Fourth-generation New Orleanian and Best of the Beat Lifetime Achievement honoree in Music Education Jonathan Bloom was destined for the classroom. The veteran teacher, a dedicated figure in the Orleans Parish School Board since 1981 and current Arts in Education Specialist for OPS, hails from a musical family. Bloom has spent most of his career in middle school classrooms and the local school system at large. It’s a life of service—“a calling”—he feels blesse...