BCP News

Sir Speedy Supports BCP Fundraising Gala

2012-02-20T13:23:00.000-08:00

Thank you to Sir Speedy Printing and Marketing Services of Linthicum, Maryland for being the print and design sponsor for BCP's Are You Smarter than a BCP 5th Grader ? Fundraising Gala on April 20, 2012. Sir Speedy is donating the design and printing of the invitations and event signage.

In January 2012 Sir Speedy facilitated a donation of 2,000 book bags for BCP students from Travel Advantage Network.

About Sir Speedy
Sir Speedy offers advanced technologies that help customers reach their customers more effectively including high speed black and white copying, color copying, full color offset printing, promotional items, and integrated direct marketing campaigns.

For more information visit: http://www.sirspeedy.com/centers/LinthicumMD870/

RCM and D Supports BCP Fundraising Gala

2012-02-17T13:32:00.000-08:00

Thank you to RCM&D for supporting BCP's Are You Smarter than a BCP 5th Grader ? Fundraising Gala on April 20, 2012 with a $500 sponsorship. RCM&D is an independent insurance, risk management and employee benefits consulting firm.

About RCM&D Corporate Responsibility
(from http://rcmd.utdev.com/about-rcmd/corporate-citizenship)

Responsibility in and to the communities we serve is central to our core values and corporate culture. At RCM&D, we recognize that we are more than just a collection of people, but rather we have a unique opportunity to be an encouraging force within the communities we serve. Equally, these same communities guide us in our foundational thinking of our greater responsibility beyond our everyday work.

Whether you see our staff working in community soup kitchens, building homes for the homeless or donating an immeasurable number of hours to community boards and organizations, we take our engagement as serious stewards of the world around us. Each year, this engagement is shaped through the RCM&D Regatta, the firm’s pinnacle event in its community service calendar. Since 1994, the Regatta has served as the collaboration and celebration of our commitment to being a truly responsible and responsive organization.

IWIF Supports BCP Fundraising Gala

2012-02-16T11:59:00.000-08:00

Thank you to IWIF for sponsoring BCP's "Are You Smarter than a BCP 5th Grader?" Fundraising Gala on April 20, 2012 with a $500 sponsorship. IWIF also recently sponsored BCP's 2011 Leading Minds Forum.

IWIF provides volunteers, assistance and leadership. The IWIF & You Charitable Program, created in 2000, weaves together four components that enable employees to reach out to their favorite charities in several ways.

They include: grants, matching donations, collections, and volunteer hours. The program objectives are to ensure that funds and support remain consistent with the company’s values and goals, and provide on- going opportunities for employees to donate their time.

For more information visit: https://www.iwif.com/about-iwif/iwif-in-the-community

Restorative Practices Event at Hampstead Hill Academy

2012-02-16T08:18:00.000-08:00

Principals from across the city observed restorative circles in several
Hampstead Hill Academy classrooms, including Teacher Debbie Lastner's. (above)

Thank you to Hampstead Hill Academy and the International Institute for Restorative Practices (IIRP) for an inspiring introduction to Restorative Practices this morning for over 40 Baltimore City Schools principals and teachers! Attendees visited classrooms and participated in restorative circles.

Baltimore Curriculum Project President Muriel Berkeley, Hampstead Hill Academy Principal Matthew Hornbeck and City Springs Middle/Elementary School Principal Rhonda Richetta delivered wonderful presentations on their experience implementing this positive approach to building school culture. http://www.iirp.edu/

BCP Quiz Show Fundraiser with CEO Alonso and Mayor Rawlings-Blake

2012-02-14T17:20:00.000-08:00

On Friday, April 20, 2012 the Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) will host Are You Smarter Than a BCP 5th Grader? - a fundraiser to empower neighborhood schools with the tools they need to help every child succeed.

The event will feature a quiz show with BCP students competing against Baltimore City Schools CEO Andres Alonso, Houston Texans Wide Receiver Bryant Johnson and Baltimore City Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.

Attendees will also enjoy dinner, drinks, a silent auction, and live music by Tony Berry & New Money.

For more information and tickets visit: http://bcp.givezooks.com/events/are-you-smarter-than-a-bcp-5th-grader

Legg Mason Supports BCP Fundraising Gala

2012-02-14T17:05:00.000-08:00

Thank you to Legg Mason for sponsoring BCP's "Are You Smarter than a BCP 5th Grader" Fundraising Gala on April 20, 2012 with a $1,000 sponsorship.

