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Creative schools includes work in 15 orleans parish public schools transforming classrooms through arts integration. Schools receive collaborative artist residencies and comprehensive professional development for classroom teachers. During collaborative residencies, teaching artists and teachers co-plan and co-teach instructional units, using common core standards for both arts and academic content. Residencies last for the full year and each of our 3,000+ students worked with a teaching artist an average of 30 - 60 hours. Professional development opportunities include axis, a full-year, intensive arts integration professional development program for teams from each of the creative schools, individual coaching of teachers in their classrooms and full-faculty workshops.

Noaea: the new orleans arts education alliance (artsedall) has the mission of ensuring every child in new orleans has access to meaningful, high-quality arts education. Artsedall works toward this mission by engaging in district and state-level arts advocacy, informing policy, and connecting schools with arts partnerships, resources and professional development.

Bloomberg arts internship - through the program, select public highschool students will be connected with a paid internship at a local cultural institution, learning valuable skills that prepare them for success in higher education or any career field they may choose to pursue. Alumni are eligible to participate in internships at a cultural organization during college, further developing professional skills to prepare them for a career after graduation. Since 2012, the program has supported over 1,700 internships at more than 250 cultural organizations across seven cities including new orleans.