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Jul 30 2013 by adminccs

(News) Before and After Care

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Creative City Public Charter School is excited to announce its new partnership with Smart Steps. As a new licensed childcare center, Smart Steps @ Creative City will offer a variety of enrichment activities each week. Program components include dance aerobics, African dance & drumming, martial arts, sign language instruction, S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math), arts & crafts and more. Additionally, Smart Steps serves AM snack, lunch, PM snack and dinner to its students at no additional cost to families.

Founded in 2003, Smart Step’ mission is to build relationships with families, educators and communities in order to foster an environment that breeds academic achievement, cultural enrichment and self-esteem development in children. Its comprehensive programs include childcare, winter, spring & summer camps, school closing care, transportation options and more. All programs include monthly trips and annual special youth events. Mini-carnivals, moon bounce parties, Kiddie Prom, sweetheart dances, harvest festivals and Kwanzaa programs at Smart Steps make memories that last a lifetime. To learn more, including cost information, visit the Creative City FAQ page or visit Smart Steps online at: www.smartstepschildrenscenters.com.


Jul 30 2013 by adminccs

Announcing Creative City’s Location!

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We are absolutely thrilled to announce Creative City Public Charter School’s official location: 2810 Shirley Avenue in Southern Park Heights, near Druid Hill Park. The facility, and the Park Heights neighborhood, will provide such an ideal environment for carrying out Creative City’s unique mission.

Creative City will be Baltimore’s first school dedicated to Place-Based Education: using Baltimore’s natural and built environment, history and culture to teach through group projects. This site is located in a fantastic green space, with fields on either side of the adjacent Towanda Rec Center, and an urban garden that can serve as the beginnings of Creative City Farm. We are within walking distance of Baltimore’s 750-acre, 150-year-old Druid Hill Park, so we will be able to do a lot of dynamic field work (without breaking the bank on transportation costs).

Park Heights is rich in history, so we won’t have to travel farther than Park Circle to teach our children about great achievements in the history of African American business, or about several waves of American immigration that have passed through Park Heights over the decades. As a Community School, Creative City will strive to create a mix of resources and services for the whole family, working in partnership with community groups, building on community assets, and filling gaps that students’ families are experiencing.

Park Heights is a community rich in community groups and nonprofits that we can reach out to for providing adult education or services on school grounds that every Creative City family can benefit from. We have been working to build partnerships with families in Park Heights and Park Heights Renaissance Development Corporation for the past several months, and are excited to get started with joint work. Our friends at Park Heights Renaissance also operate the Towanda Rec Center, and have let us know that we can have daytime access to the facility, which greatly expands the number of innovative activities teachers can incorporate into their projects. The facility has the exact number of classrooms we will need at full capacity. More excitingly, there is a large multipurpose space that is perfect for our arts integration work, and could be flexibly configured for theatre, visual arts, dance, and music. This was a must, due to our dedication to teaching through the arts. Several extra offices will allow for us to comfortably offer the high level of individualized special education services that we hope to create.

Creative City offers our enthusiastic thanks to those who have made this vision a reality, including the Baltimore City Department of General Services, the Baltimore City Office of Real Estate, Councilwoman Sharon Middleton, Julius Colon and Cheo Hurley at Park Heights Renaissance, the Office of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake, and Walter Skayhan and Associates.


Jul 30 2013 by adminccs

SUBMIT SUGGESTIONS

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As a parent of a Creative City Public Charter School student, do you have specific concerns or suggestions you’d like to share with the CCPCS Principal and Executive Director? Please use the form below to submit them:

 

 


Jul 30 2013 by adminccs

DONATE

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You can help support Creative City Public Charter School’s mission!




Your tax-deductible contribution to Creative City Public Charter School supports an innovative educational model that connects students to Baltimore City and to nature through art, hands-on learning, and participation in a diverse & cooperative school community.

We are a young school and still growing. The amount of funding we receive from the school district per student is supplemented by private fundraising to allow our unique model to come to life. Your support makes a difference today to provide field trips, artists-in-residence, and other programs and opportunities.

Gifts of any size make a difference. For instance:

$250 rents a school bus for a field trip
$100 supports a visiting artist in delivering one arts-integrated classroom lesson
$75 buys a document camera for a classroom
$50 provides our Culinary Lab with raw ingredients for one month
$25 buys a set of 6 independent reading books
$10 replenishes dry erase markers for one classroom

 

A Creative City cook book by Chef Jennifer Crisp and Abby Bennett

A Creative City cook book by Chef Jennifer Crisp and Abby Bennett

*** Buy your copy of “The Creative Palate” today!***


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To purchase our cook book, produced with our students by our own Chef Jennifer Crisp and community artist Abby Bennett, click the “Buy Now” button above on this page.  Books can be picked up in person for a donation $15 or shipped to you for a donation of $19 (includes $4 shipping & handling cost). Questions? Call 443-642-3602 or email MCanino@bcps.k12.md.us. All proceeds support ongoing Creative City programs.

Are you supporting Creative City while you shop?  Click on the links below for more information!

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Jul 30 2013 by Aimee Pohl

BEFORE & AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES

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BEFORE & AFTER SCHOOL CARE

We are excited to announce a continued partnership with United Education Corp (UEC) for fee-based Before & Aftercare onsite at Creative City beginning in Fall 2015.  Before care from 7-8a, and aftercare until 6:30pm will be offered, with daily programming in Art and Sports.  They are a seasoned provider with 14 years of experience at the nearby Mt. Washington School, and have an excellent partnership with our friends at City Neighbors.  More information including rates here.

CLUBS

Our options for after-school clubs are growing.  We currently offer Girl Scouts and our Peace Club.  Contact Latrice Brown at 443-642-3600 or LLBrown01@bcps.k12.md.us for more information.  Have an idea for a new club?  Let us know!

 


Jul 30 2013 by adminccs

CLASS MESSENGER

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class messenger

Creative City has begun to use Class Messenger as a way to distribute information and share news quickly and easily with school families.  Class messenger is web-based and is also an app for smart phones; families can choose to receive information via email, text message, push notification, or by accessing it on the web.  It can be used on your mobile device, or your computer, or both!  Sign-up for FREE at www.ClassMessenger.com OR download the free app. Creative City’s Class Code is  H N Q 4 5 T