Ashley Wilson, a Kindergarten Teacher at Success Academy Harlem 3 was one of 17 winners of New York City’s Big Apple Award, a competitive prize that rewards “exceptional success” in instruction, impact on student learning, and overall contributions to school communities.

Success Academy Cobble Hill and Digital Arts and Cinema Technology High School collaborated on their first annual art parade this week. The event featured over 300 SA students marching while showing off wearable art. Four students from Digital Arts and Cinema Technology High School, which shares a building with SA Cobble Hill, filmed the art parade — the latest example of an ongoing collaboration between the co-located schools.

When New York’s first round of Common Core state test results came out in 2013, student results plummeted across all schools, district and charter. Achievement First’s co-CEO Dacia Toll says “Common Core was like an earthquake and I’m standing over here in the rubble of my charter network and I look up. And darn it if there isn’t this building standing, looking almost unharmed in the middle of this earthquake. Do you know who it was? Success Academies“.

Two Cobble Hill schools bonded through art and film. Success Academy Cobble Hill and the Digital Arts and Cinema Technology School share a campus. The high school students filmed SA Cobble Hill’s costume arts parade.

Last week, the city’s Panel for Education Policy approved seven charter school colocations, providing them space in public school buildings. That brings the total number of charter colocations okayed to 21 this year — double the average during the previous four years of the de Blasio administration. This increase is a welcome change, but the city could still be doing more to find room for charters.

From the great Kasparov to Bobby Fisher, the game of chess has long been dominated by men where, in terms of popularity, boys out number girls 20 to 1. But at Success Academy Hudson Yards in Manhattan, “queens” reign supreme. The charter school took home six trophies at the 15th Annual All-Girls Chess Championship in Chicago this past weekend.

A Success Academy girls chess team upset perennial juggernaut Stuyvesant HS at a Chicago tournament over the weekend to claim its first national championship. The charter network also crowned its first ever individual national champion as Nura Baalla, a sixth-grader at Success’ Hudson Yards location, won the under-12 division.

Success Academy students Emily Booncharoen and Pari Patni took home the top two spots for the K-6 championship division in New York State’s first ever Girls Chess Championship this past weekend. Their team, Success Academy Hudson Yards, placed first in the division.

More than four thousand Success Academy students from 24 elementary schools across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx gathered at Barclays Center Friday morning to celebrate their hard work and achievements ahead of state exams.