252 - A Principal Gets Ready to Reopen During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Matthew Hornbeck, principal of Hampstead Hill Academy—a K-8 public school in Baltimore City—talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the challenges of virtual learning, the excitement and fears of teachers and staff, and plans to reopen for in-person learning in the coming weeks. They also talk about how the vaccine might make a difference in giving confidence to reopen, and how some teachers are centering the wellbeing of students and their families in their decision to get vaccinated.
KEYWORDS: child health; student life; pandemic response
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 3, a Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department. |
| 0:19.6 | Our goal is to bring scientific evidence |
| 0:22.4 | and experience to the public health news of the day through informative interviews with scientists, |
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| 0:34.4 | or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question |
| 0:38.7 | at jh.edu. |
| 0:41.1 | That's public health question at jh.u.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:47.3 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of public health on call. |
| 0:50.9 | Today, Matthew Hornbeck, principal of Hampstead Hill Academy, a K-8 public school in |
| 0:55.9 | Baltimore City, speaks to Dr. Josh Scharstein about the challenges of virtual learning, the fears |
| 1:01.8 | of teachers and staff, and plans to open up in the coming weeks. Might the vaccine make a difference |
| 1:07.3 | in giving the confidence to reopen schools, Principal Hornbeck thinks yes. |
| 1:11.9 | Let's listen. |
| 1:13.7 | Thank you very much, Principal Hornbeck, for joining me again on the podcast. |
| 1:17.8 | How are things going at Hampstead Hill Academy? |
| 1:20.5 | Thank you for having me, Dr. Sharstein. |
| 1:22.6 | It's a pleasure to talk with you again. |
| 1:24.3 | Things are going well. |
| 1:25.8 | We're very hopeful about the return, the resumption of in-person |
| 1:30.6 | instruction for all students at some point this school year, which is very exciting. So right now, |
| 1:37.1 | how many children do you have coming to school? There's no one in school right now. We have a number of |
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