It seems like every day there’s a new story about teens and online scandal – whether it’s sexting, cyber-bullying, or inappropriate photos on facebook. Parents and educators are asking “how do we help kids understand that what they put online today lives forever”? Join Creative Connections for Social Media Saturday You’re #trending: Understanding Your Social [...]

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 [...]

When Success Coach Nedra McClyde created the after school Theater club at MS 256, she anticipated that her students’ enthusiasm would be learning about acting, writing, and playwriting. One day she decided to mix it up and taught a lesson focused on on career planning: the students created career maps, practiced interviewing skills, and played [...]

Creative Connections is proud to work with Success Coach, Rachel I. Johnson. An emerging writer-director looking to share her work and form positive alliances with other filmmakers, Rachel led a Cinema For Us! club at MS 256 last year and is currently leading a Movie/Entrepreneurship Club at Mott Hall. Her 2011 NYU thesis short film, [...]

Winthrop Intermediate School is a Marketing and Legal Studies focused school. The group, whose business “Snack Attack” has been thriving selling to other after school clubs, has a steady flow of income. Snack Attack is constantly assessing their audience, and has made a huge effort to sell healthier options like Fiber Bars and 100% fruit [...]