Legg Mason been a committed partner for many years, supporting Hamsptead Hill's recent Early Learning Wing Renovation and the Audubon Explorers program for Hampstead Hill students.

The Purpose of Public Education

2012-02-07T13:07:00.000-08:00

By Larry Schugam, Executive Vice President, Baltimore Curriculum Project

The purpose of public education should be to increase the amount of love in the world.

I often hear teachers say that “students won’t care what you know until they know that you care.”

In my education I had some teachers who seemed to care, but the overall impression was that education was a weeding-out process. The system was mainly fear-based – if you don’t pass these tests, you won’t get into a good college and you’ll wind up in the gutter.

Kids should know that the reason we require them to spend so much time in school is because we love them and want them to have the knowledge, tools, and assets they need to live healthy, fulfilling, connected lives full of joy and love.

There is a lot of talk now about kids being prepared for the workforce, and this is critical, but the people who recently crashed our economy and defrauded millions were very well-educated and prepared for the workforce; however, I imagine that their capacity to love and consider the needs of the millions they defrauded may have been sub-par.

We need restorative schools that restore everyone involved – students, teachers, parents, administrators, and operators. An environment where people embrace the ideal that "it is better to be kind.”

We all come with some kind of baggage and wounds. Schools should be places of healing, where people learn to communicate and work together. Where challenges and discord are viewed not as as excuses to lambast people behind their backs; but as opportunities to grow spiritually. Where we all get the healing we need to love and respect one another.

One of my teachers always says “Learn to love your relatives. You don’t have to like them, but you have to love them, which can be hard because some of them are such $%&*!”

I'll end with the following excerpt from an NPR interview with Cornel West:

COX: Why, thank you. I appreciate the compliment. Let's begin with this, Cornel, if we might. You talk a lot about the lack of love. You say there is a lack of available love in black America. What do you mean by that?

Prof. WEST: Well, I think it's true in the society as a whole. We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property, it doesn't leave a whole lot of time for non-market values and non-market activity so that love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit. You see it in our television culture that's obsessed with superficial spectacle. You see it even in our educational systems, where the market model becomes central. It's a matter of just gaining a skill or gaining access to a job to live in some vanilla suburb, as opposed to becoming a critical citizen concerned with public interest and common good.

It's a spiritual malnutrition tied to a moral constipation, where people have a sense of what's right and what's good. It's just stuck, and they can't get it out because there's too much greed. There's too much obsession with reputation and addiction to narrow conceptions of success.

And when I talk about love, I'm talking about something that's great, though, brother. I'm talking about something that will sustain you. It's like an Aretha Franklin song, brother, or a Coltrane solo or Beethoven symphony, something that grabs you to the gut and gives you a sense of what it is to be human.

That's what we're more and more lacking, and it's very sad. It's a sign of a decline of an empire, my brother.

Read the full interview at:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128933353

Wolfe Street Academy Workforce Tutors Students

2012-02-07T09:33:00.000-08:00

Every day last September, as we eased in the school year and started the after school program, 5th grader Mario would ask “when’s my tutor coming back?”

Mario’s tutor, Linnea Zimmerman, is a student at the The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who has been meeting with Mario on a weekly basis since he was in 3rd grade, to help him with reading and math skills.

Linnea is a member of The Wolfe Street Academy (WSA) Workforce, a volunteer program run by students at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine since 2006. The program has grown every year since then, and now includes volunteers from The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and The Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering as well.

Mario has a strong connection with Linnea , and in the time he has been working with her he has improved academically to a point where he is ready to successfully graduate both from elementary school, and from the tutoring program.

This school year, 35 Wolfe Street Academy children are receiving individual weekly tutoring services, mostly from graduate students with the Wolfe Street Academy Workforce. Fourteen of the tutors have tutored at WSA for two years or more.

Deborah Apple, a 3rd grade teacher who is actively involved in the program, has noticed the value of having seasoned tutors returning for a second year or more.

“It is wonderful to have so many second year tutors at WSA this year. The relationships they build with students and academic support they provide are invaluable for both struggling students and their teachers,” said Ms. Apple.

Many of those second year tutors are medical students, and in a few weeks they will be moving on to the next phase in their own education – hospital rotations and studying for their Board exams!

