The students at Bronx Early College Academy prepared for four months before their school store, BECA 2 GO, became a reality. Prior to this experience, they didn’t realize all the preparation that goes into starting a business. Before selling their first item, they had to: brainstorm names for the store, devise an advertising strategy, survey [...]

Creative Connections is proud to announce that we have been selected as an approved service provider of the Expanded Success Initiative, a key educational component of the New York City Young Men’s Initiative. ESI sets a higher bar for the long-term educational outcomes of New York’s Black and Latino male students, namely by ensuring they [...]

Last year, we had the pleasure of beginning a partnership with Principal Rick Lizardi and his staff at the Bronx High School of Business. We completed a ten-part workshop series, collaborating with the staff on implementing our Career Connections program in their classrooms. Thank you, Principal Lizardi, for giving Creative Connections the opportunity to help [...]

Post two in a five-part series exploring the question: “What does it mean to be college-ready?” and “How do we help our students become college and career-ready?” Rather than presenting a lot of rubrics defining college readiness, let’s look at a real-world example of what happens: Our student walks into her first college class and [...]

The Fashion Entrepreneurship Club from Columbus High School, led by Success Coach Crystyn Wright, took an educational and relaxing field trip to the Health and Wellness Fair last week, hosted by the Hibiscus Day Spa Students met and spoke with entrepreneurs who have created and started their own businesses in the health and wellness field. [...]

A Look at New York State Department of Education College-Readiness Statistics In NYC, there’s a very interesting contradiction going on between high school kids passing their regents exams and graduating from High School, yet still not being able to cut it in college. Why are so many NYC public High School graduates not college-ready? Let’s [...]

I first created and implemented an after school program in 1998. It was the Clinton years and the goal for after school was to provide a safe environment for students between the hours of 3pm and 6pm. Next came the Bush years and No Child Left Behind: more after school programs, more variety of activities [...]