Category Archives: Featured 
The Washington Post…In this elementary school, there are things a visitor might notice, little touches that become obvious walking through the door. Children’s artwork is hung carefully, showing that it is valued.
And there is this: It often is …
Richmond Times-Dispatch…Dan Zanes and Claudia Eliaza stood on the steps of an elevated stage in Woodville Elementary School and began to speed up their song.
Students, antsy before the start of Thanksgiving vacation, were below them, doing the knee-slapping
Upworthy…When Rabeetah Hasnain teaches, she resists telling her students what to think.
There’s no need to just drill them on facts they memorized.
Instead, she loves to witness her special education students’ eyes light up with understanding and growing …
Cision PRWeb…Brooklyn-based ed-tech company Flocabulary announces a donation of its hip-hop learning platform to 28 high-needs schools across the country through a new partnership with national arts-based learning organization Turnaround Arts. Through these donations, all teachers, staff and students …
Providence Journal…Singer Valerie June was taking pictures of the classroom doors at Roger Williams Middle School on Thurbers Avenue on Monday morning.
“This is so cool,” she said.
The doors were decorated with photos, drawings, paintings and messages welcoming …
KFYR-TV…Four time Grammy award winning DJ IZ Avila met the students at Mekoche Recording Studio to teach them about music production.
IZ is best known for traveling the globe as the DJ for Usher, U2’s Bono, and Stevie Wonder. …
Monterey Herald…Sam Humphrey walks around the tan hallways of his new elementary school, MLK School of the Arts, and sees not just empty walls, but many possibilities.
The lawn will be converted into an art garden, he said Wednesday. …
VOA News…In some of the lowest performing elementary and middle schools in the U.S., students are learning in an unconventional way.
“I like to act and I like to sing and I like to dance,” said 10-year-old Kayla Driakare, …
NBC Nightly News…Former New York Yankees star Bernie Williams is participating in the ‘Turnaorund Arts’ program, which brings arts education to schools that need them the most.
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