News and Press
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...
What’s Happening in Our Schools: Back-to-School Excitement
The 2025–26 school year is officially underway for Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) schools! City Springs Elementary/Middle School was the first to kick off the year on August 18, welcoming students back with smiles, hugs, and plenty of first-day jitters and...
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...
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...
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...
Strong Schools = Strong Neighborhoods: Frederick Elementary School
Frederick Elementary School (FES) has been a cornerstone of education in West Baltimore since 1983, when it was originally built as a traditional public elementary school. Over the years, FES faced various challenges, including aging infrastructure, fluctuating...
BCP Launches Attendance Initiative to Tackle Chronic Absenteeism
The Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) is excited to launch a new initiative for the 2025–2026 school year focused on reducing chronic absenteeism. With generous support from the Abell Foundation and the Richman Foundation, this effort aims to decrease chronic...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Wolfe Street Academy Dedicates New Mural Celebrating Cultural Diversity and Heritage
Wolfe Street Academy (WSA), a Baltimore Curriculum Project charter school, held a dedication ceremony for its new mural titled Memoria y Esperanza (Memory and Hope) on July 15, 2025. The event, held on the WSA playground, brought together students, families, community...
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.