Congratulations are in order for Randy Botkin of Scavo High School, the 2015 Iowa Association of Alternative Education (IAAE) Educator of the Year. Randy has worked in the Des Moines Public Schools for 22 years, all of them …
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. seems far removed from Cattell Elementary School in Des Moines, right? But they’re only a stone’s dance apart. It’s like this: Randy Barron has danced and …
Des Moines Public Schools – a Turnaround Arts hot zone – is beginning to draw as many celebrities as a Los Angeles Lakers game. Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker, Tony-winner John Lloyd Young, and along with Thursday’s drizzling rain, another …
The Roosevelt High School Theatre Arts Department presents “Playing Shakespeare,” bringing together three One Act plays based upon the works of the Bard of Avon into one fun-filled evening. Performances are on Friday, April 10 and Saturday, April 11 at …
The alleys of Des Moines were crowded with traffic on Thursday. Not the asphalted alleys between downtown buildings but the kind covered in hard wood and varnish, as hundreds of Des Moines elementary students did their best to …
