Turnaround Arts: DC

Moten’s the Whiz! What a way to celebrate three years of hard work. Lion King, Annie, and The Whiz all in one week! Thank you Brookland MS for lending your black box theater and thank you Elizabeth Banks for all your ❤️ and support! We couldn’t have done this journey without you. Thank you 😊

The musicals get bigger and better at Noyes ES! Out of the some 220 students, 150 were in this year’s Lion King. Hakuna Matata - a very important lesson in life. Shout out to Ashlee Smith and her arts team!

Last year it was the mural, this year it’s ANNIE! Turner pulled off an amazing rendition tonight. and D!!!! thanks Turnaround Arts. Tears 😭 of victory at the end and a whole school sing along to TOMORROW! Come on!

Hey, try to hold back those tears! SHOUT OUT to TURNER!!!! Thanks to DCPS Arts Music Festival at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Annie cast got a full dress rehearsal. Musicals are amazing for students, letting them embody a story with music, dance, teachers and students...This is Turner’s first musical eVER

woo hoo Turner Rockets! Here’s to Ms. D and Dr. E for leading students to put on their first school musical!!

MOVING THROUGH MATH with Marcia Daft, Kennedy Center Teaching Artist Bunker Hill Elementary School! 😊

Thanks Turnaround Arts! We’re using our Whole School Strategy grant to integrate music in math is instruction. Thanks to Bunker Hill Elementary School teachers for showing up for PD on this windy day!

We’ve grateful to Turnaround Arts Artists who share their passions with our students. Read about Amanda Lucidon’s work: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/how-a-former-white-house-photographer-helped-these-dc-kids-learn/2017/12/10/22660dee-dc2e-11e7-b859-fb0995360725_story.html

Look at Turner Elementary featured in our local papers:

DC School Teams Up with Muralists to Create Outdoor Learning Space - East of the River When students at Turner Elementary School returned to classes this fall, they were greeted with a spectacular sight: a school garden in full bloom after months in the summer sun, and behind it the enormous image of a rocket ship blasting off the outer wall into outer space. The mural embodies not on...

Merry Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza...we celebrate it all Noyes Education Campus with Turnaround Arts! After 3 years, Noyes is rocking and rolling with more and more parents attending their monthly arts assemblies! huge shout out to Ashlee Smith and all NOYES educators- every classroom performed today. Happy holidays to all our friends in the Turnaround family.