So. Md Education News

News from the local county public and private schools and colleges.
Sisters Carolina and Oda Solms have honored their mother Melissa Ann Solms-Baruth by establishing a memorial scholarship fund in her name. The scholarship will financially assist College of Southern Maryland (CSM) students in all fields of study. Solms-Baruth, who passed away in 2014, was a dedicated mother and wife, as well as an avid photographer and waterfront real estate professional. In 2007, she began publishing Southern Maryland Woman magazine with her eldest daughter. The community...
Charles County Public Schools (CCPS) is hosting its annual fall chess tournament in person at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 24 at Thomas Stone High School. This year’s fall tournament is limited to chess players in Grades 4-12, as parents and family members will not be permitted to remain on site during the event. This is a precautionary measure to limit the amount of people inside of the playing area. Parents will be invited to watch the tournament virtually through Zoom with a limited panoramic...
Charles County Public Schools (CCPS) is looking for a few good people to serve on its middle school redistricting committee. The school system will select 11 parents to serve on the committee — two elementary, one high school and eight from the middle schools. Additionally, the Board of Education will select three community members for the committee, which also includes principals, county government planners and CCPS staff. The school system is starting a comprehensive middle school...
Rose Young ’20 Authors Paper in The Physics Teacher, Drawing on St. Mary’s Project Research Joshua Grossman October 02, 2020 - 12:56 pm October 02, 2020 The Physics Teacher, an academic journal on teaching, has published an article by Rose Young ’20, titled "Parenting and Physics: How to Support Physics Students Who Are Raising Children." The article, based on Young’s St. Mary’s Project (SMP) research, was featured as part of the journal’s special collection on "Sex, Gender, and Physics...
The College of Southern Maryland (CSM) announces that Associate Vice President of Marketing and Communications Avis McMillon has been selected to intern with the Achieving the Dream (ATD) Network. This internship is part of her doctoral program in Community College Leadership which she is pursuing at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va. McMillon is currently the associate vice president of marketing and communications at the CSM. In her CSM position, McMillon oversees all of CSM’s...
Westlake High School is hosting the SAT exam in person on Saturday, Oct. 3. Any student who is registered to take the exam at Westlake should follow the guidelines listed below. Students must wear a mask at all times while on campus. This includes the time they arrive on the Westlake campus to the time they leave the school campus. Students must observe social distancing. This includes maintaining a 6-foot distance from all other students and testing center staff while on school grounds...
The COVID-19 pandemic has cast a spotlight on professions that often don’t get to center stage. In the wake of closures and lockdowns, governors around the country deemed food service workers, healthcare providers, service industry employees and others “essential employees.” Key workers provide services that focus on health and safety. One of the critical jobs was building cleaning and maintenance — Charles County Public Schools (CCPS) has about 265 building service workers who are...
About a year ago, Anthony Forrest was brainstorming ideas to complete his Eagle Scout rank with the Boy Scouts. Forrest, an honor-roll student and junior engineering major at North Point High School, joined the Scouts program when he was a second grader at William B. Wade Elementary School. “I really wanted to try scouting and knew it was a good program and a lot of fun,” he said. Coupled with his interest to explore scouting, Forrest also was interested in learning about leadership and...
Professor of Music David Froom's Music Featured in Online Concert David Froom October 01, 2020 - 11:34 am October 01, 2020 While the ongoing pandemic has closed concert halls throughout the world, performers and presenting organizations are finding creative ways to stay active. The California Music Center, home to the Klein International String Competition, is creating and posting "Klein@Home Hour" online programs that celebrate their competition laureates. Debuting this coming Sunday...
The College of Southern Maryland (CSM) invites potential students to a virtual ‘Night of Engineering’ via Zoom Oct. 27 to learn about the college’s mechanical and electrical engineering degree programs, how to transfer to the University of Maryland and also how to earn job experiences at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) at Patuxent River Naval Air Station. Employment in architecture and engineering occupations is projected to grow 3 percent from 2019 to 2029, about...