The current group of graduate student leaders have taken action to both retain volunteers and make sure they have the skills necessary to help young tutees overcome challenges.

In spring 2011, when she assumed leadership of the program, Sara Fuhrhop began a recruitment campaign to immediately replace those second year medical students who had started their rotations.

“The second year medical students have truly enjoyed working with the students at Wolfe Street Academy," said Ms. Fuhrhop.

"As future physicians, we must be effective teachers and altruistic partners with our patients. Our experiences as tutors at WSA have reaffirmed these values and have taught us so much about how to embody these qualities in our future careers."

Recently, tutors Paul Gilbert and Julia Thorn organized a panel discussion about ADHD and education, which included WSA special educator Katrina Kickbush, a psychologist from The Baltimore Lab School and a child psychiatrist from Hopkins Hospital.

They discussed the difficulties that kids, teachers and tutors face in educating children with ADHD and other special needs.

The efforts are paying off! Last year, NWEA testing showed that children in individual tutoring, all of whom have a history of struggling academically, grew academically at an equal rate with their peers who did not have a history of difficulties.

We would like to thank the students from The Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Public Health and Bioengineering for supporting our students. We will be recognizing all of our tutors with two or more years of tutoring at our Family Night on February 15th.

New Early Literacy Book by BCP Coach Susan Lattimore

2012-02-04T05:34:00.000-08:00

BCP Academic Coach Susan Lattimore and Charlene Iannone-Campbell have written a new book on early literacy entitled Lift-Off for Early Literacy: Directed Reading Opportunities for Struggling Students.

Created by teachers for teachers, this activity-based curriculum is based on Project Early ID, a successful pilot program that's been improving reading outcomes in Baltimore public schools since 2005. Expertly organizing their lessons into one hands-on, step-by-step guide, the authors give teachers, SLPs, and paraprofessionals eleven complete units of small-group instruction.

Congratulations to Susan on her new book!

For more information visit:
http://www.brookespublishing.com/store/books/iannone-campbell-70991/index.htm

Active Learning Strategies Workshop with Susan Lattimore

2012-02-04T04:52:00.000-08:00

On Thursday, January 26, 2012 BCP Academic Coach Susan Lattimore presented a well-received workshop on Active Learning Strategies, as part of BCP's 2012 Winter Professional Development Conference.

Susan would like to recognize the following people who helped her tremendously, preparing and carrying out the session: Rosemary Byron and Maura Farrall from Wolfe Street Academy; Hayat Pacquette and Evangeline Lozada from Collington Square School of the Arts; and Charleye Dyer, a retired Baltimore City vision mobility specialist.

Chicage Tribune Features Restorative Practices at City Springs School

2012-02-02T21:27:00.000-08:00

An article in the Chicago Tribune on February 2, 2012 explores the implementation of Restorative Practices at City Springs School. BCP brought Restorative Practices to its four neighborhood charter schools in 2007 with support from Open Society Institute-Baltimore, the Goldsmith Family Foundation, and the International Institute for Restorative Practices (IIRP)

Read the article at:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201202011530--tms--rkoehlerctnbk-a20120202feb02,0,249104.column

Urbanite Features City Springs and Collington Square

2012-02-02T21:16:00.000-08:00

An article about empathy in the February 2012 edition of Urbanite Magazine features two of BCP's four neighborhood charter schools: City Springs School and Collington Square School. The article covers Koli Tengella's Theater Arts Program at Collington Square School and the implementation of Restorative Practices at City Springs School.

In 2007 BCP implemented Restorative Practices at City Springs, Collington Square, Hampstead Hill Academy and Wolfe Street Academy, with the generous support of grants from Open Society Institute-Baltimore and the Goldsmith Family Foundation.

Both Koli Tengella and Tonya Featherston, BCP's former Director of Restorative Practices, received OSI fellowships to work with BCP schools.

Read the article at:
http://www.urbanitebaltimore.com/baltimore/walking-in-someone-elses-shoes/Content?oid=1468385

BCP Seeks President/CEO

2012-01-31T17:57:00.000-08:00

Dear Friends of the Baltimore Curriculum Project:

The Baltimore Curriculum Project’s Founding President, Muriel Berkeley, will be retiring this year.

