A STRONG ENDOW MENT
Calvert School continues to thrive thanks to the many alumni, parents, grandparents, and friends who support the School’s endowment. We are honored to share this comprehensive impact report, which highlights programs and experiences made possible by endowment donors.
The generosity of our community advances our academic mission and supports our accomplished students, teachers, and staff members in meaningful ways.
The strength of Calvert’s endowment allows us to:
• Provide financial aid for qualified students;
• Attract and retain faculty members with exceptional professional development opportunities;
• Inspire student expression and creative confidence through an enriching arts program;
• Integrate age-appropriate technology into our curriculum in various subjects;
• Bolster athletics for all ages;
• Offer once-in-a-lifetime experiential programming through the Institute for Leadership and Purpose.
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THE INSTITUTE FOR LEADERSHIP & PURPOSE
The Institute for Leadership & Purpose (ILP) uses the power of experiential and reflective learning to inspire tomorrow’s leaders to impact their communities and the world.
Grounded in Calvert’s mission, the ILP offers students and teachers opportunities to unite with community partners, explore meaningful outreach, and foster commitment to partnership, leadership, and innovation.
LEADERSHIP JOURNEYS
Immersive leadership journeys are an integral component of the ILP. During the 2023-2024 school year, the ILP proudly sponsored five experiential learning trips for Calvert Middle School students. Our community’s generosity not only ensures these opportunites are offered, but provides financial aid to students who could otherwise not afford the costs associated with these experiences.
In Fall 2023, more than 70 students participated in trips to Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia, The Island School in the Bahamas, Cochiti in New Mexico, and the Chilamate Eco Retreat in Costa Rica. A fifth group of 15 students will experience a Spring 2024 leadership journey to San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Led by Calvert chaperones, and in partnership with The World Leadership School, The Island School, and Experience Learning, Seventh and Eighth Grade students experience days of unplugged outdoor education and cultural immersion. Through these varied trips, Calvert students expand their global awareness, participate in different service opportunities, and engage in physical activities such as hiking, caving, and snorkeling.
Students study conservation, learn about ethnobotany, cacao farming, and diverse cultures amongst other adventures designed to reimagine learning while inspiring tomorrow’s leaders to impact communities near and far.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Engaging in service opportunities within the Baltimore community is an important focus for Calvert students. In November 2023, the entire school community contributed to 60 Thanksgiving meal baskets.
A group of Eighth Grade leaders organized, packaged, and delivered the feasts to three local organizations, including Paul’s Place, where they spent several hours volunteering.
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Scan here to view video recaps of programming made possible through the ILP.
BRIDGING BALTIMORE
Bridging Baltimore is a meaningful ILP program that our community values. Students and staff with diverse backgrounds gather twice monthly to build relationships and discuss relevant socioeconomic issues. They split sessions between the SAFE Center (SAFE Alternative Foundation for Education) in Southwest Baltimore and Calvert School. Through these peer relationships, students may reflect and grow to become purposeful world leaders.
MLK, JR. DAY OF SERVICE
In January, members of the Calvert community gathered in the Middle School Gymnasium to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with a day of service in partnership with the non-profit organization Rise Against Hunger. More than 400 individuals of all ages packaged over 30,000 meals of rice, soy, and vegetables. Volunteers weighed, sealed, and boxed these meals, which were delivered to families facing food shortages around the world.
Calvert is committed to fostering engaged student leaders with a mission, and philanthropic support of the Institute for Leadership & Purpose makes this possible.
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FINANCIAL AID
Endowed gifts in support of financial aid provide funding to students who may not otherwise have the resources to afford the full cost of a Calvert education.
Endowed scholarships provide a permanent asset from which students can receive financial support for tuition, which includes daily lunch, school supplies, and more to ensure a successful academic experience.
These life-changing funds help to ensure that the Calvert community remains diverse, inclusive, and welcoming to families of all means.
Like many peer independent schools, Calvert continues to see an increase in demand, from both new and current families, for financial aid.
Many families prioritize the education of their children above all else, and a strong endowment allows our School to assist deserving students. Calvert works together with families, often exhausting all avenues, to make children’s academic aspirations become a reality,
One family receiving financial assistance recently shared how thankful they are for Calvert, and reflected on the growth it has inspired in their child, saying, “We have entrusted Calvert with the monumental responsibility of educating our daughter, and the fruits of those labors have exceeded our expectations exponentially.”
“We are extremely grateful for the young woman that Calvert is helping to shape, guide, and inspire,” the family added. “We no longer consider sending her to Calvert as a ‘choice.’ That would be like saying you have a choice to breathe. This is where she belongs, and we can’t fathom sending her anywhere else.”
Gifts to endowed scholarship funds ensure that stories like these continue to be told, and that students of all backgrounds thrive throughout their Calvert education.
211 $2,660,590 awarded on average =$12,800 students receiving need-based scholarships 2023 - 2024
awarded in financial aid
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THE ARTS
Calvert students are clever, curious, and creative. Lower and Middle School students have abundant opportunities in music, theater, painting, sculpture, digital and visual arts, art history, and other modes of self-expression.
