3-04-2026 9:18am

Towson Schools Help

Ridge Ruxton School & West Towson Elementary School collaborate on service-learning project

On February 24, Ridge Ruxton School and West Town Elementary School collaborated on a service-learning project to benefit the Maryland Food Bank. Students from both schools, led by Sherri Fisher, Ridge Ruxton’s community school facilitator, and Kristen Zdon, a Grade 1 teacher and Student Government Association advisor at West Towson, lined up more than 650 boxes of cereal like dominos connecting their schools’ front doors and then set off a chain reaction knocking each box down.

“This was a great representation of the unity, collaboration, innovation, and passion that is shared between the two schools,”

said Dr. Heather Wooldridge, associate director of The Education Foundation of Baltimore County Public Schools, Inc. “The joy was palpable as students ran alongside the boxes as they fell.”

The foundation, in partnership with a grant from Safeway, donated approximately a third of the boxes for the event. All of the boxes of cereal have now been donated to the Maryland Food Bank.

"This was a great opportunity for our two school communities to come together to support a shared mission to help end food insecurity,”

said Fisher. “We were inspired by a similar event at Prettyboy Elementary this past fall. Their principal, Nicole Norris, gave us some great tips for success!”

West Towson Grade 4 students calculated that based on an approximate 103.7-meter distance between the schools and the need for at least 3 inches between each box they would need 475 boxes of cereal. In the end, 687 boxes were collected.

Donations came from families, community members, and offices across BCPS. “Thank you to The Towson Elks, The Education Foundation of Baltimore County Public Schools, Inc., the BCPS Office of Fiscal Services, and our generous community members,” said Fisher. “It was a wonderful opportunity for our school communities to come together in joyful service.”