Creative Minds
With 83,000-plus great kids, City Schools teems with creative energy and output. Creative Minds, a part of Great Kids Up Close, highlights the creative output of City Schools’ students. Here you can sample the creative thinking at work. We encourage you to bookmark this page and check it regularly for updates. Students and teachers, we invite your submissions and hold you to just one rule: be creative.
 Concentric Circles
Art teacher Leah Brown (Booker T. Washington Middle School) pulls from Russian-born Vasily Kandinsky and American Andy Warhol to teach students about color theory, math and composition. Read more ...
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 Pinch Pot Animals and Coil Mugs
With a brand new, state-of-the-art kiln, students at Booker T. Washington Middle School learn the art—and science—of ceramics. Check out some recent creations. Read more ...
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 Green School Students Explore through Art
Young students learn through exploration and experimentation. That’s why Alana McFall, the art teacher at the Green School, uses a “process-based” approach to teaching and learning in kindergarten and 1st grade. “This differs from a ‘product-based’ approach,” McFall explains, “in which students focus on the end product.” Here, students spend the year experimenting with different media—paint, collage, sculpting and drawing—and aren't told what to produce. Read more ...
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Rani Jackson's "Today"
"I wrote this poem because I wanted to talk about the violence in Baltimore City and how people are uninformed about issues that affect Baltimore," says Rani Jackson, a senior at Edmondson-Westside High School and a semi-finalist in the school's Poetry Out Loud organization. Read more ...
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