by Baltimore Curriculum Project | Mar 24, 2025 | Blog, City Springs
In honor of Women’s History Month, we spoke with Dr. Rhonda Richetta, the Principal of City Springs Elementary / Middle School, since January 2005. City Springs has partnered with Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) since 1996. Dr. Richetta, who first came to City...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...