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Hispanic Heritage Month celebrates the history, cultures, contributions, and influence of Latino and Hispanic Americans.

Ms. Russell's third grade students at Woodhome learned all about Frida Kahlo and her contributions to art and culture. Kahlo, a Mexican artist, is most well known for her self-portraits, attention to Mexican and indigenous culture, and depictions of the female experience.

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On September 20, the Board celebrated the retirement of Delegate Maggie McIntosh, Delegate Talmadge Branch, and Delegate Curt Anderson. Board Chair Richardson and Vice Chair McFadden made remarks at the event acknowledging the delegates' efforts for the betterment of Baltimore and City Schools. The Speaker of the House and various legislative leaders throughout the City were also present for the festivities.

Curtis Bay has a brand new mural in their entryway! The school worked with Baltimore artist Jay Wolf Schlossberg-Cohen to hold workshops with students who created collages based on the school's theme "Kind Words and Kind Actions." Using these pieces of artwork, Mr. Jay combined them to create a parachute cloth canvas that the students helped paint. Big thanks to the staff at Curtis Bay, our facilities team, and community volunteers who helped repair and install this beautiful, welcoming entryway!

Second grade students at Waverly are learning all about the four seasons. Ms. Whitfield set up stations with activities for each text they will be exploring. Students were excited to learn about “A Season of Change.”

Fourth- and fifth-grade Russian immersion students from Baltimore International Academy came up with goals for their school year and then created beautiful art pieces to illustrate them!

Charles Carroll Barrister held their first English class for families this week. These eight-week long classes meet twice a week and are held in partnership with Clay Pots. 

Baltimore School for the Arts juniors Zion Gyenyame and Ian Taylor spent time with actor Geoffrey Owens at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum. Mr. Owens performed 25 Shakespearean monologues, with Zion introducing the pieces and Ian shadowing. They also had the opportunity to rehearse with him on Friday, gaining some great real world experience. 

Members from the Urban School Food Alliance visited Great Kids Farm and joined a cooking class, harvested crops, planted seedlings, and met chickens, goats, and turkey residents.

Baltimore Design School senior architecture students took over Principal Brozene's parking space to participate in Park(ing) Day, an international day for artists to convert urban space reserved for cars into usable public green space.

This year's design was created by senior Wesley Alexander and gave students a place to sit and have breakfast while waiting for school to open. Big thanks to the Morgan State University undergraduate architecture students and MICA social design graduate students who helped with the project.

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