Making Children’s Mental Health a Classroom Priority: A BCP Teacher’s Story
May is Children’s Mental Health Month. We asked Kat Locke-Jones,7th grade English Language Arts teacher at Hampstead Hill Academy, part of the Baltimore Curriculum Project’s (BCP) network of neighborhood conversion charter schools, to share her story as a mental health advocate in her classroom and across the Mid-Atlantic. In 2018, following the suicide of her younger brother Sean, her […]
Kat Locke-Jones Named 2024 Baltimore City Schools Teacher of the Year
Kat Locke-Jones, 7th Grade ELA and Social Studies teacher at Hampstead Hill Academy, for being named the 2024 Baltimore City Public Schools Teacher of the Year! Ms. Locke-Jones, who was a finalist for this prestigious award in 2023, was surprised on Wednesday, May 8th at school by Dr. Sonja Santelises, CEO of Baltimore City Public […]