Charles County Public Schools (CCPS) is offering on-site assistance Oct. 5-7 for Phase 2 registration. Assistance is available to any Charles County family with a child enrolled in CCPS who is eligible to return to school during Phase 2. Pending Board approval, CCPS plans to begin Phase 2 on Nov. 9. The on-site schedule is below. Appointments are not required. Interpreters of multiple languages will be available to support families. Monday, Oct. 5, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at John Hanson...
The College of Southern Maryland (CSM) recommences its 2019-2020 Benny C. Morgan Concert Series Saturday, Oct. 10 at 3 p.m. with a free virtual broadcast of American pianist Thomas Pandolfi. Maestro Pandolfi is recording a repertoire ranging from piano classics of Frederic Chopin to medleys of Broadway and popular songs of American composers Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin specifically for this series that will air on CSMDTube. American pianist Pandolfi is widely considered to be an...
Charles County Public Schools (CCPS) is adding a dinner meal and snack to its meal bags that already include a breakfast kit and lunch for children 2 to 18. The additional meals will be distributed starting Oct. 5 at the school system’s 17 meal sites. Parents picking up meals without their child present will need to show proof of a child’s age — like a student identification badge or copy of a report card. If the child is not or not yet enrolled in CCPS, and is not present during pickup...
Selected to Serve as NASPA Facilitator, Attends Harvard Higher Education Institutes, Authors Publication The College of Southern Maryland (CSM) Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs Dr. Mitchell A. Levy has achieved three major career milestones in 2020. Levy served as a contributing author for The Sage Encyclopedia of Higher Education (4th Ed.), David & Amey (Eds.) which was published in May, 2020 by Sage Publications, Ltd. He was selected to serve as an Associate Vice President...
Professor Jeff Eden Interviewed on the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Michael Bruckler September 28, 2020 - 4:07 pm September 28, 2020 Jeff Eden, assistant professor of history, has been featured and interviewed in an article by world news correspondent Lucas Vidigal on G1 (Globo), Latin America's largest news service. The article features Eden's commentary on the crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed region in the South Caucasus where violence has flared this week. This region, which is...
Charles County Public Schools (CCPS) and the Charles County Department of Health are collaborating to offer required vaccinations for students at no cost. Maryland law requires students to have up-to-date immunizations, but with some physician’s offices having altered schedules in effect to slow the spread of COVID-19, some students may not have received vaccinations yet. Sites will be set up at four CCPS schools with vaccines offered for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR), chickenpox...
Charles County Public Schools (CCPS) students enrolled in Advanced Placement (AP) classes can take the accompanying exam in May. Some colleges and universities provide students with course credit for achieving a score of 4 or higher on AP exams. Any CCPS student enrolled in AP classes this year interested in taking the course exam in 2021 must register and pay the exam fee by Nov. 6. A list of available exams is posted on the College Board website at...
Virtual Open House: 5 p.m. Oct. 5. Zoom. Join the College of Southern Maryland (CSM) to hear from our students, professors and leadership and see what makes CSM the right choice for reaching your goals. RSVPs are required to access Zoom information. Free. https://csmd.elluciancrmrecruit.com/Admissions/Pages/EventDetails.aspx?id=26ea2f34-95e8-ea11-a975-b03a26b277ba Mystical Monarchs: Virtual Monarch Butterfly Festival. 10 a.m. Oct. 3. Zoom. CSM hosts the annual fall migration of the Monarch...
The College of Southern Maryland (CSM) and St. Mary’s College of Maryland (SMCM) continue its 2020 ‘Informed, Engaged, Empowered = Ready – Set – VOTE!’ virtual series with “A Pledge to Truth and Civility” Oct. 8 event that focuses on the need for media literacy and civility in public discourse. The public is invited to join CSM Professor of Communications Michelle Christian, CSM Instructor of Media Studies and former journalist Cara Fogarty and SMCM Associate Professor of English and...
Dr. J. Scott Smith, Superintendent of Schools, 301-475-5511, ext. 32178 LEONARDTOWN, MD – The Board of Education of St. Mary’s County will hold a special meeting on Wednesday, September 30, with executive session beginning at 8:00 a.m., followed by an open meeting at 9:00 a.m. in the Board of Education Meeting Room, 23160 Moakley Street, Leonardtown, Maryland. Mask will be required, and social distancing will be enforced. The public may also watch the meeting live via...
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