News and Press
BCP Board Meeting Recap: Key Updates and School Progress
The Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) Board of Directors met on March 6, 2025, at Frederick Elementary School (FES) to discuss updates on finances, school performance, and future initiatives. FES...
Strong Schools as Catalysts for Neighborhood Renewal: Pimlico Elementary / Middle School
Strong schools are key to revitalizing communities, serving as anchors that foster local engagement and attract families and businesses. Pimlico Elementary / Middle School (PEMS), in collaboration...
HHA Historians Advance to State National History Day Competition
Several 8th grade historians at Hampstead Hill Academy (HHA) advanced to the state-level competition of the National History Day (NHD) competition after competing at the districtwide level on...
Pimlico’s Black History Month Celebration
Black History Month in February was celebrated across the Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) network of neighborhood conversion charter schools in many ways throughout the month. Celebrating the...
BCP Readers
Teaching every child to read is the foundation of Direct Instruction (DI), the proven, research-backed classroom instructional program Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) piloted almost 30 years ago...
Corey Isaacs Named 2025 Winner of Brenda Kahn Memorial Award for Educational Excellence
Congratulations to Mr. Corey Isaacs, 7th grade ELA teacher, at Pimlico Elementary / Middle School, who is the 2025 recipient of the Brenda Kahn Memorial Award for Educational Excellence. This...
Govans’ and Wolfe Street’s FIRST LEGO League Teams Win Awards
The FIRST LEGO League teams at Govans Elementary School and Wolfe Street Academy earned impressive results at the Baltimore City FLL Qualifying Tournament on Saturday, February 8, 2025. The Govans...
BCP Receives Hopkins Bloomberg American Health Initiative Grant for Improv Teacher and Student Program
In summer 2023, one of Todd Wade’s former students from Baltimore County’s Eastern Technical High School approached him with a novel idea: teaching students improvisational techniques, or improv, as...
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...
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.