Inspired Teaching Learning Showcase

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Yes, I was just going to mention this happens when my child was at Bridges. It sounds like a lovely community at IT.

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Anonymous wrote:Agree with 13:51, I know of 2 schools in DC that do almost the exact same thing as part of their expeditionary curriculum. It is not a performance piece or teachers presenting work. I follow IT threads because I am interested in sending my child to the school-- but there are a couple of IT boosters that make the school seem desperate.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, I was just going to mention this happens when my child was at Bridges. It sounds like a lovely community at IT.

Thanks. Our family was thinking about moving to the suburbs, but now we've decided to stay in the city. If you live in the suburbs and the local school isn't a good fit for your child, you have almost no options outside of going private.

The lottery process here in DC for Charters and OOB slots is crazy (I think we can all agree on that), but there really are some great public school options in DC now. If IT hadn't worked out for my DC, I would have been happy to consider Cap City, Two Rivers, or EL Haynes, as well as, OOB spots at the DCPS schools that are doing well east and west of the park.I know there are people who disagree, but I can only go by my experience and my DC (older kid) is so geeked and excited about school now, I just have to smile when I think about it because last year this time I was pulling my hair out.

The road this year at IT has not been smooth by any stretch of the imagination (although smoother than one might imagine for a first year charter). I have not agreed with every decision or all of the policies made by the administration. However, in the end, I keep coming back to how happy my DC is. And then I go to events like the Learning Showcase last night and I see what a great community of involved families the school has (as a PP noted, there must have been 90% turn out last night). Moreover it's an unbelievably diverse community made up of blacks, whites, latinos, and asians that runs the socioeconomic spectrum. When I take it all into consideration, I can't help but feel good about the leap of faith we made last year in enrolling our DC.

IT doesn't really have a hook like Stokes with its language immersion or Haynes with its year round school. So, a lot of people don't get what this school is about. They hear the name and think its corny fluff stuff. But it really does come down to inspired teaching. If you are sincerely considering IT and want to know what it's about , forget DCUM: find a current IT parent and ask them if you can talk to their kid about school, then watch the child's eyes light up.