311 - A Baltimore Public School Reopens
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
We last heard from Matt Hornbeck—longtime principal of Hampstead Hill Academy, a K-8 school in Baltimore city—in the fall for an update on how the school community was faring with online learning. Hornbeck returns to the podcast to talk with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the school's recent reopening to more than 500 students for in-person instruction. Does it feel the same?
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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, |
| 0:27.8 | community leaders, policy experts, public health officials, clinicians, and more. If you have ideas |
| 0:34.4 | or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question at jh.edu. |
| 0:41.0 | That's public health question at jh.h.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:47.3 | Today, I catch up with principal Matt Hornbeck of Hampstead Hill Academy, |
| 0:52.8 | an award-winning public middle school in Baltimore City. |
| 0:56.4 | The kids are back in school, but is it the same as it ever was? Let's listen. |
| 1:02.5 | Principal Matt Hornbeck, thank you so much for coming back to the podcast. What is the situation |
| 1:07.7 | now at your school? Thank you, Dr. Sharstein. I'm so glad to be with you. |
| 1:13.7 | We have more than 500 students coming to in-person instruction, and we're very excited about it. |
| 1:20.0 | I was observing a classroom, a sixth grade classroom yesterday where they were engaged in a conversation |
| 1:25.2 | about forms of government and monarchy, democracy, tyranny, oligarchy, |
| 1:31.3 | and just a joy to listen to students and teachers engage each other together in person. |
| 1:37.8 | So we are back. |
| 1:41.0 | And we have about five, excuse me, we have about 500, I should say, in person and about |
| 1:46.3 | 300 still working remotely. Got it. How many months were you off from in-person instruction? |
| 1:55.5 | Depending on the grade 12 to 14. 12 to 14 months? |
| 2:02.7 | Almost 14, yeah. |
| 2:04.9 | Wow. |
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