the 

Florida Educational Technology Conference (FETC)