Thanks to endowed art funds, our curriculum at Calvert School continues to grow and evolve. Through this support, Calvert recently invested in new risers, sound panels, tubano drums, frame drums, and mallets to enhance our music program.
In a world with increasing digital demands upon our attention, the arts give us a chance to physically, kinetically engage with our thoughts, feelings, and community. “ ”- Alexis Tantau, Middle School drama teacher
“Calvert students are tremendously creative. When they engage with the arts, they have a chance to flex that creativity and discover new and different ways to use it,” Middle School drama teacher Alexis Tantau said.
“Our visual and performing arts programs give students the opportunity to make creative decisions in a tactile way. They work with clay, play instruments, put themselves physically in someone else’s shoes and imagine what it is like to be that person,“ Ms. Tantau shared.
The interest and dedication of endowed art fund donors allow students of all ages many opportunities to develop and maintain a love of the arts throughout their lives.
The addition of fresh supplies, instruments, and materials expands programming and opportunities in and out of the classroom as our students learn new skills, take artistic risks, and develop a lifelong love of the arts.
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE JOHN WORK GARRETT ’36 SUMMER STUDY GRANT
Endowed funds supporting faculty and staff allow us to engage and retain exceptional teachers. At a time during which there is a nationwide teacher shortage, this support is more impactful than ever before. Calvert is proud to support our faculty’s personal and professional growth through lifelong learning opportunities made possible by the community’s support of faculty and staff endowed funds.
Calvert is honored to highlight an endowed faculty fund that has had a positive impact on our educators for many years. The Garrett Grant, endowed in honor of John Work Garrett ’36, a Second Lieutenant, Air Corps, A.U.S. pilot, affords Calvert teachers the opportunity to travel, grow in enriching ways, and bring authentic experiences back to their students. Last summer, this fund sponsored five of Calvert’s valued teachers as they traveled to different areas of the world.
STORYTELLING WITH INDIGENOUS GROUPS
Eighth Age homeroom teacher Ashley Barnett traveled to Minnesota to learn and collect stories from the Ojibwe and Lakota tribes. The purpose of her trip was to strengthen Eighth Age retelling skills in reading and writing.
“I learned that storytelling could bring a community together. Storytelling is used to communicate narratives that are often not heard. Storytelling can also be used as knowledge to help communities understand one another,” she said.
“I have used what I learned in the classroom this year, and I am already seeing a positive impact on my students and in my professional development as a teacher.”
AN IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE IN ANDALUCIA
Emma Burkhart, Lower School Spanish teacher and librarian, spent ten days in southern Spain, studying Spanish and immersing herself in the culture of Andalucia.
Most of her time was spent in the coastal city of Cadiz, where she took an intensive Spanish language course with other adults from around the world. Mrs. Burkhart found it extremely stimulating and fun to be a student again, especially in that environment.
Mrs. Burkhart said, “The trip was an inspiring and broadening experience for me and has reinvigorated my commitment to teaching students about the many exciting cultures of the world and the importance of exploring those cultures through both reading and travel. My hope is that hearing about my travels and delving into books about different countries will foster the kind of open-minded curiosity in our students that will help them grow into global citizens.”
ENHANCING GEOGRAPHY PROGRAMMING
Sixth Age homeroom teacher Caroline Marris traveled to Kigali, Rwanda in August in hopes of enriching our Expedition Calvert geography program in the Sixth Age.
Ms. Marris toured the city of Kigali, trekked with mountain gorillas in Volcanoes National Park, explored Akagera National Park on a two-day game drive safari, and visited Lake Kivu. The main purpose of her trip was to explore the wildlife and environments of Rwanda to enhance the Sixth Age’s understanding of the region.
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PICTURED: History teacher Justin Short finds former students Masiah ’22 and Caleb ’22 in Alabama. Sixth Age teacher Caroline Marris stands cliffside in Rwanda, where she saw gorillas and other animals. Eighth Age teacher Ashley Barnett photographs a mural in Montana.
Ms. Marris said, “Not only was I able to bring back the stories of my own experiences and adventures, I was able to show the students woven baskets, carved walking sticks, and animal prints made on banana leaves. It was an incredible opportunity and the chance of a lifetime to see and experience this part of the world!”
BUILDING ON BRITAIN AND FRANCE
Middle School Latin teacher, Jeff Snow had the pleasure of viewing the statue of Boudica pictured on the right. The statue of Boudica, the Queen of the Iceni, commissioned in the 1850s, was influenced by Queen Victoria whose youthful visage can be seen reflected in bronze. Although the statue was completed in 1885, it was not raised in its current location until 1902, one year after the death of Queen Victoria. Today, the bronze sits on the Westminster Pier across the street from the British House of Parliament. The statue stands as a warning to those in Parliament to always consider the needs of the British people before all else.
Mr. Snow will introduce his class to Boudica in their Latin text this spring. The literature of the ancients has few stories of strong women and yet our text tells the tragic story of one of the first British heroines written about by several authors of the time.
Mr. Snow shared, “Before we head off on our March Break this year, I will have a chance to provide a richer, more meaningful backdrop to the story we will read in our text. This is just one of the many connections I was able to make this past summer while traveling for three weeks in Britain and France, a trip that would not have been possible without the generosity of the Garrett family.”
