Wednesday, August 7, 2013

On-Site Professional Development Begins



One of the three legs of the A+ Stool is of course professional development training for teachers.  LAA+ hosts large scale multiple-day off-site trainings for entire faculties of all our schools.

Plus, we visit each of our member schools during the course of the year to conduct customized training in arts-integration and A+ methods based upon the actual requests of what a school thinks it needs.


This week, we began our first trainings at Riverside Academy in Reserve and at Epiphany Day School in New Iberia, Louisiana.


Our Fellows gave our schools further instruction on curriculum mapping in order to more thoroughly integrate the arts into actual lesson plans during the upcoming school year.


We are so excited to be working with ALL of our Member Schools and look forward to seeing them transform as they begin to implement the Eight A+ Essentials.


(pictured throughout, photos taken by our participants and Fellows and posted to Twitter @AplusLA or using the hashtag #aplusla)

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Summer Institute Media Coverage



Selected news coverage from the first Louisiana A+ Schools Summer Institute (2013), which was held in June on the campus of LSU. Interviews with Jean Hendrickson, Executive Director, Oklahoma A+ Schools and Jacques Rodrigue, Executive Director of the George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts. Louisiana A+ Schools is a program of the George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts. Credit WVLA and WBRZ Baton Rouge.