Every day, our students are engaged in education. In different ways, City Schools staff serve the students of Baltimore, from playgroups for children three and younger to hands-on engagement in high school classrooms. Education is at the heart of every program, initiative, and activity in City Schools - so take a look at just some of the learning that happened this week!
At City Schools, students explore career and college options through various means, including visits from adults who discuss their careers. Recently, Ego Nwodim, best known for her current work on "Saturday Night Live," visited City Springs to share her journey, inspiring students to pursue their dreams.
John Ruhrah's Judy Center had a fantastic turnout at their weekly Fun with Foreign Language playgroup. Children and parents worked together to create fall artwork emphasizing counting, color identification, and fine motor skills.
As part of City Springs' Social Justice curriculum, their eighth-grade students recently enjoyed a powerful performance by Black Chakra.
City Schools' 2019 Teacher of the Year, Kyair Butts, shared lessons designed to help students with foundational reading supports – check out this lesson about multisyllabic words!
Hamilton fifth-grade students created edible models of the moon's phases using Oreo cookies. What a tasty way to learn!
Fine Arts education has grown over the past years at City Schools. Listen to Mary E. Rodman's Voices of Promise practice with their music teacher, Mr. Green.
Student-led projects start as early as pre-K! These projects help students retain the information they're learning and give them self-confidence and public speaking skills. Mrs. Rouse's pre-K class from Sandtown-Winchester presented their first take-home projects.
Eighth-grade students at Patterson Park learned about the local ecosystem at Fort McHenry while developing new kayaking skills!
Ms. Witt, science teacher at Dickey Hill, brought middle school students to the SciTech Student Learning Labs in the Inner Harbor. They worked in an oyster lab, examining oyster shells and their internal structures using lab equipment.
The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company opened its doors to students for its production of Macbeth, and the Design School was among the first to watch the theater's production. We love the experiential learning that live theater brings to our students!
Students in Ms. Snyderman's kindergarten class at Commodore John Rodgers are working on Letter Naming Fluency. As Ms. Synderman says, "Letter Naming Fluency is important because it paves the way for future reading skills and serves as an early indicator of a child's potential reading success, enabling timely interventions for those who may need extra support."
Mr. Virgilio Alcayde's class from Vivien T. Thomas participated in the stream study as part of Bio Unit 1: The Baltimore Watersheds. They visited City Schools' Great Kids Farm and explored the stream. Educators from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation helped lead the group.
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