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On Monday, Deb Consugar, the Upper School math chair at the Summit School in Edgewater, was honored at the Education in Excellence banquet and named 2013 private school Teacher of the Year. At the ceremony, Consugar choked back tears as she thanked her family, her students and her colleagues. The Annapolis and Anne Arundel County [...]

From Edgewater’s Summit School: On Saturday, April 13, The Summit School will celebrate the work of Founding Executive Director, Dr. Jane R. Snider.  The event will take place at The Westin Annapolis and will include a live auction, cocktails, raffles, dinner, music, dancing, and a few surprises! The evening will kick-off with a cocktail reception [...]

The short-list for Teacher of the Year candidates just got shorter when 17 public school educators and four private-school teachers, five from South County, were named as semifinalists. The four public and one private school teachers from South County schools are: Lori-Ann Balzano, a second grade teacher at Davidsonville Elementary School Danielle Bender, third grade [...]

About two dozen Summit School sixth graders are participating in an iPad pilot program. On Thursday morning, they got to go on a scavenger hunt to take photos with their new devices. The scavenger hunt ended with a party in the art room. These sixth grade students will be using the iPads in all aspects [...]

From The Summit School in Edgewater: The Summit School Student Government Association (SGA), using funds they collected from last month’s car wash and bake sale, bought backpacks and the supplies for The Heart of America Foundation’s Operation: BuddyPack. Three of The Summit School SGA officers went to Kmart in Edgewater and purchased toiletries, school supplies, [...]

On Saturday, Nov. 3, The Summit School will present the Zelma Wynn Symposium Series, New Generations of High-Tech Youth: How We Teach Them  and Parent Them. The event runs from 8: 30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and features guest speaker Dr. Larry Rosen.  According to a news release from the Summit School: At the seminar, [...]