News and Press
What’s Happening at BCP Schools? PTO & Back to School Night
The beginning of the school year is an important time to build relationships not only with students but also with their families. Schools do this in many different ways including hosting Back to...
Baltimore Spoken Word Artist Black Chakra Performs at City Springs
As part of the Social Justice curriculum at City Springs Elementary / Middle School, a unique Honors program created by Wyatt Oroke, City Springs teacher, the 8th graders enjoyed a powerful...
BCP Board Updates
The Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) board met on September 7, 2023 for its first meeting of the 2023-24 school year at BCP’s Frederick Elementary School (FES). The meeting’s guest presenter was...
Community School Coordinator Month: Meet Sandi McFadden, Govans Elementary School
September celebrates Community School Coordinators, the professionals at community schools who lead and implement each school’s unique wraparound services for the students and their families and the...
BCP Math Work Group Pilots New Curricula
Last spring, BCP created a math workgroup comprising math educators and school leaders from across the BCP network of schools. Recognizing that the six BCP neighborhood charter schools used various...
SNL Cast Member / Actor Ego Nwodim Launches Life Skills Improv Program at City Springs Elementary / Middle School
You can learn a lot from improvisational theater. How to really listen to your partner. How to be receptive to new ideas. How to focus and work as a group to find a solution. These are the life...
BCP Grads Going Places: Mairead Palmer, Hampstead Hill Academy
HAMPSTEAD HILL ACADEMY, Class of 2020 Attended K-8th Grade Activities: Participated in “a million clubs,” including Inaugural Green Team member, BeMore Green, played baseball (excl. 8th grade, which...
Back to School With BCP
August at Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) is exciting as our network of six neighborhood conversion charter schools get ready for the 2023-24 school year. With a focus on supporting all students,...
What’s Happening at BCP Schools: A new school year begins
Happy students, excited teachers, and grateful parents started the 2023-24 school year with smiles, handshakes, and high fives at each of our Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) schools. Everyone is...
Summer Facility Improvements
Place matters. Research over the past century has consistently found that school facilities impact teaching and learning in profound ways. Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) understands the...
Meet the BCP Board: Anne Perkins
Anne Perkins, a founding board member of the Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) was invited by founding board chair George Hess to join the Board in 1996 when BCP began. She knew that serving BCP...
BCP Grads Going Places: Sherie Turnage
City Springs Elementary / Middle School, Pre-K through 8th, 2013 Class President, 8th Grade Commencement Speaker, June 2022 (see speech below) High School: Institute of Notre Dame, 2017 College:...
BCP In the News
Check out recent media mentions of the Baltimore Curriculum Project.
WBAL-TV
SNL Cast Member Ego Nwodim and her brother Dr. Emeka Nwodim visited City Springs Elementary / Middle School to launch a series of life-skills-building workshops using improv for City Springs’ middle school Peer Mediators.
BALTIMORE BANNER ARTICLE
Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Banner reporter, writes about Hampstead Hill Academy’s introduction of Yondr phone bags to limit student smartphone use during the school day to enhance academic engagement and increase personal connections and conversations with one another.
CBS NEWS BALTIMORE
Pimlico middle school students learned life-saving Stop-the-Bleed skills as part of the school’s unique partnership with Sinai Hospital, the Pimlico/Sinai Middle Grades Health Sciences Program
UNION TALK PODCAST
Wolfe Street Academy’s Mark Gaither, Principal, and educator Katrina Kickbush, discuss how community schools deliver on the promise of public education with American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten.
WJZ-TV
Discover Pimlico Elementary / Middle School’s unique partnership with Sinai Hospital to give Pimlico’s middle school students a firsthand look at healthcare careers.
WYPR
BCP’s Leading Minds: Challenging Conversations in Public Education symposium on January 23, 2023 discuss violence prevention and the role of the school.
MARYLAND MATTERS
Wolfe Street Academy and Principal Mark Gaither are featured in this story about state school funding for the community school model.
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