39th Annual BPS MLK Celebration
In our first BPS Arts blog post, we are featuring our 39th Annual MLK Celebration. Across the district, thousands of students were involved in honoring MLK with his words, “ Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.” With love and light guiding practitioners, students designed our first-ever virtual MLK Celebration. Framing it as Q&A, practitioners shed some “light” on how they created these displays of “ love.” Julie White, Trotter School Theatre Teacher Why did you and/or students choose what you submitted? We brainstormed a theme and so many students thought the same thing, “How can we show Kindness during a time in the world that lacks it.” We decided to take an excerpt from a play we will present in late March called "Make A Difference". It fit perfectly. Describe the learning process of the work you submitted? As a student body each week students watch, write and reflect on yo...