Becoming an Orleans Public Education Network member is the best way to get involved in the public education conversation and support our work. We offer a wide variety of ways to get involved with the movement, so pick one or more of your favorite approaches and get on board today!
Community Engagement Opportunities
Community Educators
OPEN is recruiting community educator facilitators to implement engagement strategies that wil ensure a citywide discussion and action in impacting our youth and the issues that most directly affect them in New Orleans. Click here to learn more!
Public Education Day at the Capitol
Every spring, OPEN brings a group of engaged citizens to Baton Rouge during the Legislative Session. Participants attend meetings of the Education Committee, tour the Capitol, talk with legislators and learn about the processes behind school governance. Click here to learn more!
Membership Meetings
When you join OPEN, you become part of a movement that is supporting New Orleans students from the ground level up. We cordially invite you not just to join OPEN, but to BE OPEN — to new ideas, to different voices, and to the wisdom of the community. Click here to learn more about OPEN membership.
To become a member, just download this form and email it to [email protected] today!
Legislative Breakfast
Our annual Legislative Breakfast brings together students, educators, parents and policymakers to learn from each other through robust but respectful dialogue. Click here to read a recap and see pictures of the Legislative Breakfast 2015!
Annual Convenings
In early 2012, OPEN convened the Coalition for Community Leadership in Education (CCLE), a group of New Orleans residents who desired greater community ownership of public schools and a common commitment to the academic, physical, and emotional wellbeing of New Orleans children. Through a series of convenings and press conferences, these citizens demanded a fair process that empowered communities to improve public education throughout the city, and protested the corporate reform and community disenfranchisement that accompanied the then-current reform movement.
OPEN has kept its tradition of convening the community going strong, with frequent open meetings and town halls to engage New Orleans’ population in the discussion and synthesize their wisdom into goals, recommendations and policy changes.