Educational Resources

BCP Winter Assembly Presentations

• ELL Newcomers by Rachel Dorchak and Ashley Green, Jan 23, 2023
• Making Thinking Visible by Charmaine Turner, Jan 23, 2023
• 5 Minute Circles Activities by Todd Wade, Jan 23, 2023
• Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) Data and Analysis by Matt Cobb and Katie Johnson, Jan 23, 2023
• Corrections and Firming- Language by Patrice Riggins, Jan 23, 2023
• How To Get Scholars To Think Deeper by Anthony Patterson, Jan 23. 2023
• Understanding Culturally Responsive Teaching by Wyatt Oroke, Jan 23, 2023
• Improving Math Problem Solving Instruction by Patrice Riggins, Jan 23, 2023

2023 Leading Minds Resources

Books

• We Want to Do More Than Survive by Bettina Love
• Bandwidth Recovery: Helping Students Reclaim Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, Racism, and Social Marginalization by Cia Verschelden
• The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America by Lawrence T. Brown
• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk
• Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain by Zaretta Hammond
• Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal by Donna Jackson Nakazawa
• Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids Brains and What Schools Can Do About It by Eric Jensen
• Bandwidth Recovery for Schools: Helping Pre-K – 12 Students Regain Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, Trauma, Racism, and Social Marginalization
• Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris
• The Trayvon Generation by Elizabeth Alexander
• Ratchetdemic : Reimaging Academic Success by Christopher Emdin

Articles

• Policing that Perpetuates Baltimore’s Islands of Poverty and Despair – Barbara Bezdek
• The Mental Health of Black Youth Affected by Community Violence: Family and School Context as Pathways to Resilience, Donte T. Boyd
• Understanding violence and developing resilience with African American youth in high-poverty, high-crime communities, Katherine Tyson McCrea
• After-school poly-strengths programming for urban teens at high risk for violence exposure, Kelly D. Cromer
• Indirect violence exposure and mental health symptoms among an urban public-school population: Prevalence and correlates, Erica L. Gollub
• The Urban Youth Trauma Center: A Trauma-Informed Continuum for Addressing Community Violence, Jaleel Abdul-Adil & Liza Suarez
• The Effects of Violence on Health, Frederick Rivara

BCP Resources

• Supporting Students Training to De-escalate difficult behavior by Jon McGill 2021
• Trauma What It Is, How to Provide School-Based Support by Jon McGill 2021
• Restorative Practices in Schools What? How? Why? When? Where? With Whom? by Jon McGill 2021

Links to Outside Resources

• Core Knowledge Foundation Provides overview of Core Knowledge, resources, etc.
• National Institute for Direct Instruction The National Institute for Direct Instruction (NIFDI) is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to providing school districts with a solid training program and approach for the implementation of DI in districts, schools and classrooms.

HOW TO ORDER BCP/CORE KNOWLEDGE LESSONS

You may call, e-mail or fax an order form to order the lessons:

• Order Lessons Online
• Lesson Plan Order Form (PDF)
• E-mail: bcpinfo@baltimorecp.org
• Telephone: 410-675-7000
• Fax: 410-675-7030