By: BHS News Staff
January 10, 2023
In the Brooklyn City School District, both the high school and the lower school love to find new ways to keep students involved and engaged in school.
Mr. Chris Kaspar, the high school art teacher, teaches the murals class with creativity and new ideas. It brings people together and brings art to life in the Brooklyn schools.
The murals class originated from a class that Mr. Kaspar had to take online, years prior. He later told students about it, and with positive feedback, he started to teach the class here.
The students were tested on their skill level to see what murals they could paint around the school. More advanced students did and are still doing bigger murals and being more detailed in larger areas.
Students also make posters and auction them off to the lower school to jazz up their building, too.
The current class is now trying to expand their art outside of the school and bring it to the community. Their goal is to make Brooklyn full of art.
Outside of the murals class and wall decorations, there is also a new addition to the Brooklyn School: A vending machine filled with books.
The Brooklyn School received a grant for the book vending machine, and the books include K-7 interest levels.
The book vending machine receives tokens, which students get from their teachers. Each grade level team decides how the students will earn the potential tokens. Ironically, behavior is not a factor in how the students earn the tokens.
Mrs. Karen Valenza, a district instructional coach, talked about the new book vending machine.
“One of my main goals at the Brooklyn School is to increase student excitement for reading, and this vending machine will assist in this goal,” she said.
This is an exciting, new opportunity for students to earn reading prizes for literacy and reading activities. The Brooklyn School wants the book vending machine to encourage the current students, as well as future students, to get excited about reading.
Student involvement and participation in school activities, inside and outside of school, is something that is important. The BCSD is a place for students to learn and have fun doing so.
Have a great week, Brooklyn.
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