Frederick’s Living Wax Museum
On February 27, Frederick Elementary School (FES) continued its schoolwide Black History Month celebration by showcasing Black history and achievement through the students’ Living Wax projects. Students in PreK-5th spent the month researching historical and modern Black leaders and created presentations to share the lives and legacy of their chosen figures. While the exact project […]
BCP Board Meeting Recap: Key Updates and School Progress
The Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) Board of Directors met on March 6, 2025, at Frederick Elementary School (FES) to discuss updates on finances, school performance, and future initiatives. FES Principal Tetra Jackson reported improved student attendance at Frederick Elementary, thanks to new incentives like students with good attendance earning “bucks” that can be used at […]
Strong Schools as Catalysts for Neighborhood Renewal: Pimlico Elementary / Middle School
Strong schools are key to revitalizing communities, serving as anchors that foster local engagement and attract families and businesses. Pimlico Elementary / Middle School (PEMS), in collaboration with Baltimore’s historic Park Heights community, is playing a central role in transforming this once-overlooked neighborhood into a thriving hub. Baltimore City’s Plan for Park Heights In 2006, […]
HHA Historians Advance to State National History Day Competition
Several 8th grade historians at Hampstead Hill Academy (HHA) advanced to the state-level competition of the National History Day (NHD) competition after competing at the districtwide level on Saturday, March 1, 2025, at Patterson High School. Six projects from the middle-school wide NHD fair at HHA earlier in February had been selected to move onto […]
Pimlico’s Black History Month Celebration
Black History Month in February was celebrated across the Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) network of neighborhood conversion charter schools in many ways throughout the month. Celebrating the diverse cultures of our school communities is central to BCP’s mission. On February 28, 2025, Pimlico Elementary / Middle School launched a new event, a schoolwide celebration of […]
BCP Readers
Teaching every child to read is the foundation of Direct Instruction (DI), the proven, research-backed classroom instructional program Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) piloted almost 30 years ago in Maryland. Now widely used by the Baltimore City Public Schools, BCP’s educational partner, DI continues to inspire BCP readers. Recently, two of our schools were recognized for […]
Corey Isaacs Named 2025 Winner of Brenda Kahn Memorial Award for Educational Excellence
Govans’ and Wolfe Street’s FIRST LEGO League Teams Win Awards
The FIRST LEGO League teams at Govans Elementary School and Wolfe Street Academy earned impressive results at the Baltimore City FLL Qualifying Tournament on Saturday, February 8, 2025. The Govans Dragon Designers won first place in the Innovation Project for the competition and will be advancing to the Maryland state competition on February 22. This […]
BCP Receives Hopkins Bloomberg American Health Initiative Grant for Improv Teacher and Student Program
In summer 2023, one of Todd Wade’s former students from Baltimore County’s Eastern Technical High School approached him with a novel idea: teaching students improvisational techniques, or improv, as life and problem-solving skills. The concept was a perfect fit with his role at City Springs Elementary / Middle School as Director of Restorative Practices, the […]
BCP Community Partner Spotlight: Poly STEM Outreach Club
Andrew Gao is a junior at the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (Poly), who previously attended Wolfe Street Academy, a Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) neighborhood conversion charter school. He has fond memories of his time there, remembering the supportive teachers and staff, Principal Gaither, and his classmates. His education at Wolfe Street prepared him well for the […]