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What is the Purpose of Public Education?
In this issue Baltimore City Schools CEO Andr�s A. Alonso, Ed.D., Legg Mason Chairman and CEO Mark Fetting, and BCP President and Founder Muriel Berkeley, Ph.D. share their thoughts on the purpose of public education.
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• View the video of BCP's 2010 Leading Minds Forum: The Purpose of Public Education, at: www.baltimorecp.org/leadingminds  

 

The Charlesmead Foundation Awards BCP Grant to Support Summer Training

The Charlesmead Foundation has awarded the Baltimore Curriculum Project a generous grant of $5,000 to support our summer 2011 CHAMPS Behavior Management Training for new and returning teachers. This critical training provides teachers with the tools they need to create classroom environments that foster learning. We would like to thank Lynn and Tony Deering for their interest in our schools.  

 

 

Students Learn from Experience
Last year teachers at City Springs School and Hampstead Hill Academy received an extra hand from the dedicated volunteers of Experience Corps. Founded in 1995, this national program engages people over 55 in meeting their communities' greatest challenges.
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THE IMPACT OF POVERTY ON EDUCATION

Thursday, September 22, 2011, 4:00-7:00 pm

Loyola University Maryland

Register at http://bcp.eventbrite.com 

 

How does poverty impact education? How can schools mitigate this impact? Where do we  go from here? Join BCP, Loyola University Maryland and Urbanite Magazine as we explore this issue with Peter C. Murrell, Jr., Ph.D. (Professor of Urban Education, Loyola University Maryland School of Education); Jane Quinn (Vice President and Director of National Center for Community Schools, Children's Aid Society); and Heather B. Weiss, Ph.D. (Founder and Director of
the Harvard Family Research Project). Marc Steiner, host of The Marc Steiner Show on WEAA 88.9 FM, will moderate the discussion.

Thank you to our sponsors:

Baltimore City Schools Parent and Community Advisory Board,

Baltimore's Safe and Sound Campaign, Congressional Bank, Municipal Employees Credit Union of Baltimore and Venable LLP. 

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If you visit City Springs School at any time of day there is order and a sense of calm. Students are respectful in the classroom, hallways, administrative offices and cafeteria. Restorative Practices (RP), a proactive approach to positive school-wide behavior support, has helped create a nurturing environment where students learn to communicate effectively and act responsibly. It wasn't always this way.
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Collington Square School: Beyond the School Day