News and Press
BCP Helps with Public Sculpture Restoration Near City Springs
David Hess, award-winning Baltimore sculptor and furniture maker, has 32 public art sculptures dotted across Maryland, most of them in the Baltimore region. In 2006, Mr. Hess installed Baltimore Passage in Albemarle Square, just a few blocks from City Springs...
BCP and National Bullying Prevention Month
October is National Bullying Prevention Month, an effort to bring awareness to school communities about the effects of bullying and how to prevent it. With Restorative Practices at the center of each of the six Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) neighborhood...
BCP Grads Going Places: Cindy Ibarra, Hampstead Hill Alumna
Part of the first Leaders Go Places (LGP) program at Hampstead Hill Academy (HHA) thirteen years ago, Cindy Ibarra took those early leadership development lessons to heart. LGP is an HHA-created program that combines incentives for academic, leadership, and...
BCP Principals Featured in Baltimore Banner
Two Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) Principals are featured in the Baltimore Banner article, “Baltimore’s education dynasty gathers around a Roland Park dinner table” (October 16, 2025). The article by education reporter Liz Bowie tells the story of Matt Hornbeck,...
Pimlico Student Leaders Receive Governor’s Citation
The Community Helpers Club at Pimlico Elementary / Middle School (PEMS) loves making a difference. This group of middle school leaders, led by Theresa Braxton, PEMS’ Community School Coordinator through the school’s lead agency, Park Heights Renaissance, and Shantel...
City Springs and Hampstead Hill Students View Restorative Practices Documentary
The City Springs Elementary / Middle School (CS) 8th grade joined their peers at Hampstead Hill Academy (HHA) on October 3, 2025, for an HHA Leaders Go Places (LGP) meeting in HHA’s Newstead Gym to view the new short documentary, “Restorative Practices Make Strong...
Innovative Attendance Incentives
Every student in school, every day. That’s the goal across the network of Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) neighborhood conversion charter schools. For our 30th year, BCP has kicked off an ambitious goal for a critical challenge facing public schools across the...
BCP Premieres New Documentary on Restorative Practices
September 29, 2025, in Hampstead Hill Academy’s Newstead Gym, Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) kicked off its 30th year celebration with another “first”—its first-ever film premiere. Restorative Practices Make Strong Schools, the short documentary created by Voices...
Q&A With Marc Lester, Pimlico’s Restorative Practices Director
Restorative Practices is the cornerstone of each neighborhood conversion charter school in the Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) network of six Baltimore schools. The focus on and devotion to daily practices of using positive, community-building interactions for...
Follow BCP for 30 Voices for 30 Years
This school year, Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) is proud to celebrate its 30th Anniversary. For three decades, BCP has been deeply committed to empowering students, supporting families, and strengthening neighborhoods through high-quality, community-centered...
BCP Grads Going Places: Henry Burger, Hampstead Hill Alumnus
We continue our regular look at graduates of Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) schools and the impact of their BCP education. This month, we talked with Henry Burger, a sophomore at Calvert Hall College, a Catholic, all-boys’ high school, about how his years in...
Volunteer Days of Service – Make a Difference in Our Schools!
To celebrate our 30th anniversary, the Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) is inviting parents, neighbors, community members, and friends to roll up their sleeves and join us for our first-ever Volunteer Days of Service at our six schools across Baltimore. These...
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.