In The News

05/02/2013
Summit School Names Building for Founder at Gala
03/13/2013
MSP Teaches Summit School 7th Graders About Drinking and Driving
12/26/2012
Dr. Joan Mele-McCarthy, Summit's Head of School, graduates from Leadership Maryland.
12/04/2012
Chesapeake BaySavers Funds Field Trip for Local School
11/20/2012
Local School's SGA Donates Backpacks, Supplies
10/02/2012
What is Dyslexia? How can we test for it?
06/03/2012
Dr. Jane Snider of The Summit School Receives TWIN Award
05/16/2012
Dr. Joan A. Mele-McCarthy selected for Washington Post’s Distinguished Educational Leadership Award
04/12/2012
The Summit School celebrates learning differences awareness day
03/29/2012
Local Student Triumphs over Dyslexia
02/15/2012
Leadership Maryland selects Dr. Joan A. Mele-McCarthy for it's 20th Anniversary Class - The Class of 2012
02/14/2012
Summit School in Edgewater Jumps for a Cure
01/23/2012
Students compete in FIRST LEGO League robotics contests
01/11/2012
Executive Function Workshop at Summit
10/28/2011
The Summit School's 7th Annual Golf Tournament
10/05/2011
During Tough Economic Times: Family Donates One Million Dollars to a Non-profit
09/22/2011
The Summit School announces The 2011 Zelma Wynn Symposium Series
09/10/2011
The Summit School’s Literacy Counts Project
07/06/2011
Dr. Jane R. Snider awarded Brava! Women Business Achievement Award
05/04/2011
Summit's Gutterball Gala is featured in the What's Up Annapolis Blog!

Summit's Gutterball Gala is featured in the What's Up Annapolis Blog. Click here to read about it.
05/04/2011
Around South County - Local Teachers Motivate Students

Around South County: Local teachers motivate students Click here to read the story.
02/12/2011
Edgewater's Summit School raises money for Haiti

Click below to read the article from the Edgewater-Davidsonville Patch. Click here to read the article.
12/25/2010
My Time: Summit School joins 'Call for Coats'

Summit School joins 'Call for Coats'

 

 

The students shown, from left, are Noah Ramsey-Lucas, Sean Harris and Rachel DeVore. These students are in Summit’s Student Government Association and helped organize the coat drive.


View this article in The Capital
12/22/2010
Around South County: Local robotics team moves on to state competition

The Summit Stallions report a recent huge success for The Summit School Robotics Team, said Melanie D. Sipple, director of development and marketing at the school.The team is advancing to the state level competition in February in the first LEGO League. "This is truly an exceptional win, as this is our first year ever having a robotics team and our first competition," Sipple reported. "For our team to be chosen as one of six teams out of 16 to move forward, this is a huge accomplishment for them."This year's competition's theme was "Body Forward," with a biomedical engineering focus. The competition judging criteria was based on a robotics mission, a research project, the robot design and team work."Students are really excited about the win," Sipple said. "It is just amazing that students in grades five through eight are learning and competing at such a high technical level! This is also a great tribute to what students with learning disabilities can accomplish."The Edgewater school, at 664 E. Central Ave., describes its mission as "serving bright students with dyslexia and other learning differences." For information, visit www.thesummitschool.org. View this article in The Capital.
12/14/2010
Summit's Dr. Jane Snider named one of Capital Style's Five Women of the Year.
11/11/2010
Summit School Supports the Food Bank

 

Summit School students proudly display food items donated to the Anne Arundel County Food Bank as part of the Kids Helping Kids Project. Pictured from left to right are Junior Student Government Association members Claire Mackes, Logan Koch, Casey Reynolds, and Jordan Beasley.
 
10/11/2010
The Summit School To Simulcast The Prestigious Dyslexia Foundation Conference

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For more information contact:
 
Nancy Rhodes, Outreach Coordinator
(410) 798-0005 ext. 147
Nancy.rhodes@thesummitschool.org
Cindy Edson, Development Assistant
(410) 798-0005 ext. 158
Cindy.edson@thesummitschool.org
 
The Summit School To Simulcast The Prestigious Dyslexia Foundation Conference
 
Geared for Teachers, Parents and Speech/Language Pathologists who want to hear the latest information on Practical Applications and Scientific Foundations on Literacy, Reading and Dyslexia, The Dyslexia Foundation Conference is held annually on the campus of Harvard Medical School.
 
The Summit School will broadcast the conference live, in its entirety, on Friday, October 15th from 8:30am-4:15pm on the school campus in Edgewater, Maryland.
 
