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Post-Pandemic Strategies for Tackling Chronic Absenteeism and Reinventing Parent Engagement and Community Schools

by Brianna Kaufman | Feb 21, 2025 | Blog

What happens when students don’t attend school regularly? What are the consequences of a pandemic unraveling our social fabric and making it difficult to restore stability? How do we address the growing challenges and traumas that families face today? And what does...

The Benefit and Impact of Charter Schools

by Laura Doherty | Jan 22, 2025 | Blog

The history of charter schools in Baltimore City is part of a broader narrative about school choice and equitable access to education. In the early 2000s, Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) implemented a high school choice program, allowing incoming ninth...

Empowering Middle School Leaders for Real-time Impact and Long-term Change

by Matt Cobb | Dec 13, 2024 | Blog, Hampstead Hill

Twelve years ago, a group of us at Hampstead Hill Academy, a Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) neighborhood conversion public charter school in South Baltimore, launched Leaders Go Places (LGP) with our middle school. The initial idea and early funding for the...

The Healing Impact of Peaceful Parenting

by Baltimore Curriculum Project | Nov 21, 2024 | Blog, Pimlico

This fall, Andria Cole, founder of The Restorative Project and a nationally noted educator and Restorative Practices facilitator, launched a series of Peaceful Parenting Workshop and weekly Circles at Pimlico Elementary / Middle School for its parent community. She...

Learning to Lead: Engaging Middle Schoolers in Civic Responsibility

by Kevin Ball | Oct 17, 2024 | Blog, Hampstead Hill

Teaching civic engagement and civic responsibility to middle schoolers is always interesting. This particular presidential election and moment in our country’s polarized political climate makes it especially interesting. Civics instruction is important from a...

The Economics and Educational Necessity of School Attendance

by Harold S. Henry, Jr. | Sep 12, 2024 | Blog

As the new school year begins, let’s take a pause to talk about the importance of enrollment and attendance. Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) believes in sharing information about our schools’ operations to further strengthen relationships with our families and the...

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About the Baltimore Curriculum Project

Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) is the largest operator of local neighborhood, public charter schools in Maryland. We create safe, supportive learning environments for children PK-8 by providing innovative, research-based educational strategies, intensive teacher training and extensive support for administration and staff. We support our local neighborhood needs by tailoring our resources and support through community partnerships.

As one of the longest-running charter operators in Maryland, our schools are regularly recognized as some of the most highly acclaimed neighborhood charter schools in the state.