Video of Hampstead Hill Food for Life Program

The Plant-Based Nutrition website features a video about the Food for Life program at Hampstead Hill Academy.

http://www.plantbasednutrition.org/plant-based-nutrition/interviews/food-studies/

The Food for Life program uses the Food Studies Institute's Food is Elementary curriculum. The Food Studies Institute (FSI) is devoted to changing the health destinies of children through proper nutrition and education. This has been the life-long work of Dr. Antonia Demas whose groundbreaking curriculum, Food is Elementary, educates children about nutrition by providing a positive experience of food and food preparation that is fun, hands-on and sensory-based.

BCP Spring 2009 Newsletter

Read the BCP Spring 2009 Newsletter at
www.baltimorecp.org/newsletter/BCPnews_spring09.htm

Hampstead Hill Lit Mag Featured on BCPS Website

The Baltimore City Public Schools website features an article about Hampstead Hill Academy's Literary Magazine.

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Download the Hampstead Hill Academy Literary Magazine.

Milt Thompson Selected As New Beloit Superintendent

BCP Board Member Milt Thompson has been selected to become the new Schools Superintendent for Beloit, Wisconsin. Mr. Thompson will take over the 7,130-student district on July 1, leaving his post as the Kenosha Unified School District's director of Title I, English as a Second Language and summer school programs.

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Unified veteran to run Beloit district (Kenosha News)

School chief ready to start job (Beloit Daily News)

Hampstead Hill in City Journal

A City Journal article from Autumn 2008 takes a look at the use of Direct Instruction in Pre-K classrooms, including Hampstead Hill Academy.
For the full article visit: http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_4_pre-k.html

"One site that has endured is Hampstead Hill Academy, a public charter school (pre-K to grade 8) operated by the Baltimore Curriculum Project, a nonprofit organization specializing in Direct Instruction. Stephanie Brown has taught DI math, reading, and language curricula there for ten years, the last five in all-day, state-funded pre-K. Eighty percent of her students come from poor homes, more than half are African-American or Latino, and one-third are immigrants still learning English. Many arrive not knowing how to hold a pair of scissors, use pronouns, speak in complete sentences, or follow simple directions. By the end of the school year, they have learned to sort objects into classes, identify opposites, recognize logical absurdities, use synonyms and if/then statements, create definitions for objects, read simple sentences, and do simple addition problems."

Collington Square in EBDI Newsletter

The January 2009 EBDI newsletter featured the following article about Collington Square School:

Collington Square School Forges Ahead

A celebration was held on Tuesday, December 9th at Collington Square School, operated by the Baltimore Curriculum Project, to mark the renovation of the school’s library. Ten years in the making, the project included upgrading, expanding, and/or building an office, stage, computer lab, IT station, and broadcast room.

Generous in-kind and monetary donations from Baltimore City Public Schools, school partners and other sources made this project possible. Some of those partners were on hand, including Mr. Henry Kahn and Rickey Hill from Hogan & Hartson LLP; Ms. Michelle Kurta, Ms. Sarah Morgan, and Ms. Jessica Rae from the Legal Aid Bureau; and Mr. Jonathan Oatis from Dickstein Shapiro LLP.

Ms. D’Andrea Chapman, Collington Square School’s principal, has more exciting plans, such as renovating the school auditorium for utilization as a community arts center focusing on visual and performing arts and increasing activities beyond the traditional school day. These activities
include middle school sports leagues and enrichment clubs.

One such standout club, The Baobab Program, is a year-long international service-learning class currently fundraising, with the operation of student businesses, for a May 2009
service-learning trip for 10 eighth graders to Central America.

There, the students will assist with rain forest community sustainability construction projects and trail preservation. For more information, please visit www.thebaobabprogram.org, or contact Ms. Kelia Murray at 410-675-7000.

Wolfe Street Featured in Obama Video

Emily Troutman, a 29-year-old writer and photographer living in Washington, spent last week going around with her video camera asking people to choose among 26 words to describe how they feel about President Obama's inauguration. As she explains on her blog, she paid a visit to Baltimore's Wolfe Street Academy, where her sister, Lauren Troutman, teaches first grade in a class where most students are learning English as a second language.

When she sent home permission slips for children to be included in her video with a picture of an Obama "Hope" poster, she writes, "the kids thought that Barack Obama was coming to school for pictures and my sister had to break their hearts! The new President is generally known in her class as, 'Rock Obama.'"
(Posted by Sara Neufeld on the Baltimore Sun's Inside Ed blog on January 27, 2009 6:03 AM)

A full-screen version of her video is available here or you can click below.


President Obama: Words for How We Feel Now from Emily Troutman on Vimeo.