Uptown Triangle Neighborhood Association

Audubon Charter School

ABOUT AUDUBON CHARTER SCHOOL

With its Montessori and French programs, Audubon Charter School,
formerly Audubon Montessori School/L'Ecole Franco-Americaine, has
created an advanced learning environment driven by a curricula designed
to draw highly-motivated, high-achieving students. Arts education is
another foundation of our program, resulting in students who have:
• an intensified motivation to learn
• better attendance
• improved multicultural understanding
• higher engagement in learning and
• well-developed thinking skills, creativity and problem solving.

INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS

Audubon Charter School is dedicated to the development of creative,
constructive and disciplined learners. This objective is achieved
through uniquely innovative educational programs. Each program
encapsulates those best practices established in educational research,
such as conceptualization through hands-on learning and academic study
through a foreign language.

A RICH LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

The additional assets of our school environment - those of an arts
based instructional focus, multi-culturalism, an effective literacy
component, developmental strategies in the teaching of mathematics, a
diverse student body, an arts-oriented after school program and a
collaborative effort in school leadership combine to provide a rich
learning environment for our students. Measurement of test data shows a
steady progression of growth over time and is testimony to the
effectiveness of our methodology.

OUR COMMUNITY

Audubon Charter School provides educational opportunities for the
children of the New Orleans area. This unique learning community is
composed of highly trained faculty members, supportive parents and
civic leaders. Our environment encourages issues of diversity and
equality. Citizens such as the aforementioned offer the best hope for
New Orleans' collective future as a new cadre of civic and professional
leaders in the community encouraging a communal celebration of
diversity. Students work together on group projects, thereby developing
an appreciation of each individual's unique talents. Our students
graduate as creative thinkers as well as fluent speakers of French.

BRIEF HISTORY OF AUDUBON

Established in 1981, Audubon quickly became an outstanding school
within our community. Demand lead to two-week campouts in order to gain
admission. This resulted in a very strong partnership between parents
and the faculty. The school became the vision of four teachers who met
while attending Montessori certification classes at Tulane University.
Two of the four teachers petitioned the Orleans Parish School Board for
support of this concept and Howard Montessori School was created. This
highly unique inception from the bottom-up guaranteed the success of
the school - as the teachers took ownership and responsibility for its
ultimate success. In 1986, a French component opened within the school
that has been extremely effective for a new cadre of students. The
French government took note, and in 1990, Audubon became an official
French School in an historical agreement between the French Government
and the State of Louisiana. In 2002, the French government designated
our school as a center for effective strategies in the teaching of a
foreign language. We are proud of Audubon and envision even greater
possibilities for our school and, thereby, for our community, as the
newly chartered Audubon Charter School.

Audubon Charter School is located at 428 Broadway St. in Uptown New
Orleans, walking distance from Audubon Park, Audubon Zoo, Tulane and
Loyola Universities. Telepone 504-864-8400 or visit their website at
www.auduboncharter.com

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