NOCCA Earns Arts Schools Network Exemplary School Designation
NOCCA Earns Arts Schools Network Exemplary School Designation
North Charleston, SC (May 30, 2018) – The Arts Schools Network Board of Directors has designated NOCCA (New Orleans Center for Creative Arts), an Exemplary School in recognition of its commitment to excellence. The five-year designation is awarded for 2018-2023.
Arts Schools Network (ASN), the nation’s largest professional membership organization of specialized arts schools, awards Exemplary School designations to members that follow A Guide to Assessing Your Arts School in strategically evaluating their school’s purpose, operations, and educational programs. The Guide is a collaborative effort by ASN and the Accrediting Commission for Community and Pre-collegiate Arts Schools (ACCPAS). ASN will honor the school at the ASN 2018 Annual Conference, October 23-26, 2018 in Orange County, California.
NOCCA, Louisiana’s Arts Conservatory for high school students, provides intensive instruction in: classical instrumental, culinary arts, creative writing, dance, drama, jazz instrumental, media arts, musical theatre, theatre design, visual arts and vocal; it also offers a rigorous and innovative full day academic program. The program is tuition-free to all Louisiana students who meet audition requirements. Students from over 100 public, private, parochial and home schools attend the half-day arts program or attend NOCCA for the full day.
NOCCA’s track record over the past 45 years speaks for itself: every year a remarkable 95% of NOCCA graduates go on to college and conservatory programs across the country with the 2018 class of 111 students receiving over $21.1 million collectively, which is an average of over $190,000 per student. The key to NOCCA’s success is the pedagogy and curriculum delivered in the artist apprentice model; the ethic of discipline and responsibility it instills in students; and the individual voice and esthetic students work to develop which prepares them to be engaged artists and intellectuals for life.
Melissa Brookes, Managing Director for ASN, said, “We offer guidance, inspiration and incentives to arts school leaders who strive for excellence in their schools. When they demonstrate outstanding efforts toward this goal, as they do by following ASN’s Guide to Assessing Your Arts School, we recognize and reward their achievements with this designation.”
Kyle Wedberg, President | CEO of NOCCA, shared, “NOCCA was a founding institution for ASN and continues to help lead this national organization. Next week we will host a national convening and training here at NOCCA. We are proud to be the gold standard for arts education in Louisiana and a national caliber institution and player in the field on behalf of the state.”
Dedicated to excellence and leadership in arts education, Arts Schools Network, a non-profit association founded in 1981, provides arts school leaders, innovative partners and members of arts education institutions with quality resources, support and networking opportunities.
Visit www.artsschoolsnetwork.org to learn more.
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About NOCCA
New Orleans Center for Creative Arts is Louisiana’s arts conservatory for high school students. NOCCA offers students from across the state tuition-free arts instruction in Creative Writing, Culinary Arts, Dance, Media Arts (Filmmaking and Audio Production), Music, Theatre Arts, and Visual Arts. Students may attend half-day or afterschool in their accepted arts discipline or full-day in the NOCCA Academic Studio Program. For more information, please visit www.nocca.com or call 504.940.2787.
NOCCA is an agency of the state of Louisiana, John Bel Edwards, Governor.