BCP was Muriel’s vision. Motivated by her affection for the City’s public school students and her conviction that a research-based curriculum delivered by well- trained, hard working, highly motivated school personnel is an essential component of a successful school, Muriel has led BCP to where it is today.

Finding a successor for our Founding President will be a difficult task.

A Search Committee has been formed and we have begun advertising for applicants. We are certain that our best chance of finding the perfect person is if people like you, who know BCP, get the word out to friends who might be interested and urge them to apply.

Click here to view the job description (PDF file). It is also posted on our website: www.baltimorecp.org. We are asking that requests for information and applications be sent electronically to bcpsearchcommittee@yahoo.com.

Hats off to Muriel and her amazing tenure with BCP and thanks in advance for your help as we move forward.

George Hess Anne S. Perkins
Chair, Board of Directors Chair, Search Committee

BCP Winter 2012 Professional Development Conference

2012-01-31T16:23:00.000-08:00

On Thursday, January 26, 2012 BCP hosted its Winter 2012 Professional Development Conference for over 200 teachers from City Springs School, Collington Square School of the Arts, Hampstead Hill Academy, and Wolfe Street Academy.

BCP provides two professional development conferences and several day-long seminars each year. Principals determine their staff training needs and BCP customizes training to meet those needs. BCP also provides training that addresses areas identified by BCP coaches and leadership staff.

Click here to view the event program (PDF file).

A variety of workshops were offered at the Winter Conference including:

CHAMPS: How to manage difficult kids
Challenges in Urban Education
Literacy Centers: Incorporating Literacy Centers into the Primary
Classroom
Maximizing Opportunity to Learn: Engagement Strategies
Enrichment Activities for DI Lessons
Effective Firm Up Procedures
Writing Workshop
Effective Lesson Planning for All Learning Levels

Presenters included Tara Anderson, Laura Doherty, Nora Hogan, Brenda Kahn, Marvelyn Johnson, Jeff Krick, Susan Lattimore, Jon McGill, Laura Moyers, Ed Schaefer,

Keynote Address

Journalist Shepard Barbash delivered the keynote address. Barbash has been a writer for thirty years. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, City Journal, Education Next and other publications.

He is former bureau chief of the Houston Chronicle in Mexico City and is the author of five books, including Clear Teaching, published in January by the Education Consumers Foundation.

Luncheon Speakers and City Springs Choir

Collington Square School of the Arts Resource Teacher Lauren Bevacqua and City Springs School Para Professional Antoine Lewis delivered talks during lunch. This was followed by a performance of the City Springs School Choir.

Thank you

We would like to thank Hampstead Hill Academy for hosting the 2012 Winter Professional Development Conference and the entire HHA staff for making it a success.

Thank you to Chipotle and ADP for sponsoring the conference.

Thank you to Tara Anderson for organizing the conference and to all of the BCP staff members who helped out: Tilda Johnson, Larry Schugam, and Angela Scott.

City Springs Restorative Practices Featured on CBS

2012-01-26T18:33:00.000-08:00

City Springs School's implementation of Restorative Practices was featured in a January 25th CBS News broadcast.

Restorative Practices is a proactive approach for building a school community based on cooperation, mutual understanding, and respect. Restorative practices provides processes for holding students accountable for their actions and behavior while at the same time building a nurturing school environment.

BCP brought Restorative Practices to its four neighborhood charter schools in 2007 with the support of grants from OSI-Baltimore and the Goldsmith Family Foundation.

Read the article and view the video at:
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2012/01/25/md-to-reconsider-zero-tolerance-policy-towards-conduct-violations-in-schools/

92Q Jams Supports Collington Square School

2012-01-26T12:37:00.000-08:00

On Friday January 25, 2012 Sean and Ian from 92Q Jams visited Collington Square School of the Arts to generate excitement about the school's incentive program for good behavior.

Students in grades three through five earn points for good behavior on their Collington Cards. The points add up to prizes an field trips.

In order to motivate the students, Assistant Principal Bernarda Kwaw invited 92Q to celebrate and shout out to the students who are doing a wonderful job using their Collington Cards.

Thank you to 92Q for supporting Collington Square School of the Arts.

Wolfe Street Receives Lowe's Grant for Living Classroom

2012-01-21T02:49:00.000-08:00

The Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation (LCEF) has awarded Wolfe Street Academy a 2011-2012 Lowe's Toolbox for Education grant of $2,000 to support the school's Outdoor Living Classroom Project.

