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Stories

Great Kids Up Close is interested in your stories. We welcome students, teachers, principals, parents and caregivers, partners and members of the larger Baltimore community to share stories about our students and schools—about events happening in schools, everyday learning in the classroom, awards won by students and educators, partnerships between schools and community organizations and businesses, students participating in events and competitions, and just about anything and everything else going on in City Schools. To share, please email your story to upclose@bcps.k12.md.us. Be sure to include a title, the author’s name and contact information. And please feel free to attach photos (reduced) to accompany your story.   

No time to write a story but still want to share your idea? Contact the Office of Communications at upclose@bcps.k12.md.us.

Teachers, we want to showcase your students’ work. Great Kids Up Close can feature the work of an entire class, groups of students or individual students. Contact us to discuss possibilities.

Creative Minds

With 83,000-plus great kids, City Schools teems with creative energy and output. Students sing, dance, play instruments and perform; they take photographs, make films, design video games and logos; they write poetry, short stories, personal narratives and blogs; they sculpt, sketch, design web sites and fashions. These activities call upon students to take what they know (or learn) about the world, to put it all together and to create.

Creative Minds, a part of Great Kids Up Close, highlights the creative output of City Schools’ students. It invites students of all ages to submit samples of their creative thinking—and doing. Please email your creative work (or reduced photos of your creative work) to upclose@bcps.k12.md.us. Be sure to include a title, the author’s name, contact information and a description of your art (what it is, how you made it and what inspired you). If you have questions or would like to submit audio, video or another kind of media, please contact the Office of Communications at upclose@bcps.k12.md.us.  

Teachers, please feel free to submit samples of your students’ work. Creative Minds can feature the work of entire classes, groups of students or individual students. Contact us to discuss possibilities.

Submission Tips / Stories

• We publish a wide range of stories written in a variety of styles, and we are always eager to hear from you, even to discuss an idea. Our editorial team will work with you to create the best possible publication.
• Use your best judgment to come up with an appropriate word length. Note that we run feature stories, news flashes and student opportunities. Sometimes stories consist mostly of text and a few photos; other times they use slideshows, photo-galleries, video or audio. Select the format you feel most comfortable with that best communicates your story.
• Enter a title and the author’s name in the submission form. Then either copy and paste your story’s text directly to the form or upload a file from your computer.
• Enter a summary of your story. Provide any information we need to know, such as the context of a classroom project or the inspiration for a personal narrative.
• Attach images in the space provided. We strongly encourage you to submit photos. If you have audio, video or another media, please contact us.
• If you want to link to a web site, do so in the body of the text.
• Include a way for us to contact you (e-mail address and/or phone number) at the end of the body of the text.
• Still have questions? Not sure if your story fits? Contact us.

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