Hope Stone brings dance to the NOLA populace
It’s taken more than a year, but Dana Reed has transformed Hope Stone, an unusual community dance center, from being a local satellite of a Houston program to a 100 percent New Orleans-based,...
View ArticleCity Year volunteers help keep students on track
It was 6 o’ clock on an early October evening and the temperature was still a toasty 84 degrees. But there they were: 43 young men and women on the patio of the Samuel J. Green Charter School on ...
View ArticleAlfre Woodard, Trombone Shorty celebrate school's turnaround
With Alfre Woodard and Trombone Shorty on the Homer A. Plessy Community School campus Tuesday, you can forgive the students and teachers for being a little star-struck. The Oscar-nominated actress and...
View ArticleLusher student named 'National Student Poet'
While most high-school students are fretting over pop quizzes, gym class and homecoming dates, Lusher student and poetic protogy Madeleine LeCesne has been reading her work to some of the biggest...
View ArticleVoices from the Classroom: The arts in education reform
Editor's note: In a new series called Voices from the Classroom: The Arts in Education Reform, NolaVie and cultural partner WWNO public radio are teaming up to take a look at how the arts are being...
View ArticleVoices from the Classroom: Art and recovery
Editor's note: In a new series called Voices from the Classroom: The Arts in Education Reform, NolaVie and cultural partner WWNO public radio are teaming up to take a look at how the arts are being...
View ArticleVoices from the Classroom: Bring back the band
In today's Voices from the Classroom segment, Sharon Litwin talks to Orleans Parish School Board arts specialist Jonathan Bloom about music in our schools, and the way it used to be.
View ArticleVoices from the Classroom: Young Audiences Charter School
Editor's note: With Voices from the Classroom: The Arts in Education Reform, NolaVie and cultural partner WWNO public radio are teaming up to take a look at how the arts are being used creatively in...
View ArticleBroadmoor Arts and Wellness Center
These days, when you drive or walk the length of General Pershing from Broad Street toward South Claiborne, you can tell something is growing there. There in Broadmoor, in the heart of New Orleans, a...
View ArticleA+ Schools add the arts to STEM, creates STEAM
It’s a simple equation for many schools today: pressure to improve standardized test scores equals more focus on the stem subjects – science, technology, engineering, and math. And that equals less...
View ArticleViewpoint: Why UNO matters
Last December 10, NOLA.com published an alarming article with the headline, “Saying goodbye to the University of New Orleans.” It described the lamentable course of events that have befallen the...
View ArticleVoices on Education: Taking art beyond the studio
There’s a trend in education these days to turn STEM into STEAM – that is, adding the A for Arts to the traditional curriculum of Science, Technology, English and Math. At Isidore Newman School in New...
View ArticleMaker Movement Kids Week: Brainy is beautiful
The epiphany struck Cherie Melancon Franz last year, during her 11-year-old daughter’s birthday party. “It was a spa party, with makeup and manicures,” recalls the New Orleans native and Ursuline...
View ArticleCreating New Orleans icons for peace
On Saturday morning, a group of peacemakers will gather at St. Roch cemetery in St. Roch, their message one of hope and unity in a world that too often is the opposite. For organizers of the Icons for...
View ArticleBringing art to life at the New Orleans JCC
Just off the main entrance of the New Orleans Jewish Community Center on St. Charles Avenue, the expansive walls of the Board Room are adorned with brightly colored art. The display, a product of the...
View ArticleWhy parents are choosing an arts-rich curriculum for their kids
This weekend, 5000 arts educators are meeting in New Orleans, at the National Art Educators convention, to talk about the ways in which arts in the classroom can create better critical thinkers for our...
View ArticleLiberty's Kitchen expands offerings for at-risk youth
The entire first site of Liberty’s Kitchen – all 1,800 square feet of the ground floor of a nearby raised cottage -- would fit into the kitchen alone of its new 10,000-square-foot digs next door to the...
View ArticleStudents in Goat in the Road's Play/Write showcase speak up
On Monday, May 11, New Orleans-based theatre company Goat in the Road Productions will present a showcase for their Play/Write program, a year-long arts integrated curriculum designed to teach loacl...
View ArticleVoices on Education: The Waldorf way
The Waldorf School in New Orleans is located in a renovated bread factory in the Irish Channel. That’s appropriate, because, while other schools have recently been adding arts integration and...
View ArticleXavier professor Dan Shore says goodbye to NOLA
I recently taught my very last class at Xavier University. I've pulled up my proverbial stakes and headed back up north, where I look forward to spending more time with my wife and family and more time...
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