How Restorative Practices Changes School Communities
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 skills that actor, comic, producer, and writer Ego Nwodim of “Saturday Night Live” fame learned during her […]
Why School Attendance Matters
We know we can teach every child. However, we cannot teach a child who does not come to school. Yet, nationally and in Maryland, student attendance continues to be a challenge for schools, “a hidden educational crisis,” so dubbed by the U.S. Department of Education. At the Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP), school attendance is one […]
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 was canceled because of the pandemic); she and father Mike Palmer started a basketball club; acted in every HHA production; props manager in 7th grade Sister Fiona […]