Community Partner Spotlight: CBRE
A year ago, this past Thanksgiving, CBRE , a commercial real estate firm in the Inner Harbor, began its outreach with City Springs Elementary Middle School, one of the six neighborhood conversion charter schools in the Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) network. In fall 2024, a CBRE colleague introduced the firm to Aaron Trumnio, City Springs’ […]
City Springs’ Leader In Me Class Inspires PreK-8 Leaders
BCP Helps with Public Sculpture Restoration Near City Springs
David Hess, award-winning Baltimore sculptor and furniture maker, has 32 public art sculptures dotted across Maryland, most of them in the Baltimore region. In 2006, Mr. Hess installed Baltimore Passage in Albemarle Square, just a few blocks from City Springs Elementary / Middle School, the Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) neighborhood conversion charter school located in […]
City Springs and Hampstead Hill Students View Restorative Practices Documentary
The City Springs Elementary / Middle School (CS) 8th grade joined their peers at Hampstead Hill Academy (HHA) on October 3, 2025, for an HHA Leaders Go Places (LGP) meeting in HHA’s Newstead Gym to view the new short documentary, “Restorative Practices Make Strong Schools.” The film, which was produced and funded through Voices for […]
BCP Premieres New Documentary on Restorative Practices
September 29, 2025, in Hampstead Hill Academy’s Newstead Gym, Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) kicked off its 30th year celebration with another “first”—its first-ever film premiere. Restorative Practices Make Strong Schools, the short documentary created by Voices for Restorative Schools, tells the story of Restorative Practices, which has been championed by BCP since 2005 when Dr. […]
Remembering Bernice Whelchel, Former City Springs Principal
Bernice E. Whelchel, former principal of City Springs Elementary/Middle School, a partner school with Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) since 1996, when BCP was founded. Mrs. Whelchel, powerful advocate of Direct Instruction for Baltimore City Public Schools and the nation, passed away on September 5, 2025 at the age of 77. Her educational impact in Baltimore […]
Meet Mr. Trumino, City Springs’ Community School Coordinator
At Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) charter schools, the role of Community School Coordinator is essential. BCP embraces the community school model, which means that providing wrap-around services for its students and families is as important as what happens in the classroom. Each school’s Community School Coordinator, hired by that school’s lead community partner, manages and […]
Paige Golden, RN, City Springs Alumna
Paige Golden is living her dream job. She’s a pediatric travel nurse currently on an assignment in Kansas at the Hutchinson Regional Medical Center. Prior to that, her assignment was in the residential psychiatric facility of the ERC Pathlight Mood & Anxiety Center in Cockeysville, Md. It’s an exciting career that first sparked for Paige […]
Celebrating Student Success: Where BCP Students Go Next
Each June, Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) schools proudly celebrate their 5th and 8th grade students as they take the next steps in their educational journeys. Through joyful and heartfelt closing exercises, families, educators, and peers gather to recognize the achievements of these students and the bright paths that lie ahead. This year, more than 280 […]
T. Rowe Price Teaches City Springs’ 6th Grade to be Money Confident
This spring, 6th grade students at City Springs Elementary / Middle School learned much more than reading, writing, and arithmetic. Thanks to T. Rowe Price’s Money Confident Kids Financial Literacy Curriculum, a financial literacy program geared for middle school students, they learned about budgeting, saving, earning interest, and more critical financial lessons. The innovative, interactive […]