The grant will enable the school to transform an underutilized courtyard into a serene Living Classroom learning environment for students, families and the local community. The courtyard, which currently contains a container garden, will also include benches, raised flower beds, a butterfly garden, a bird bath and feeders.

Teachers will use the University of Maryland Food Supplement Nutrition Education Program's Growing Healthy Habits (GHH) curriculum to provide nutrition education through gardening.

This curriculum was developed specifically for educators in Maryland reaching low-income youth who wish to use gardening as a tool for improving nutrition-related behaviors. GHH was written by Chrissa Carlson, Hampstead Hill Academy's Food for Life Educator.

A variety of partners are supporting the project. Students from Kennedy Krieger High School have volunteered to build the raised planter beds; Master Gardeners from the University of Maryland’s Nutrition Education Program will provide technical assistance; and the Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation will provide a variety of workshops for students on nutrition and gardening.

We would like to thank Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation for supporting our Living Classroom project.

About Lowe’s Toolbox for Education
Lowe’s Toolbox for Education grant program is funded by the Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation, which has supported thousands of grassroots community and school projects in the communities where Lowe’s does business. Learn More.

City Springs Sweeps MLK Essay Competition Again

2012-01-19T14:35:00.000-08:00

City Springs School has swept the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Writing Competition for the second year in a row. The competition is hosted by the Baltimore Urban Debate League (BUDL) and The Walters Art Museum.

Congratulations to Chelsea Gilmer (4th grade), Charisma Coles (6th grade), and Shardai Little (7th grade) for winning the Elementary and Middle School Divisions. They presented their winning essays at the Walters Art Museum's MLK Jr. Family Festival on January 16th.

The students composed essays about unsung heroes of the civil rights movement; what Dr. Martin Luther King meant to them; and how they want to continue his legacy today.

Last year City Springs School took 1st and 3rd place in the Elementary Division and 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in the Middle School Division.

Read the winning essays at:
http://www.baltimorecp.org/docs/MLK12essaywinners.pdf

View of video of Shardai Little reading her essay on the BUDL Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/bmoredebate

About BUDL
The Baltimore Urban Debate League (BUDL) enriches the academic experience of students from Baltimore City's public elementary, middle and high schools through participation in team policy debate. Through debate, students become engaged learners, critical thinkers and citizens and leaders who are effective advocates for themselves and their communities.
http://budl.org/

About The Walters Art Museum
The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland is internationally renowned for its collection of art, which was amassed substantially by two men, William and Henry Walters, and eventually bequeathed to the City of Baltimore. The collection presents an overview of world art from pre-dynastic Egypt to 20th-century Europe, and counts among its many treasures Greek sculpture and Roman sarcophagi; medieval ivories and Old Master paintings; Art Deco jewelry and 19th-century European and American masterpieces.
http://thewalters.org

BCP Featured on Restorative Practices Blog

2012-01-19T08:27:00.000-08:00

An article about BCP and Restorative Practices was featured on the Restorative Practices Blog:

In the fall of 2005 Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) President Muriel Berkeley attended a workshop at the Maryland Charter School Network Conference that sparked a wholesale transformation of school culture at BCP’s four neighborhood charter schools: City Springs School, Collington Square School of the Arts, Hampstead Hill Academy, and Wolfe Street Academy.
The workshop, led by Tonya Featherston, explored Restorative Practices (RP), a school-culture building approach that promotes positive relationships over punishment.

“RP was just what we were looking for to improve our school climates,” said Dr. Berkeley.

Read the full article at:

http://blog.iirp.edu/2012/01/baltimore-curriculum-project-and-restorative-practices-transforming-schools-neighborhoods/

Dorfman Museum Figures Donates Art Supplies

2012-01-18T16:50:00.000-08:00

Dorfman Museum Figures, a Dundalk-based business, has donated spools and other art supplies to Wolfe Street Academy's After-School Art Program. Students used the spools to create the beautiful artwork you see in the photo above.

Myra Gnadt, Administrator for Dorfman Museum Figures, has been instrumental in coordinating the supply donations. Founded by Earl Dorfman in 1957, Dorfman Museum Figures, Inc. has added vitality and drama to museums and exhibits from the Smithsonian to Singapore.

We would like to thank Dorfman Museum Figures and Ms. Gnadt for their support.

