Dear Readers, It is hard to believe that this year’s Guide to Baltimore Independent Schools marks our fifth edition. The coronavirus pandemic has left public and private schools in a state of flux with both wanting to do the best for students and teachers while offering as normal of a school year as possible. https://www.glenelg.org/coronavirus-response, Plan: Virtual learning for the first trimester.
Baltimore private schools have been operating in crisis mode since mid-March.
Susan Gerardo Dunn is the founding editor and publisher of Baltimore Fishbowl. https://www.stjohnspds.org/apps/news/article/1257446, St. Martin’s in-the-Field Episcopal School, Plan: In-person with precautions. Check out the digital version above, and read our Notes from the Editor, below, to learn more about this year’s guide. Upper schoolers will return to school three days per week, middle schoolers four days per week, and lower school boys five days per week. https://www.severnschool.com/return-to-school-plan, Plan: In-person with virtual learning option. Baltimore Fishbowl has compiled a list of area independent schools, including links to them, with their current plans for the fall. For many of Maryland’s independent schools, the optimal solution is to offer in-person classes, but most have plans in place for a combination that includes in-person learning and online classes. Baltimore Lab School. Plan: Distance learning to start. https://www.jemicyschool.org/admission/welcome-from-admission, Plan: In-person with staggering start times and dismissals of each division to enable social distancing during these high-density time periods: Students will return to campus in phased re-entry, from youngest to oldest students. https://greenspringmontessori.org/. https://www.saintjamesacademy.org/reopening-fall/, Baltimore agencies and shelters battle homelessness amid pandemic, ‘Sleep Out Challenge’ raises money and awareness for homelessness. https://tcshighschool.org/, Plan: In-person with modified schedules.
Boarding students are expected to return to the school in the latter part of September and are expected to provide a negative COVID test from within 72 hours prior to their arrival to campus or certification that they have completed a 14-day quarantine, in Maryland, before their arrival to campus.
Plan: Blended. Hear from them how, despite everything, they remain committed to their schools and define what makes each one unique.
High school will be in-person 2 days per week and online 2 days per week with livestream real-time classroom instruction.
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CTRL + SPACE for auto-complete. Longtime school leaders collaborate with newer administrators to create robust programs and address the everchanging climate of our world.eval(ez_write_tag([[300,250],'baltimorefishbowl_com-medrectangle-3','ezslot_0',118,'0','0'])); As always, at the heart of all of this work, is the students: the scholars, the athletes, the thespians, the artists and the inventors. Students will return to campus in phased re-entry, from youngest to oldest students. While such plans are a disappointment to many, it’s an understandable solution as the schools seek to strike the balance between returning to campus and addressing public health concerns. https://www.brynmawrschool.org/, Plan: Calvert plans to re-open and the school has done extensive work to reconfigure the overall layout of the lower and middle schools to create adequate social distancing in classrooms.
Plan: Instruction for the 1st quarter (September 1-November 5, 2020) of the 2020-2021 school year will be virtual.
https://www.harfordday.org/covid19, Plan: In-person. Plan: In person, with a plan to return to online learning if necessary. https://www.highlandsschool.net/, Plan: In-person at both campuses.