Tuesday: BMore Responsible

SEL Warm Up: Code Word RESPECT!

Create a classroom code for your Google Classroom. How do you want to be treated in your new online classroom? List ways everyone can treat each other with kindness in our new online space?

For BMore Responsible Day, we'll reflect on ways we can be active citizens through our choices and our words. We will highlight lessons that emphasize both social justice and green, sustainable living.

Today's Arts Videostream:

Bucket Drum Compilation-

Francie Jeffreys and Sherrie Jeffreys

Both Francie Jeffreys of Sandtown-Winchester Achievement Academy and Sherrie Jeffreys of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. E/M use buckets in different ways to orchestrate complex rhythm routines for their scholars. Watch their dynamic performances below:

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Francie Jeffreys

Sandtown-Winchester Achievement Academy

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Sherie Jeffreys

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary/Middle

The VPA Family that Plays Together...

Presenting the Baltimore City Public Schools Teacher Jazz Band....

October 2019 City Schools hosted the Council for Great City Schools where we featured a number of student ensembles, an All City Marching Band, and for the first time our Teacher Jazz Band.

A part of our responsibility as musicians is to continue to practice to hone our music skills. Take a listen to this clip of them jamming! For more information about the Teacher Jazz Band contact cwilliams07@bcps.k12.md.us

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Gallery:

Roland Park E/M: Identity for Arts Every Day's 10x10 Show

During last year's 10 x 10 Show for Arts Every Day, Laura Lynn Emberson's class made responses to the prompt of what Identity meant to them. Students examined what identity meant to them in a series of classroom discussions that culminated in their visual responses. Scroll through the gallery to see how students conceptualized topics of gender, racial, spiritual, existential and class identity.

Social Media Challenges:

World Health Organization and United Nations Call for Creatives for Social Media Design

The World Health Organization and the United Nations recently posted a historic call for creatives to help create social media designs to inform the public about coronavirus. Think of a poster, song, video, photo, animation, or dance you could create to spread awareness of preventive methods.

CHARM: Voices of Baltimore Youth Literary Magazine Call for Submissions, "This Is Not a Snow Day"


Today's Arts After Dinner Videostream featuring Ms. Liz Miller and Mr. Matthew McCoy from Glenmount Elementary Middle School

Principal Ben Mosley

Learn more how arts educator Liz Miller and music educator Matt McCoy support arts citizenship and self-actualization in their classrooms.


Educator "Toots"

Matt Adelberg

Baltimore City Public Schools VPA prides itself on its legacy of social justice arts learning. We would like to spotlight Polytechnic Institute's Fine Arts Department Chair Matt Adelberg for his recent conference presentation at the Art and Education for Social Justice Symposium in February 2020.