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Illustration for a third grader's fabulous story about going to magic school! #bigclass

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Workshop, mucha fuerza! Grandes bailarinas y bailarines; felicitaciones 👏🏼 Coreografía "The Weeknd - Ordinary Life" _________________________________ #Workshop #Choreography #TheWeeknd #OrdinaryLife #BigClass #Dancers #Killa #Killinit #Dope (at Universidad Salesiana Quito)

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Ready for class. #barrestrong💪 #bringonsoremuscles #barreucda #cdafit #barreu #bigclass (at Barre U - A length & strength workout)

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“Big Class is not just a writing program. It’s like a movement. Kids’ voices are getting heard.”

Support the movement. Support Big Class today, GiveNOLA Day. 

https://givenola.org/npo/big-class

All donations matched by 826 National.

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A huge thank you to December’s volunteer of the month, intern extraordinaire Will Livingston Smith! Will has been a consistent, positive presence at Big Class @ Akili over the past semester, where he’s assisted with a 3rd grade bookmaking class, lead workshops in middle school aftercare, and much more!

Interested in volunteering or interning with Big Class? Head to bigclass.org/volunteerapp to fill out an application and sign up for an upcoming volunteer orientation

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A big shout out to Jenna Knoblach, November’s Volunteer of the Month! Jenna has been a consistent volunteer with numerous Big Class projects over the years, from Pizza Poetry to Open Studio, and this year you can find her every Tuesday at Akili aftercare.

Jenna will also be leading the Undrawable Stories workshop coming up Wednesday, November 18th: “Something I’m really excited about is leading the Undrawable Stories workshop this year. Students will write a narrative that is so strange, so bizarre that it will be simply impossible to illustrate.  At Press Street’s 24-hour Draw-a-Thon, artists will make the stories come to life.  This exercise leads young writers to think with images in mind. Communication, for me, has always been visual--whether it is with art or with words.”

Interested in becoming a volunteer? Click here to learn more and sign up!

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The #JazzFest #skywriting today in #NewOrleans has a very important message about #GiveNOLA Day. You can support Big Class's free writing programs for New Orleans youth ages 6-18 with a donation here on Tuesday. For every dollar you send our way, we're eligible for some matching dollars from the Greater New Orleans Foundation.

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Raven Crane is April’s Volunteer of the Month! Raven has been active with in-school projects and Open Studio, and is getting ready to work on our video project with ReNEW Cultural Arts Academy. Thanks, Raven!