When each school began to plan their important work based on AACPS’s 2018-2023 Strategic Plan during the spring of 2018, school teams reflected on their school culture, their community, and the key factors contributing to student achievement.  Each school was then asked to consider which Strategic Plan Indicators would have the greatest positive impact for their students. School leadership teams selected indicators and developed plans to focus and guide their efforts.  Please come with us on our journey as we describe why, what, and how we do our work to serve our students and families of our school.

Welcome to Waugh Chapel!  Located in Odenton, Maryland, Waugh Chapel Elementary is an International Baccalaureate (IB) School with 650 students in Pre-Kindergarten through Fifth grade, and our school community encompasses neighborhoods in Odenton and parts of Gambrills. Waugh Chapel is also the proud host of two Alternate Curriculum Classes, and the site for the Self-Contained special education class for the Arundel Cluster. We are a community school with a strong connection between staff and families, and each one of our students adds to our school culture! 

As an International Baccalaureate School, Waugh Chapel Elementary provides instruction through an interdisciplinary lens, and we seek to create units of inquiry that are relevant and rigorous for our students.  Each of our subject areas carry themes throughout the day so that connections between subject areas can be made, and eventually action can be taken.  Our students are taught to be part of the action cycle, which causes them to reflect on the problems of our world and to take action to solve these problems, either in small or larger ways.  Learning to be a part of the action cycle will grow our students into the global citizens that our world needs them to be.