12th Annual “Are You Smarter Than a BCP Student” a Great Success!
On a perfect spring evening on the Baltimore waterfront, on May 13, 2024, Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) celebrated its 12th “Are You Smarter Than a BCP Student?” annual gala. Held at the Baltimore Museum of Industry, the event welcomed over 200 attendees, which included sponsors, friends, BCP board members and many BCP administrators, faculty, and […]
City Springs Playwright is 2024 Young Playwrights Festival Winner
On May 18, 2024, at Baltimore Center Stage, Chaise Holland’s play, The Ending of My Story, had its world premiere at the 39th Annual Young Playwrights Festival. Chaise, an 8th grader at City Springs Elementary / Middle School, was one of six young, talented playwrights chosen from more than 200 Festival submissions across Baltimore City […]
What’s Happening in BCP Schools? Are You Smarter Event Photos
BCP’s annual gala, “Are You Smarter Than a BCP Student?” was a great success! Check out all the photos from May 13, 2024. PHOTO GALLERY
Pimlico Artists Winners in 2024 Baltimore Links Poster Contest
Congratulations to the ten young artists from Pimlico Elementary / Middle School, a neighborhood conversion charter public school with Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP), for their poster designs for the 2024 Poster Art Contest, sponsored by the Baltimore Chapter of the Links. The Links, Incorporated, an international nonprofit with chapters across the U.S. and globe, was […]
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 […]
BCP’s Peer Mediator Program Year in Review
The new Peer Mediator Program, which debuted in January 2023 at City Springs Elementary / Middle School, now extends to five of the six Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) schools. Created by Todd Wade, City Springs’ Director of Restorative Practices and of the Peer Mediation Program, the intentional program has 80 trained student mediators from 5th […]
City Springs Collaborates on New East Baltimore Project
On April 24, 2024, five City Springs Elementary / Middle School sixth grade students spent the day behind-the-scenes at Johns Hopkins Hospital, touring non-clinical departments including engineering, repair, command center, and technology. The teacher-selected participants spoke with Theodore DeWeese, dean and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine, and five other department heads. Called the East Baltimore […]
Meet the BCP Board Member: Heather Mitchell
Attorney Heather Mitchell first learned about Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) in 2005 as a young associate at Venale, LLP. Twenty years later, she is a seasoned BCP Board member and passionate advocate for BCP’s work with Baltimore City Public Schools to improve Baltimore’s public education and communities served by BCP’s neighborhood charter schools. How did […]
Perkins Square Ribbon-Cutting with City Springs
April 27, 2024 marked the start of a new era for the former Perkins Homes, one of Baltimore’s public housing projects, now called Perkins Square, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The long-awaited newly renovated Perkins Square–a project to create 103 new apartments and townhomes from the razed Perkins Homes–includes new streets and infrastructure in the East […]
Wolfe Street Academy’s New Classroom Libraries for Equity
Equity work has long been central to Wolfe Street Academy’s (WSA) mission and curriculum. The school has a diverse student community of 250 Pre-Kindergarten through 5th graders. More than 80 percent of WSA students are Latino, 15 percent are African American, and five percent identify as other racial backgrounds. The school’s equity work first focused […]