Featuring opening and closing remarks by The Summit School’s head, Dr. Joan-Mele-McCarthy, this prestigious event includes medical and educational experts in the field on what works best in teaching reading and what the current research is telling us.
 
This simulcast is open to the public and free of charge to attend. Because of limited seating, advance registration is required by contacting The Summit School (410) 798-0005. ASHA CEU credit is available to Speech-Language Pathologists for a $25 fee.
 
About The Summit School:
Founded in 1989, The Summit School is a private, not-for-profit, coeducational day school serving bright students in grades 1-8 with dyslexia and other learning differences. The Summit
 
School offers an integrated, mainstream curriculum emphasizing interactive learning and specialized instruction in reading, math and written language. Highly skilled teaching professionals cultivate each child's strengths using a multi- sensory approach to foster literacy and interactive learning. Outside the classroom, students participate in a wide range of activities including athletics, student government, clubs and community service programs. Summit students successfully transition to area mainstream high schools and often are role models for their peer group. The school also offers diagnostic testing, tutoring, teacher training and a summer camp. Recently, the Summit School was awarded the Annapolis & Anne Arundel County chamber of Commerce’s “Non-Profit of the Year” award. The school is located in Edgewater, Maryland.
 
About the Dyslexia Foundation:
The Dyslexia Foundation, a non-profit organization, was established in 1989 to identify and assist children with dyslexia: to establish higher levels of learning through specialized programs promoting better reading. The Dyslexia Foundation achieves their goals by promoting scientific breakthroughs in the early detection, prevention and remediation of dyslexia and related reading difficulties, by disseminating new research findings related to dyslexia and related reading difficulties, and by deploying new evidence-based approaches to families and practitioners to ensure that individuals with dyslexia learn to read successfully and take their rightful place in society.
 
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10/07/2010
The Summit School Partners with Boys and Girls Club and Stanton Center

 

It has now been three summers that children from the Boys and Girls Club have been able to attend the Summit School Camp, an academic camp offering intensive instruction in reading, math and written language the month of July. This summer the Stanton Center was also included. The funds for this project come from a grant from the HSC foundation in D.C., from USInternet, as well as Severn Savings Bank.
 
Dr. Jane Snider, Summit’s executive Director, has sought the funds to bring the specialized education Summit offers to children who are unable to attend the school. She is hoping to build a scholarship fund large enough to bring children from these centers as enrolled students during the school year.
 
This initiative is part of a project entitled Literacy Counts, which now has the funds from the Wood Foundation, Check Foundation and Har Spruill Foundations to bring tutors from Summit to the centers to teach students after school. The tutorial project began the last week of September and will continue through June 2011. Dr. Snider will be seeking the funds to continue the camp project and tutorial projects in 2011, as well. 
 
08/25/2010
Summit Administrators in Chesapeake Family magazine

Dr. Jane R. Snider, Executive Director and Dr. Paula McCormick, Public School Liaison were contributors to a recent article published in the August issue of Chesapeake Family. To read the article, please click here.
06/30/2010
Summit announces new Head of School

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:
Donna Sage, Director of Development
410-798-0005 ext. 143
 
THE SUMMIT SCHOOL NAMES NEW HEAD OF SCHOOL
 
EDGEWATER, MARYLAND – The Board of Directors of The Summit School has announced that, as of July 1, 2010, Dr. Joan Mele-McCarthy will become The Summit School’s new Head of School assuming the responsibilities of administrative and fiscal management in addition to her current programmatic responsibilities.
Since 2005, Dr. Mele-McCarthy has served as the school’s Director of Education. Prior to this position, Dr. Mele-McCarthy served as a Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Special Education and Rehabilitation Service (OSERS) in the U.S. Department of Education.  She has served as a clinical and academic faculty member at several universities and she owned and directed a multidisciplinary pediatric private practice. She is the 2006 recipient of the Rolland Van Hattum Award, an honor given by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation (ASHF), the charitable affiliate of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, to a speech-language pathologist who made a significant contribution to a school.  She currently serves on numerous national and regional boards, lectures regionally and nationally on topics related to students with learning differences, and has authored articles on education policy.
Founded in 1989 by Dr. Jane R. Snider, The Summit School is a private, coeducational not-for-profit school for bright students in grades 1-8 with dyslexia and other learning differences. For the past 21 years, Dr. Jane R. Snider, Founding Head, has led the school. She will continue to direct Summit’s marketing and development work under the title of Executive Director.  In addition, The Summit School provides a full range of educational, tutoring, consultative and evaluation services, and summer camp to the community.  The Summit School is located at 664 East Central Avenue in Edgewater, Maryland.  For additional information, please call 410-798-0005 or visit www.thesummitschool.org.