New Orleans’ Young Designers

Students attending Paul Habans Charter School were given the chance of a lifetime to design the school’s playground.  Students worked directly with an architectural firm, Spackman Mossop Michaels, to design the green playground and their ideas were welcomed by the firm. The students made an aspirational list of what they wanted to see and visualized their ideal play space on paper. Once the class finalized its list and drawings, Spackman Mossop Michaels materialized… Read More

New Charter School

Athlos Academy, a new public charter school,  will open in Jefferson Parrish in the fall.  Athlos currently has schools in Minnesota and Utah, and this will be the first school in Louisiana. “The main thing that makes us stand out as a school is that we believe in strong academics, but we believe that educating a child takes so much more than academics alone. So, we have a three- pillar approach to… Read More