For more information about Dorfman Museum Figures visit: http://www.museumfigures.com

To learn more about the Wolfe Street After-School Art Program contact Program Director Nancy Jagelka at njagelka@gmail.com

BCP Schools Selected for MissionSpring Fundraising Training

2012-01-17T20:06:00.000-08:00

Two BCP Schools, City Springs School and Wolfe Street Academy, have been selected to participate in the inaugural class of MissionSpring, a yearlong, professional fundraising training academy being offered to Baltimore City’s charter, transformation, and innovation schools.

The program is sponsored by Supporting Public Schools of Choice, a project of the Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers, and led by Sangha Solutions and Jump Start Growth, Inc.

MissionSpring provides participating schools with the tools, knowledge, and confidence they need to build and sustain an individual giving program.

The inaugural class of MissionSpring (2012) includes the following schools: Baltimore Community High School, Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women, Bluford Drew Jemison STEM Academy, City Neighbors Foundation, City Springs School, Midtown Academy, Patterson Park Public Charter School, Southwest Baltimore Charter School, and Wolfe Street Academy.

We would like to thank Supporting Public Schools of Choice, Sangha Solutions, and Jump Start Growth, Inc. for making this opportunity available to our schools.

Hampstead Hill Academy January 2012 Newsletter

2012-01-14T18:40:00.000-08:00

Check out Hampstead Hill Academy's January 2012 Newsletter at: http://bitly.com/hhanews0112

Support Audubon with an Evening at Bistro RX

2012-01-14T18:04:00.000-08:00

Support the Patterson Park Audubon Center by dining at Bistro Rx on Thursday, January 26th between 4:00pm and 9:00 p.m. A portion of dinner and drink sales will be donated to Audubon's urban environmental education programs. Be sure to mention Audubon to your server.

Bistro Rx, located at the intersection of North Linwood Avenue and East Baltimore Street, is a Patterson Park neighborhood restaurant serving outstanding food and delicious wines.

http://bistrorx.net/

Patterson Park Audubon Center has provided Hampstead Hill Academy students with environmental education programming for several years. Each year Legg Mason contributes a generous matching grant to make this possible.

About Patterson Park Audubon Center

Patterson Park Audubon Center is part of Audubon Maryland-DC and has been actively involved in this Baltimore community since 2002, providing education programming with schools, recreation centers, and after school programs in Patterson Park. The education staff also provides public programs, including bird walks, Tiny Tot programs, Active Audubon! and family and adult programs in the Park for the community. We serve five of the elementary schools around Patterson Park, two after-school programs, as well as eight Baltimore City high schools. Several of these programs we offer in English and in Spanish.

http://pattersonpark.audubon.org/

Thank You to Hampstead Hill Partners

2012-01-14T17:44:00.000-08:00

We would like to thank the following partners for supporting Hampstead Hill Academy:

Melissa Thompson, General Manager at LensCrafters and the staff of LensCrafters for inviting five Hampstead Hill Academy students to their Hometown Event. The students received a free screening, eye examination and glasses.
The residents of Indecco Senior Apartments for their donation of hats, scarves and gloves for our kindergarten students.
The Bryan Family for donating miscellaneous items to the school.
The Edwards Family for a cash donation of $100 to the students of HHA.
All of the parents who have volunteered in various areas of the building: Ruth Pruitt, Ms. Jill, Ms. Peterson, Jeanne Pasko, Julie Bryan, Trish Gnibus, Jessica Smith, Kristina Bachman, Justin Pruitt, Maryana Romanyuk, Michele Franklin, Mr. Jillson and Dominique Zeltzman.
The parents who volunteered to chaperone field trips and who donated gently used uniforms.

Legg Mason Visits Hampstead Hill Academy

2012-01-14T17:16:00.000-08:00

Tom Hirschmann and Joe Larocque Read to HHA Students

On December 15, 2011 Legg Mason Managing Director Joe Larocque and Head of U.S. Sales Tom Hirschmann visited Hampstead Hill Academy to read to students in Mrs. Kaminaris and Mrs. Smith's kindergarten class.

They read the 20th Anniversary edition of Jan Brett's The Mitten and gave each student a copy of the book, a hat and a pair of mittens. The students were delighted with the story and excited to wear their new hats and mittens.

We would like to thank Mr. Larocque, Mr. Hirschmann and Legg Mason for their generosity and continuing support.