Responsive Classroom

[Anonymous]

Other than Burgundy Farm and Lowell, what other area schools take a Responsive Classroom approach?

[Anonymous]

Most private schools I've visited use Responsive classroom. Several of the public schools I know of also use the curriculum, which has generally gotten very positive feedback.

[Anonymous]

Sheridan School

[Anonymous]

I think Murch is using the Responsive Classroom. Although it just sounds like a lot of jargon to me.

[Anonymous]

Grace Episcopal. I don't know all the ins and outs but it seems to work well.

http://www.responsiveclassroom.org/about/aboutrc.html

[Anonymous]

DC Bilingual and Hyde elementary both use responsive classroom curriculum

[Anonymous]

Mann, Beauvoir, NPS, St. Pat's, Potomac all use it too.

[Anonymous]

What is an example of a school that does NOT?

[Anonymous]

The well-known traditional types of schools don't seem to use it, being WES, Bullis, St. Albans, NCS, Landon, Holton Arms.

[Anonymous]

We toured 7 schools for K and they all claimed to use it. Honestly, I'm getting sick of hearing about it. I was at a party recently with several ladies with kids in different schools and they were all trying to outdo one another on the point of which school was able to "do" responsive classroom best. I think many schools "use" it. But, the schools are all very different, so their implementation (and interpretation) of it is different as well.

[Anonymous]

Responsive classroom drives me batty. There are a few really decent principles contained within RC, but they're not at all unique to the program. In fact, anyone with a bit of common sense and/or a decent grasp of educational (or parenting) theory will already be doing most of the things.

So... basically you have these few solid principles with a lot of pretty fluff dressed atop them. I'm not saying RC is BAD, just... overblown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We toured 7 schools for K and they all claimed to use it. Honestly, I'm getting sick of hearing about it. I was at a party recently with several ladies with kids in different schools and they were all trying to outdo one another on the point of which school was able to "do" responsive classroom best. I think many schools "use" it. But, the schools are all very different, so their implementation (and interpretation) of it is different as well.

That's probably very, very true. So, where is it (or its principles, really, dispensing with the label -- which as others point out can easily just be trendy fluff) best implemented? i.e., which schools seem really committed to it rather than just stating "oh yes we do that too"? At least the most traditional schools are upfront about rejecting this approach. Harder to sort out the rest, isn't it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Grace Episcopal. I don't know all the ins and outs but it seems to work well.

http://www.responsiveclassroom.org/about/aboutrc.html

The one in Virginia? Or GEDS?

[Anonymous]

Grace Episcopal Day School in Maryland.

[Anonymous]

Barnesville School in Maryland does.