With the goal of augmenting and enhancing music and dance instruction in public schools, St. Luke's Arts Education Program has developed a program that places both music and dance teaching artists in elementary and middle schools around New York City.

Teaching artists and teachers develop project-based residency programs that connect artistic ideas that emerge from each OSL Education performance with learning goals identified by teachers from their own classrooms. OSL's teaching artists and mentor musicians also collaborate with school-based music teachers to support skills-based and artistic development of music students within the NYCDOE Blueprint framework.

Students participate in 16 teaching artist sessions during the school year clustered around attendance at three performances throughout the school year. Generally students explore ideas and concepts found in the music through a series of classroom activities that culminate in a performance project that unifies classical music and student experience.