Videos
A+ Schools of North Carolina: 2022 Informational Video
Take an inside look into how A+ schools transforms teaching and learning. Since 1995, A+ Schools has been using the arts as a catalyst for creating connections and making schools engaging, meaningful, and enjoyable places to teach and learn. This video, produced by A+ Schools of North Carolina, gives educator testimonials about why A+ Schools is the largest, longest running, most successful arts-based whole-school reform effort in the nation.
Directed and edited by filmmakers Jim Havercamp and Alex Maness.
Introducing A+University: Louisiana
This lesson featuring Jacques Rodrigue, son of renowned artist George Rodrigue, gives the history behind the foundation of Louisiana A+ Schools and testimony to the value of the A+ Schools work
A+ Schools: A Life Changing Experience
This video, created to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of A+ Schools, shares the impact of A+ on teachers, students and administrators. Hear the personal stories of a Principal who because of A+, became a sculptor; of A+ school alumni whose careers are directly related to their A+ experience and of an A+ teacher whose family was inspired through A+ experience. This video celebrates the legacy of A+ as a life changing experience!
A+ Schools of North Carolina: NAEP Spotlight on The Arts-Based School
A wonderful look at one of the schools in our A+ Network, The Arts-Based School in Winston-Salem, NC.
A+ Schools of North Carolina: 2014 Informational Video
A+ Schools of North Carolina is the largest, longest running, most successful arts-based whole-school reform effort in the nation. Since 1995, A+ Schools has been using the arts as a catalyst for creating connections and making school engaging, meaningful and enjoyable places to teach and learn. In this video, learn more about A+ and how it transforms teaching and learning.
TEDx: Jacques Rodrigue Discusses Louisiana A+ Schools
Louisiana A+ Schools is a program of the George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts (GRFA). Jacques Rodrigue, son of famed Blue Dog artist George Rodrigue, bypassed a career in law to work to help Louisiana education through arts-integration. Jacques traces his father's artistic history in order to draw parallels between his own career path and how we have to prepare our students for a life full of unknown opportunities.
President Bill Clinton Mentions A+ Schools on C-SPAN
Former President Bill Clinton and Bill Gates were interviewed by Tamron Hall about debt, taxes, health care costs, immigration, and education.
President Clinton cites A+ Schools as a group successfully graduating K-12 students. National A+ Schools Consortium (NASC) supports the development of creative schools by collaborating and actively guiding the members of the A+ Schools networks in North Carolina, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana.
"Shaping America's Future" Major Trends, New Ideas, and Big Decisions" was part of the Peterson Foundation "2013 Fiscal Summit: Facing the Future."
Recorded on May 7, 2013
