This year, in honor of Black History Month, Habans is highlighting the Harlem Renaissance, which took place from the 1920s to the 1930s in New York. This period was filled with the intellectual and cultural revival of Black music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics, scholarship, and more. Keep reading to learn more about this…
CCS is proud to have Monica Landry serving as its current Board Chair. A New Orleans native who lived throughout the United States as a military wife, Monica now devotes her life to giving back to the New Orleans community through her work with various non-profits. She previously served on the finance committee of the…
Director of Evaluation and Appraisal Katherine Chenier has been with CCS since her Doctoral level internship when she began working at Akili Academy in 2013. Katherine is now a licensed psychologist, working in the school system that she grew up in. “At CCS, I feel like everyone is always working together with the best…
One of the reasons that CCS is so unique is because its staff, parents, supporters, and board members believe in the unlimited potential of each child. Connie Labat, one of our newest board members, is a native New Orleanian who attended and taught at William Frantz school, now home to Akili Academy of New…
Despite the pandemic turning the landscape of school upside down, Tubman’s Montessori hybrid model has proven its ability to fight against learning loss. Tubman’s model is a multi-age Montessori hybrid, meaning that each classroom has two teachers- a math teacher and an ELA teacher – as well as ten kindergarteners, ten first graders, and ten…
Dear friends, I am writing to provide you with an update on the Crescent City Schools network – its staff, students, and campuses – in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida. If you are a local New Orleanian, then you have personally witnessed the hurricane’s impact – on your own home, your neighbor’s home, or your…
Paul Habans Charter School’s music program just got a major upgrade! Thanks to the Save The Music Foundation, Habans will soon receive $49,000 worth of new musical instruments and related materials to enhance its existing band program. Habans will receive 36 instruments as part of this grant, including flutes, clarinets, alto saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and…
After serving as Resident Principal at Paul Habans Charter School for the last year, LaKeysha Arthur is excited to begin serving as Principal in the 2021-22 school year. LaKeysha is a founding teacher at Habans and has been at the school for eight years. When LaKeysha first joined the CCS network, she served as a…
On May 4th, 334 donors raised more than $25,000 for Crescent City Schools on GiveNOLA Day, a regional day of online giving organized by the Greater New Orleans Foundation. These funds will go directly to the three schools in the network: Harriet Tubman Charter School, Akili Academy, and Paul Habans Charter School, as well…
Akili Academy’s Ted Gould III was featured in Verizon Innovative Learning Schools’ (VILS) virtual conference earlier this year for his course on remixing music in the classroom. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the limitations it placed on traditional music education, Gould created an innovative music technology course. Gould was able to do…