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Cyberbullying Challenges in a Pandemic World

October 26, 2021

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Over the years, we have written about bullying in the age of the internet and social media. In the age of the coronavirus, however, cyberbullying has become even more prevalent. During the first year of the pandemic, school took place online, and with that, cyberbullying cases increased dramatically. L1ght, an…

Homeschooling: Part of School Choice

August 5, 2021

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Over our 22 years serving parents who want to send their children to non-public schools, a few have chosen to homeschool. And since this segment represents less than 2 percent of our students in any given year, I have not focused on it much in conversations or in writing. COVID…

Hopes and Dreams

July 1, 2021

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We recently reached out to some of our CSFB alumni scholars who are in high school to learn about their future plans, hopes, and dreams. Here are just a few of the responses we received. “My dream is to work in the field of Neuroscience. I want to be in…

Is Religion a Factor in Choosing a School?

April 28, 2021

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Is religion a factor in choosing a school? For some, the answer is yes, and for others, no. I recently had a conversation about the similarities of non-public schools. Full disclosure – the person I was speaking with was looking for a fight! He asked me to tell him what…

No one goes it alone

March 17, 2021

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“What people see you do may not be remembered; what they hear you say may be forgotten; but how they feel your intervention in their times of need will forever be remembered.”― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders’ Watchwords Yesterday I watched a young child on the playground next to our dog park…

Snow (but no snow) days

February 16, 2021

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I love snow. It takes me back to my childhood – sledding down the middle of our street, sugar on snow – a New England maple syrup tradition that seems gross now given what actually falls from the sky – and hot chocolate with marshmallows. I realized yesterday that snow days…

Change is challenge.

January 14, 2021

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In reading a bit about change and exploring information from groups that ranged from addressing global health and food crises to corporate restructuring, I found a common theme that I believe is relevant to all of us especially during this time: sharing resources. It demands that we acknowledge, first and…

We Met, and Surpassed, Our Giving Tuesday Goal!

December 9, 2020

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Giving Tuesday is an international day of charitable giving at the beginning of the holiday season. This year, Giving Tuesday was December 1, 2020. A generous set of donors put up $17,000 in matching funds to help CSFB reach its goal. This meant all other donations (up to $17K) would…

$5.47

November 24, 2020

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On Sunday, November 22, I watched 60 Minutes. They covered a story about an NIH-funded research study called “90+.” The University of California Irvine is trying to learn all it can from a group of men and women who are older than 90 years. This story reminded me of the…

2020: A Year Like No Other

October 27, 2020

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CSFB’s FY 2020 Annual Report It has truly been “A year like no other.” That is also the theme of this year’s Children’s Scholarship Fund Baltimore Annual Report. CSFB schools and families have faced unprecedented shifts and challenges this year due to COVID-19. In spite of it all, our students,…