Our Mission Statement
Our Mission Statement
The purpose of the Eta Sigma Alpha National Home School Honor Society is to recognize and encourage scholarship among home educated students. To achieve this purpose, the society provides opportunities for the development of leadership and service.
Eta Sigma Alpha encourages the development of an intellectual climate that stimulates the exchange of ideas and ideals, fosters scholarship and promotes academic excellence. ESA also advocates home education as a viable and successful educational methodology and acts as a liaison for home schooling to the general public, colleges and universities, and the media.
Our History
Eta Sigma Alpha is the first honor society established exclusively for home educated students. Founded in 1999 by Joanne E. Juren, M.Edtate, Executive Director of the Home Education Partnership of Texas, it has grown into a national organization.
As a former public school administrator, Mrs. Juran contacted the National Honor Society with the intent of forming a Homeschool chapter for her own sons and others in a local support group in 1997. When told that NHS did not accept home educated students, Juren decided to start a new honor society for home schooled students. Over the next two years, the idea for Eta Sigma Alpha was refined and the “Alpha” chapter was started in 1999 through the Hone Education Partnership of Texas.
Today there are over 150 active chapters in 36 states. York County’s first chapter is Lambda Gamma and was established in the summer of 2003 by Cynthia Spratley.
Our Name
Eta, the Greek letter that is shaped like an “H” and Sigma, the letter shaped like an “S” were chosen along with Alpha, the first letter in the Greek alphabet. Thus the name means “first home school” honor society.
The purpose of the Eta Sigma Alpha National Home School Honor Society is to recognize and encourage scholarship among home educated students. To achieve this purpose, the society provides opportunities for the development of leadership and service.
Eta Sigma Alpha encourages the development of an intellectual climate that stimulates the exchange of ideas and ideals, fosters scholarship and promotes academic excellence. ESA also advocates home education as a viable and successful educational methodology and acts as a liaison for home schooling to the general public, colleges and universities, and the media.
Our History
Eta Sigma Alpha is the first honor society established exclusively for home educated students. Founded in 1999 by Joanne E. Juren, M.Edtate, Executive Director of the Home Education Partnership of Texas, it has grown into a national organization.
As a former public school administrator, Mrs. Juran contacted the National Honor Society with the intent of forming a Homeschool chapter for her own sons and others in a local support group in 1997. When told that NHS did not accept home educated students, Juren decided to start a new honor society for home schooled students. Over the next two years, the idea for Eta Sigma Alpha was refined and the “Alpha” chapter was started in 1999 through the Hone Education Partnership of Texas.
Today there are over 150 active chapters in 36 states. York County’s first chapter is Lambda Gamma and was established in the summer of 2003 by Cynthia Spratley.
Our Name
Eta, the Greek letter that is shaped like an “H” and Sigma, the letter shaped like an “S” were chosen along with Alpha, the first letter in the Greek alphabet. Thus the name means “first home school” honor society.