Responsive Classroom?

[Anonymous]

Does anyone's child go to a school that uses this teaching approach? Just curious about how it works.

[Anonymous]

Murch ES in DC is a Responsive Classroom school

[Anonymous]

Kind of a mixture of community building/sharing and logical consequences discipline

[Anonymous]

Here is a link to the website:

http://www.responsiveclassroom.org/

Cap City PCS uses this approach and it works well.

[Anonymous]

Aren't most schools doing this to some extent?

[Anonymous]

Our child goes to a private school that really designs its whole curriculum around Responsive Classroom. To me, OP, the heart of it is the age-appropriate expectations and the social-emotional foundation that it provides for everything that happens at school. It's a great feeling to know that your 5 year-old's teacher really *gets* 5 year-olds, and that the school and teachers view the social-emotional curriculum as so central to the children's development. I've spent quite a bit of time at the school this year and my sense is that Responsive Classroom provides for an orderly and very happy kind of environment that not only facilitates learning but truly promotes social growth. Our DC has had a wonderful experience in that environment and absolutely loves going to school.

[Anonymous]

RS teaches that students should do the right thing because they have empathy for their classmates and take responsibility for their own learning. The problem is some schools are trying to simultaneously implement other school environment programs that emphasize the opposite. PBS, for example is a strategy that rewards students for good behavior, with script, and DJ parties or the Capital Gains program which pays cash for attendance, good behavior, homework completion, etc.