653 - Back to School: How One K-8 School Is Getting Ready for the Fall
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Principal Matt Hornbeck of Hampstead Hill Academy, an award-winning public K-8 school in Baltimore City, returns to the podcast to talk with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about gearing up for school. They discuss how students fared academically last year—and how the school is preparing to address chronic absenteeism and mental health challenges this fall.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:05.9 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
| 0:16.3 | If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health question at jhhhu.edu. |
| 0:23.8 | That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:32.0 | This is Lindsay Smith Rogers. |
| 0:34.1 | Today, it's back to school, and we're checking back in with principal Matt Hornback of |
| 0:37.9 | Hampstead Hill Academy, a public school in Baltimore serving 900 students from kindergarten |
| 0:42.7 | to the eighth grade. He returns to the podcast to talk about the educational challenges after |
| 0:48.0 | the pandemic, including absenteeism and what his team is doing to help students feel like they |
| 0:53.2 | belong in school. Let's listen. |
| 0:56.2 | Matt Hornbeck, principal of Hampstead Hill Academy, it is great to see you back on public |
| 1:01.5 | health on call. Thank you so much, Josh. I'm glad to be here. I think we may have done five or more |
| 1:08.1 | podcasts with you over the course of the pandemic. The last one being an on-site |
| 1:12.3 | visit during the school year, full school building, all these kids running around. That was really a |
| 1:18.5 | sign that things were turning. Yes, that was a happy time and things have only gotten better and |
| 1:24.1 | better since we last saw you. So what's going on at Amstead Hill these days? |
| 1:29.3 | Well, we had a very good year. We did very well on the state assessments, even though we've got a lot |
| 1:34.6 | of work to do. We were heartened to see that the reading of math scores here at our school were |
| 1:40.0 | not as bad as we thought they would be. In fact, we're quite proud of them. And then we have |
| 1:45.2 | dozens of extracurricular programs and after school programming and summer programming, |
| 1:50.0 | where kids are in wonderful programs that feed the body and feed the soul. We've got lots of |
| 1:56.3 | great experiences for the students over the summer. What are some of your favorites? |
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