NINE DAYS ON THE CIVIL RIGHTS TRAIL
Justin Short, Middle School history teacher, took an immersive tour of sites on the Civil Rights Trail. Over the course of nine days in June, he traveled to Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia to visit landmarks associated with the civil rights movement, a topic studied in his Eighth Grade course.
On his journey from Nashville to Atlanta, he went to churches, courthouses, schools, and other locations where key events in the movement transpired. He saw firsthand the locations that students learn about in his class, such as the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, and the building where Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his final speech in Memphis.
During his travels, Mr. Short conversed with guides, sought out historical markers, and toured several museums, including the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine
Before returning home, Mr. Short visited Athens, Georgia to see where Charlayne Hunter walked as she began life at the University of Georgia as one of its first two African American students; her story is one the Eighth Graders read as part of their studies. The informative and powerful experiences Mr. Short had on his trip will serve his teaching for years to come.
We are grateful for the philanthropy of the Garrett family and all faculty and staff endowment donors whose support continues to be felt within the walls of our classrooms and beyond.
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Photo by Caroline Marris
Photo by Jeff Snow
Motel in Memphis, the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, and the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta.
TECHNOLOGY
Calvert’s endowed technology funds are designated to support enhanced, age-appropriate technology use and instruction in our classrooms. These special funds, given by Calvert donors, provide the financial resources needed to expand our technology program. Our goal is to enrich each student’s learning experience and ensure cyber safety for our entire School community.
ENRICHING THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE
Calvert students receive technological training and tools appropriate for their age and ability.
This technology curriculum is interwoven with our core subject areas, such as science, history, reading, math, and the popular Expedition Calvert geography program. By linking technology with academics, we support and enhance what students learn in the classroom.
Additionally, we emphasize computational thinking to help students formulate problems and brainstorm solutions.
ENSURING CYBER SAFETY
According to the 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report published by Verizon, 82% of breaches involve a human element, including social attacks, errors, and misuses. For this reason, Calvert invests significant time and resources into maintaining a robust and secure infrastructure and teaching cybersecurity best practices.
Our multi-layered approach for securing the School’s technology infrastructure includes 24/7 managed threat response, multi-factor authentication for employees, and cybersecurity awareness training and phishing simulations.
Access to resources through technology is only the first step. As these tools continue to evolve, it’s even more important for our employees and students to learn and practice the fundamentals of responsible use.
- Craig Luntz, Director of Technology
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ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS
The Janice A. Bosley Family Scholarship Fund
Louise Este Bruce ’36 Scholarship
Benjamin R. Cadwalader ’34 and Eleanor B. Cadwalader Scholarship
The France-Merrick Scholarship Fund
The William and Carolyn Gorman Scholarship Fund
The Hathaway Family Scholarship
The Kahlert Scholarship Fund
The Laura Neilson Lee ’52 Scholarship Fund
The Anne Gordon Mumford ’56 Scholarship Fund
The Lawrence P. Naylor III Scholarship Fund
The Karl J. Nelson & Elizabeth Schmeisser Nelson ’33 Scholarship Fund
The Schapiro Family Fund
The Lindsay Shea Memorial Scholarship Fund
The Rembrandt Foundation Scholarship Fund
The Stewart Scholarship
The Lawrence T. P. Stifler Scholarship Fund
The Marian Trescher Waldhausen ’44 Scholarship Fund
The Horatio Hall Whitridge & Gracia Grieb Whitridge Scholarship
The Mathew ’06 & Abigail ’10 Young Memorial Scholarship Fund
ENDOWED FACULTY & STAFF FUNDS
The Deborah D. ’44 and Charles T. Albert ’42 Memorial Fund
The Alevizatios/Austin Fund
The Apgar Award for Excellence in Instruction THANK
The Ann and Harvey Clapp III ’51 Internship Fund
The Class of 2006 Staff Award
The Class of 2008 New Teacher Development Fund
The Edward Woodman Brown Faculty Endowment Fund
The Emily Kenny Reeves Fund
John Work Garrett ’36 Memorial Fund
The Harris Fund
Kiddie Calvert Endowment Fund
The Matthew ’06 & Abigail ’10 Young Memorial Award
OTHER ENDOWED/RESTRICTED FUNDS
Berman Arts Fund
The Bolton Endowment for the Arts
The W. P. Carey Foundation Fund
The George H. Cosman Chair in Astronomy and other Sciences
Dunning Memorial Fund
The Keith T. Flaherty’83 ILP Fund
The Class of 2009 Health and Wellness Fund
The Class of 1981 Tucker Hebb Memorial Fund
Hopkins Lower School Art Fund
The Nambda Cha Calvert Lacrosse Fund
The Leitch and Cook Award
The Class of 1985 Carter Burwell Roulette ’85 Technology Fund
The Sanger/Naylor Technology Fund
The Sheridan Foundation Endowment
John L. ‘Luke’ Stone ’86 Leadership Fund
The Class of 2011 Visiting Speakers Fund
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