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Back-to-School Events Launch 30th BCP Year

Back-to-School Events Launch 30th BCP Year

The Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) schools kicked off the 2025–2026 school year with a series of joyful back-to-school celebrations this August. These events gave families the chance to meet teachers, explore classrooms, gather resources, and start the year with...

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BCP Welcomes Teachers with Comprehensive Training

BCP Welcomes Teachers with Comprehensive Training

By: Maura Farrall, Lead Academic Coach  As a new school year begins, the Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) once again welcomed dozens of new and returning BCP teachers with a week of intensive professional development designed to prepare them for success in the...

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Meet Mr. Trumino, City Springs’ Community School Coordinator

Meet Mr. Trumino, City Springs’ Community School Coordinator

At Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) charter schools, the role of Community School Coordinator is essential. BCP embraces the community school model, which means that providing wrap-around services for its students and families is as important as what happens in the...

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Community at the Center: Wolfe Street and Govans Elementary

Community at the Center: Wolfe Street and Govans Elementary

At Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP), we believe that schools are more than places to learn—they are community anchors. This has been foundational for BCP for three decades.  Since 1996, we have focused on offering the best instructional method we knew – Direct...

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BCP Receives First-ever NIFDI Silver Star School Award

BCP Receives First-ever NIFDI Silver Star School Award

Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) is the very proud recipient of the inaugural Silver Star School Award, presented by The National Institute for Direct Instruction (NIFDI). The award, presented at the 51st National Direct Instruction conference on July 24, 2025, in...

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BCP at the NWEA

BCP at the NWEA

Each June, educators and administrators from the Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) attend the annual NWEA Fusion conference. The nonprofit NWEA, or the Northwest Evaluation Association, develops and oversees the annual assessments BCP uses to measure and guide its...

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H.E.R. Mentoring Creates New Pimlico Mural

H.E.R. Mentoring Creates New Pimlico Mural

The female artists in Pimlico Elementary / Middle School’s school-year Helping Embrace Radiance (H.E.R.) Mentoring Program have, once again, added to the vibrancy of their school and school culture with a new mural. Designed by 10- 12 girls in middle school in...

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Strong Schools = Strong Neighborhoods: Wolfe Street Academy

Strong Schools = Strong Neighborhoods: Wolfe Street Academy

Located in Baltimore's Upper Fells Point neighborhood, Wolfe Street Academy (WSA) has played a transformational role in driving both economic growth and a strengthened sense of community since WSA’s pioneering adoption of the Community School Strategy in 2006. One of...

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BCP In the News

Check out recent media mentions of the Baltimore Curriculum Project.

WMARABC2

Mayor Brandon Scott made a surprise visit to Pimlico Elementary / Middle School on Halloween to hand out candy and promote safe trick-or-treating.

Today Show

NBC’s The Today Show followed SNL star Ego Nwodim over her August 2024 visits to all six BCP schools to teach improv skills to educators and to City Springs’ student peer mediators. Her unique program focuses on listening and life skills, inspired by improv techniques.

Baltimore Magazine

Ego Nwodim, SNL star and Baltimore native, is partnering with BCP to teach educators and students improv skills to use as problem-solving and life skills. Baltimore Magazine featured her work with BCP in its annual GameChangers issue.

WMAR-2 NEWS

Matt Hornbeck, Principal of Hampstead Hill Academy, was interviewed about the negative impact of social media on teenagers and HHA’s strategies to address this important issue.

BALTIMORE BUSINESS JOURNAL

Hampstead Hill Academy broke ground on April 18, 2024 for an exciting expansion and renovation project to benefit the school and the Southeast Baltimore community.

WJZ

During the recent solar eclipse, Wolfe Street Academy was the site of WJZ-TV’s continuing coverage of the event, with interviews by WSA young astronomers.
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