CTY expands efforts to connect with Baltimore's brightest students
The Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth is broadening its efforts to identify Baltimore City students with advanced learning abilities and connect these bright students and their teachers with quality gifted resources and programs.
A growing partnership with Baltimore City Public Schools is bringing CTY to students in 10 city schools this school year through the Baltimore Emerging Scholars Program. New initiatives are also under way to help families and teachers provide their academically advanced students with the extra challenge and support they need.
The partnership is helping CTY reach families that might not have otherwise heard about the organization and identify students for its summer, online, and family programs through nontraditional means. And it's helping support the school system's brightest students at no cost to the school system or its families, said Dennis Jutras, coordinator for the City Schools' Gifted and Advanced Learning program.