401 - School in the Time of COVID: A Tour Of Hampstead Hill Academy
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Principal Matt Hornbeck of the award-winning Baltimore City public school Hampstead Hill Academy has been on the podcast to talk about how the school community coped with closures, virtual and hybrid learning, scheduling changes, learning losses and more. Today for a very special episode, Principal Hornbeck invites Dr. Josh Sharfstein to visit the school in person and see how things are going. Note: This episode was recorded before vaccines were authorized for children 5-11 years old.
Special thanks to Hannah Bennett and Caroline Wang for co-producing this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 4 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former Commissioner of Health in Baltimore City. |
| 0:20.0 | Our goal is to bring |
| 0:21.7 | scientific evidence and experience to current topics in public health through engaging interviews |
| 0:27.1 | with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public health officials, clinicians, and more. |
| 0:32.8 | If you have ideas or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question at jh.edu. |
| 0:40.4 | That's public health question at jhhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:46.1 | Today, it's back to school, in-person school, at Hampstead Hill Academy, an award-winning |
| 0:52.7 | Baltimore City Public School. |
| 0:55.6 | We've spoken to principal Matt Hornbeck many times during the pandemic on the podcast. |
| 1:00.9 | This time, he invited me to come and see the school in action. |
| 1:05.2 | It was a lot more than I had expected. |
| 1:08.2 | Let's listen. |
| 1:10.4 | Matt, how you doing? I'm great, Josh. Thanks for coming out today. Welcome to Hampstead Hill Academy. |
| 1:15.9 | I said principal Hornbeck. I can say Dr. Sharfstein as well. So, looks like recess is well |
| 1:23.4 | underway here. Yes, we've got the sixth graders out today. We run 10 recess shifts |
| 1:29.7 | every day, and the sixth graders are out on this beautiful sunny day in southeast Baltimore, |
| 1:34.8 | enjoying time outside together. It definitely looks like they're having a good time right now. |
| 1:41.4 | We have a lot of different activities going on, football, soccer. Some of the kids |
| 1:45.5 | are in the playground, just hanging out, enjoying being outside. They do get mask breaks, and so it's |
| 1:51.6 | nice to take the mask off for a few minutes when you're outside. That was a very high-kicked soccer ball. |
| 1:58.4 | You ever get those on the roof? We do. I was just up on the roof this morning |
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