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 […]
How Assistant Principals Support and Sustain School Culture and Achievement
Muriel Berkeley, BCP Founder and Heroine
Bernarda Kwaw, BCP Leader of Distinction
Student Mental Health and Social Media
“Every day, we see how social media is changing schools in the ways that we engage with students.” This opening comment by Harold S. Henry, Jr. Chief of Schools for Baltimore Curriculum Project’s (BCP) 2024 Leading Minds Conversation was hardly news to the several hundred BCP educators gathered on January 26, 2024 in the Pimlico […]
The Value of the Baltimore Curriculum Project Model for Families & Neighborhoods
Student Mental Health and Social Media
The facts grow more alarming with each passing year. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services data shows that children and teens who spend more than three hours a day on social media are two times at risk of mental health issues like depression and anxiety. The reality, based on a recent survey, is […]
BCP Leaders on the National Stage
This fall, several Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) leaders attended national conferences of top educators across the country or led programs for emerging educational leaders. We asked them to summarize a few takeaways from their experiences. Harold S. Henry, Jr., Chief of SchoolsAttended The Council of the Great City Schools annual fall conference in San Diego, […]
Reflections of a BCP Principal
I never wanted to be a principal. This is a common refrain from many school leaders, but it could not be more true for me. I resisted at every opportunity leading up to accepting the role at Frederick Elementary School (FES) in 2017, when FES became a Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) neighborhood conversion charter school. […]
How Restorative Practices Changes School Communities
