News and Press
BCP Community Partner Spotlight: Poly STEM Outreach Club
Andrew Gao is a junior at the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (Poly), who previously attended Wolfe Street Academy, a Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) neighborhood conversion charter school. He...
Q&A With Author Carole Boston Weatherford
Award-winning children’s and young adult author Carole Boston Weatherford has written more than 80 books, several in collaboration with her son, artist Jeffery Boston Weatherford. Among the awards...
National History Days at City Springs and Hampstead Hill
Young historians at two Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) schools spent weeks preparing for their National History Day presentations. Each year, the nonprofit National History Day (NHD) program...
Frederick Math Students Master Mathopoly
Frederick School Elementary 4th and 5th graders participated in Ingenuity’s Mathopoly Competition on January 25, 2025. This citywide event featured 96 students from eight Baltimore City elementary...
Meet the Board Member: Keith Scroggins
Keith Scroggins, the retired Chief Operating Officer for Baltimore City Public Schools and Baltimore Curriculum Project’s (BCP) educational partner, brings extensive school system expertise to the...
BCP Grads Going Places: Wolfe Street Alumna Breslin Ocampo
Breslin Ocampo, graduate of Wolfe Street Academy, Baltimore City Curriculum (BCP) neighborhood conversion charter school, loved her time as a Wolfe. She’s taken the many lessons learned there to...
BCP Community Partner Spotlight: Johns Hopkins Neighborhood Fund
The Johns Hopkins Neighborhood Fund (JHNF), part of Johns Hopkins University’s Community Health Investment program, partners with Wolfe Street Academy (WSA), a Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP)...
Q&A With Theresa Braxton, Pimilco Community School Coordinator
Theresa Braxton, Community School Coordinator for Pimlico Elementary / Middle School, is an author, community advocate, and passionate champion of the Park Heights community. Raised in the...
Inside the Classroom: A Look at DI Learning
Since 1996, Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) has brought Direct Instruction (DI) to Baltimore City Public Schools, helping students achieve better outcomes. Developed in the 1960s by Siegfried...
Hampstead Hill Players Present Finding Nemo, Jr.
On February 13-15, 2025, at Hampstead Hill Academy, the Hampstead Hill Players will present the musical Finding Nemo, Jr. The show is performed and presented by the 4th through 8th grade actors and...
Elected Officials Visit BCP Schools
Over the past few months, several elected officials and one former Baltimore City Mayor visited Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) schools to share their experiences and civic leadership journeys...
Three BCP Schools Get Charter Renewals
Congratulations to three of our Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) neighborhood conversion charter schools on their recent successful charter renewals. On January 14, 2025, the Baltimore City Public...
BCP In the News
Check out recent media mentions of the Baltimore Curriculum Project.
WMARABC2
Today Show
Baltimore Magazine
Ego Nwodim, SNL star and Baltimore native, is partnering with BCP to teach educators and students improv skills to use as problem-solving and life skills. Baltimore Magazine featured her work with BCP in its annual GameChangers issue.
WMAR-2 NEWS
Matt Hornbeck, Principal of Hampstead Hill Academy, was interviewed about the negative impact of social media on teenagers and HHA’s strategies to address this important issue.
BALTIMORE BUSINESS JOURNAL
Hampstead Hill Academy broke ground on April 18, 2024 for an exciting expansion and renovation project to benefit the school and the Southeast Baltimore community.
WJZ
WBAL-TV
SNL Cast Member Ego Nwodim and her brother Dr. Emeka Nwodim visited City Springs Elementary / Middle School to launch a series of life-skills-building workshops using improv for City Springs’ middle school Peer Mediators.
BALTIMORE BANNER ARTICLE
Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Banner reporter, writes about Hampstead Hill Academy’s introduction of Yondr phone bags to limit student smartphone use during the school day to enhance academic engagement and increase personal connections and conversations with one another.
CBS NEWS BALTIMORE
Pimlico middle school students learned life-saving Stop-the-Bleed skills as part of the school’s unique partnership with Sinai Hospital, the Pimlico/Sinai Middle Grades Health Sciences Program
UNION TALK PODCAST
Wolfe Street Academy’s Mark Gaither, Principal, and educator Katrina Kickbush, discuss how community schools deliver on the promise of public education with American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten.
