News & Events
Upcoming Changes to Virtual Learning Schedules
AACPS is updating their plan and schedules. Please visit aacps.org/spring2021, where you will find the following links to the details of the changes: Virtual Schedules Change After Winter Break Spring 2021 Learning Model Choices View Schedules

Monarch Academy Annapolis Launches Clubs on Black History, STEM, and Fitness
Monarch Academy Annapolis, a public contract school with Anne Arundel County Public Schools, introduced Black History 365, a student extracurricular club that looks at the Black History 365 textbook presenting an inclusive account of American history, focusing on...

The Children’s Guild Alliance’s Transformation Fall 2020 Newsletter Recognizes Our Resilience
We are collectively living through one of the most sweeping health crises in our history. This issue of Transformation shares how The Children’s Guild Alliance has relied on empathy and action to persevere during these challenging times. The holidays are difficult for...

Monarch Academy Annapolis Receives $50,000 to Provide Meals to Families and Thanksgiving Turkeys
Monarch Academy Annapolis, a public contract school with Anne Arundel County Public Schools, received a $50,000 grant from the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development’s Maryland Nonprofit Recovery Initiative to fund healthy meal distributions free to...

Andrew Ross to Step Down as President and CEO of The Children’s Guild Alliance
Andrew Ross will step down as president and CEO of The Children’s Guild Alliance on June 30, 2021, after 26 years. The Children’s Guild Alliance, a nonprofit organization based in Baltimore, serves children, families and child-serving organizations. When Ross joined...

The Children’s Guild Alliance Releases 2020 Annual Report
The Children’s Guild Alliance experienced a year like no other in its 67-year history. Our amazing team responded to the COVID-19 crisis with extraordinary compassion, energy, creativity, and commitment. Through these difficult and challenging times, we pulled...

Monarch Academy Annapolis Expands Team to Build Inclusive School Culture
Monarch Academy Annapolis, a public contract school with Anne Arundel County Public Schools, named Miguel Vicente as bilingual student recruitment and community engagement liaison and Keith Rowel as family and student support specialist. Vicente and Rowel will work to...
Monarch Academy Annapolis Receives $773,997 in State Grants
Grants fund school’s new pre-K, resources for virtual learning Monarch Academy Annapolis received two competitive grants from the state of Maryland: a $600,000 Prekindergarten Expansion Grant funding the school’s new full-day pre-K and a $173,997 Governor’s Emergency...

2020 Kids First National Conference to Address the Needs of the Whole Child During COVID-19
The Children’s Guild Alliance in collaboration with Towson University’s department of special education will present the inaugural Kids First National Conference on Oct. 26 and 27, 2020, from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. EDT each day. The virtual conference will equip...

New Issue of Transformation Highlights our COVID-19 Response
The coronavirus pandemic has brought many challenges to life as we know it. Our new issue of Transformation highlights how The Children’s Guild Alliance has responded and continues to put kids first during these unprecedented times. We share stories about our staff...