The Economics and Educational Necessity of School Attendance
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 general public. As educators, we know how critical daily attendance is to a child’s success […]
BCP’s History with Direct Instruction and NIFDI
When I was a graduate student in Special Education and Rehabilitation at the University of Oregon, the direction of my life changed when I met Jerry Silbert, one of the leaders and program authors of the four-decade Direct Instruction (DI) movement with the National Institute for Direct Instruction (NIFDI). In 1996, BCP, in partnership with […]
Deepening the Impact of Community Schools
There are 454 community schools in Maryland, located in every county with the highest concentration in Baltimore City. These community schools offer far more than a solid public school education. By their mission, these schools focus on the well-being of their community members and the high-need neighborhoods in which they are located. Research routinely shows […]
Improving Math Proficiency and Success at Baltimore Curriculum Project Schools
Everybody can be good at math. I’m a former middle school math teacher and know that many people feel like they’re not good at math. But if it’s taught well, everybody can be good at math. As a partner with Baltimore City Public Schools and as Maryland’s largest and oldest charter school operator, Baltimore Curriculum […]
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
