064 - How COVID-19 Has Changed a Baltimore Public School

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

News, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Schools are scrambling to figure out education during the COVID-19 pandemic. Matt Hornbeck, principal of the top-rated Hampstead Hill Academy—a Pre-k-8 public school in southeast Baltimore city—says instruction is only part of the challenge: technology gaps, trying to reach vulnerable students, and the trauma of a sudden separation from friends and teachers are unprecedented issues to address. Hornbeck talks to Dr. Josh Sharfstein about how Hampstead Hill is trying to take care of its school community, and how they're preparing for the next period of uncertainty.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Public Health On Call, a new podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
0:12.7	Our focus is the novel coronavirus.
0:15.2	I'm Josh Sharfstein, a faculty member at Johns Hopkins, and also a former secretary of Maryland's health department.
0:21.6	Our goal with this podcast is to bring evidence and experts to help you understand today's
0:26.9	news about the novel coronavirus and what it means for tomorrow.
0:30.5	If you have questions, you can email them to public health question at jhh.edu.
0:36.3	That's public health question at jh.hu.edu for future podcast episodes.
0:42.5	Today, I speak with Matt Hornbeck, principal of Hampstead Hill Elementary Middle School
0:47.9	in Baltimore City, about the challenge of education in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
0:53.6	Principal Hornbeck provides nightly updates for
0:55.9	parents, has raised thousands of dollars for grocery gift cards, and relies on teachers and other
1:01.5	staff who themselves are home with multiple children. Let's listen. Principal Hornbeck, thank you so
1:08.1	much for joining me. Can you tell us a little bit about Hampstead Hill Academy? Sure. Thank you, Dr. Sharfstein. Hampstead Hill Academy is a pre-K through
1:15.5	eighth grade school in southeast Baltimore City, serving 859 students in grades pre-K through eight.
1:22.2	We are demographically about 40% Hispanic, 40% white, 20% African American, and we have about a 65% free lunch student population and about 100 staff members supporting and providing for those students and their families.
1:39.3	Now, I know I've read about your school in the paper because you've gotten some academic awards, Is that right? We have. We're the number one performing school in the city for the second year in a row. And that's due to a lot of great work. But I have to be honest that there's great work happening in every school all over the city. And we're excited to be a part of that. And you've been at Hampstead Hill for how long?
2:01.7	I'm finishing my 17th year.
2:03.7	Wow.
2:04.4	And it's really been my life's work.
2:06.3	And it's a great blend of policy and practice.
2:09.3	So in those 17 years, you haven't seen anything like the coronavirus pandemic.
2:14.0	No, gosh.
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