The High School for Arts, Imagination and Inquiry offers students the chance to explore dance, music, drama, and visual arts with teaching artists from the not-for-profit Lincoln Center Institute just across the street. This new, small school, one of five in the old Martin Luther King Jr. High School building, uses the arts to engage students and enrich their lives. "We think the arts should be a strong part of a child's education, [but] we don't focus on performance or technique," said Principal Stephen Noonan, a graduate of the city's Leadership Academy, a program to train new principals, and the former assistant principal at Samuel Gompers High School in the Bronx. Rather, he said, the school strives to integrate arts into the academic curriculum and to encourage students to appreciate various art forms.