Programs List
The following organizations offer innovative enrichment programs for students and teachers in Maryland. To get additional details on each organization, click on the link to visit its Web site. As the BOAST Coalition grows, more programs will be added to this list.
Alice Ferguson Foundation
A team of educators teaches over 10,000 students annually through an on-site program at Hard Bargain Farm Environmental Center in Accokeek, Maryland, and through Bridging the Watershed, an off-site partnership program providing high school field studies in national parks.
American Visionary Art Museum
The American Visional Art Museum features bold, innovative, and inspirational works of art and exhibitions that examine the relationship of art to the human condition. The museum offers school tours and provides teachers with materials to make their class visits more fun and informative.
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
The BSO’s Mid-Week Education Concerts serve more than 30,000 public, private, parochial and home schooled children throughout the State of Maryland. Combined with our other music enrichment programs, the BSO serves over 70,000 Maryland children annually
Chesapeake Bay Foundation
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation education programs are designed to engage students, deepen their understanding of their environment, and support student achievement.
Chesapeake Bay Outward Bound Baltimore
The Baltimore Chesapeake Bay Outward Bound Center (BCBOBC) programs weave Outward Bound's core principles into the fabric of their communities through powerful partnerships with schools, local and regional youth-serving organizations, businesses, and civic leaders.
Citizenship Law-Related Education Program
Students are provided the opportunity to learn how the law plays an integral role in their lives and to further their understanding of, and appreciation for, our constitutional form of government through programs such as the MSBA High School Mock Trial Competition, Law Links Internship, and Baltimore City Teen Court.
Dyslexia Tutoring Program
The program's mission is to teach low-income children and adults throughout Maryland who are dyslexic or have a language-based learning difference to read.
Echo Hill Outdoor School
Echo Hill Outdoor School exists to provide students with positive experiences in the outdoors that are exciting, interesting, and fun. Students explore the forest, meadows, ponds, streams, swamps, marshes, beaches, fields, farms, towns, and the waters of the Chesapeake Bay.
Imagination Stage
Imagination Stage produces theatre and arts education programs which nurture, challenge, and empower young people of all abilities.
Jewish Museum of Maryland
The Jewish Museum of Maryland invites students to experience the rich vitality of Jewish heritage by visiting our Museum and participating in its school programs.
Junior Achievement of Central Maryland
Junior Achievement of Central Maryland works with more than 24,000 kids, kindergarten through grade 12. Its programs prepare youth to become valuable members of the workforce by learning the role of business in society and the role of financial literacy in life.
Living Classrooms Foundation
Living Classrooms Foundation is a non-profit organization that provides hands-on education and job skills training for students from diverse backgrounds, with a special emphasis on serving at-risk youth.
Maryland Historical Society
School programs introduce students to important topics in Maryland history and demonstrate the state’s role in national and world events.
Maryland Mentoring Partnership
The Maryland Mentoring Partnership (MMP) is an advocate, clearinghouse and expert resource for the advancement of youth mentoring statewide. Mentoring programs focus on helping youth improve scholastically, gain valuable workplace skills, and build competence and character.
Maryland Leadership Workshops
For 50 years, Maryland Leadership Workshops has provided leadership training to students across the Mid-Atlantic region. Its programs provide unique opportunities for students to grow by developing the skills of leadership and the skills of life.
Maryland Science Center
The Science Center welcomes educators and their classes to its Inner Harbor location throughout the school year with a variety of options for in-depth exploration and enrichment experiences.
National Aquarium in Baltimore
The Aquarium has hosted millions of Maryland students and teachers free of charge. The Aquarium offers field trips, teacher workshops, summer programs, and a variety of other educational programs.
Parks and People Foundation
Motivating youth to become involved in community-based efforts is critically important to Parks & People – and a lot of fun, too! Together with the communities, the foundation works to nurture children and provide them with reading and enrichment activities, as well as sports and recreation activities.
Port Discovery, Children’s Museum of Baltimore
Port Discovery Children's Museum offers a safe, fun and educational experience for our young students. The museum features hands-on exhibits and programs that encourage problem solving and creative thinking. Port Discovery offers an afterschool enrichment program for local providers with students in K-3rd grade.
Salisbury Zoo
The Salisbury Zoo provides naturalistic enclosures for species native to North, Central, and South America. The zoo's Education Department offers programs that promote an understanding and appreciation of wildlife and encourage the protection of animal populations, the preservation of habitats, ecological balance and diversity.
Sultana Projects
Each year more than 15,000 students of all ages take part in a unique educational experience with Sultana Projects. Whether sailing on the decks of the 1768 schooner Sultana or studying the Chesapeake's incredible history and environment through a Sultana classroom curriculum unit, students gain a greater appreciation for the national treasure that is the Chesapeake Bay.
Village Learning Place
The Village learning Place is a community library and learning center that provides free access to information, resources, and educational programs to promote literacy, cultural awareness, and lifelong learning.
Walters Art Museum
The School Programs Department provides real and virtual educational resources that make the Walters’ collections accessible to the K-12 school community in Maryland. The museum partners with schools throughout Maryland to provide professional development and resources to integrate the arts into the K-12 core curriculum.
Ward Museum
The most comprehensive collection of wildfowl carving in the world features antique working decoys and internationally acclaimed contemporary sculpture and painting. The Ward Museum offers school tours and educational programs for children. Activities like soap carving, bird watching and Environmental Reading entertain children in a variety of age groups.