Truesdell Education Campus for PrK or beyond?

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Anonymous wrote:Do you mean Tools of the Mind? That and Creative Curriculum are common in DCPS PK programs.

Ah, maybe that is it. My husband had to remind me of what it was called, and we came up with theory of the mind. I just remember it focused more on emotional and social awareness rather than traditional a traditional schooling path.

Yeah, it's good. I think most or maybe all DCPS do something like that.

Lol. My prek teacher wife calls Tools of the Mind the early childhood curriculum for administrators who don't know anything about early childhood education. She hates it.

The teachers at my school call it "Fools of the Mind."

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you mean Tools of the Mind? That and Creative Curriculum are common in DCPS PK programs.

Ah, maybe that is it. My husband had to remind me of what it was called, and we came up with theory of the mind. I just remember it focused more on emotional and social awareness rather than traditional a traditional schooling path.

Yeah, it's good. I think most or maybe all DCPS do something like that.

Lol. My prek teacher wife calls Tools of the Mind the early childhood curriculum for administrators who don't know anything about early childhood education. She hates it.

Interesting. What curriculum does she favor?

In her opinion, a mix is best - play based, student directed. Kids are into skunks in your classroom? Make skunk hand puppets and go to the zoo and talk to the small mammal people. Your students love the grocery store? Kit out dramatic play as a grocery store set up. Focus on where the kids take you.

She likes Reggio approaches but doesn't think you need to be super rigid about the rules. She tolerates creative curriculum and says its worlds better than Tools. (15 years experience including masters degree, fwiw. and she loves her job)

[Anonymous]

OP I don't know anything about Truesdale, but I know that early stages has a history of putting kids in classrooms that aren't the best fit for them. Make sure you ask the proposed sped teacher what type of students do best in their program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you mean Tools of the Mind? That and Creative Curriculum are common in DCPS PK programs.

Ah, maybe that is it. My husband had to remind me of what it was called, and we came up with theory of the mind. I just remember it focused more on emotional and social awareness rather than traditional a traditional schooling path.

Yeah, it's good. I think most or maybe all DCPS do something like that.

Lol. My prek teacher wife calls Tools of the Mind the early childhood curriculum for administrators who don't know anything about early childhood education. She hates it.

The teachers at my school call it "Fools of the Mind."

Huh. This is interesting to me. My child loved it and we did to. He still talks about Play Plans in 2nd grade!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you mean Tools of the Mind? That and Creative Curriculum are common in DCPS PK programs.

Ah, maybe that is it. My husband had to remind me of what it was called, and we came up with theory of the mind. I just remember it focused more on emotional and social awareness rather than traditional a traditional schooling path.

Yeah, it's good. I think most or maybe all DCPS do something like that.

Lol. My prek teacher wife calls Tools of the Mind the early childhood curriculum for administrators who don't know anything about early childhood education. She hates it.

The teachers at my school call it "Fools of the Mind."

Huh. This is interesting to me. My child loved it and we did to. He still talks about Play Plans in 2nd grade!

NP. I think the teachers matter way more than the curriculum, but I'm from Germany where we don't use the words "curriculum" and "preschool" (which we call Kindergarten - children's garden) in the same sentence.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you mean Tools of the Mind? That and Creative Curriculum are common in DCPS PK programs.

Ah, maybe that is it. My husband had to remind me of what it was called, and we came up with theory of the mind. I just remember it focused more on emotional and social awareness rather than traditional a traditional schooling path.

Yeah, it's good. I think most or maybe all DCPS do something like that.

Lol. My prek teacher wife calls Tools of the Mind the early childhood curriculum for administrators who don't know anything about early childhood education. She hates it.

The teachers at my school call it "Fools of the Mind."

Huh. This is interesting to me. My child loved it and we did to. He still talks about Play Plans in 2nd grade!

As neither your nor your kid are experts, I don't care so much what you think. Any halfway decent teacher is going to make prek fun, regardless of what terrible curriculum you have to use.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you mean Tools of the Mind? That and Creative Curriculum are common in DCPS PK programs.

Ah, maybe that is it. My husband had to remind me of what it was called, and we came up with theory of the mind. I just remember it focused more on emotional and social awareness rather than traditional a traditional schooling path.

Yeah, it's good. I think most or maybe all DCPS do something like that.

Lol. My prek teacher wife calls Tools of the Mind the early childhood curriculum for administrators who don't know anything about early childhood education. She hates it.

The teachers at my school call it "Fools of the Mind."

Huh. This is interesting to me. My child loved it and we did to. He still talks about Play Plans in 2nd grade!

As neither your nor your kid are experts, I don't care so much what you think. Any halfway decent teacher is going to make prek fun, regardless of what terrible curriculum you have to use.

It's nice that you're an expert, but I absolutely just care about my kid's experience.
Please show me research that shows it makes an actual difference to anyone but "experts".

[Anonymous]

Why is ECE ok in DCPS but not the higher grades. I hear this over and over. What is not transferring over from ECE to Kindergarten?

[Anonymous]

Why is ECE ok in DCPS but not the higher grades. I hear this over and over. What is not transferring over from ECE to Kindergarten?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is ECE ok in DCPS but not the higher grades. I hear this over and over. What is not transferring over from ECE to Kindergarten?

Because in ECE, the academics don't matter, as far as I am concerned.

It's not true though that the higher grades aren't ok in DCPS overall. There are academically high-performing schools in DCPS as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you mean Tools of the Mind? That and Creative Curriculum are common in DCPS PK programs.

Ah, maybe that is it. My husband had to remind me of what it was called, and we came up with theory of the mind. I just remember it focused more on emotional and social awareness rather than traditional a traditional schooling path.

Yeah, it's good. I think most or maybe all DCPS do something like that.

Lol. My prek teacher wife calls Tools of the Mind the early childhood curriculum for administrators who don't know anything about early childhood education. She hates it.

Interesting. What curriculum does she favor?

In her opinion, a mix is best - play based, student directed. Kids are into skunks in your classroom? Make skunk hand puppets and go to the zoo and talk to the small mammal people. Your students love the grocery store? Kit out dramatic play as a grocery store set up. Focus on where the kids take you.

She likes Reggio approaches but doesn't think you need to be super rigid about the rules. She tolerates creative curriculum and says its worlds better than Tools. (15 years experience including masters degree, fwiw. and she loves her job)

Is she in a public school? My experience with DCPS was that it was very rigid, even for the 3s. It's too much for some kids, with tons of transitions, different classrooms, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:The principal it very well-regarded. She won one of the coveted Reubenstein principal awards a few years ago.

+1

My kids are at a nearby school, and when I've had the chance to meet Truesdell's principal she's had her stuff together.

Same. They also turned out in force for the Ward 4 forum with Chancellor Wilson.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is ECE ok in DCPS but not the higher grades. I hear this over and over. What is not transferring over from ECE to Kindergarten?

Why? Because after ECE parents realize color. They no longer want brown or black teachers, nannies or kids around their snowflakes. They hide behind terms like they want Montessori and Dual language as an out to exit DCPS but we all know what it is.

These are the same parents that claim DCPS schools are too rigorous but yet pick schools based on test scores. Make up your mind!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The principal it very well-regarded. She won one of the coveted Reubenstein principal awards a few years ago.

+1

My kids are at a nearby school, and when I've had the chance to meet Truesdell's principal she's had her stuff together.

Same. They also turned out in force for the Ward 4 forum with Chancellor Wilson.

Then it sounds like all this school needs is a group of neighborhood parents to form a PTO and get involved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is ECE ok in DCPS but not the higher grades. I hear this over and over. What is not transferring over from ECE to Kindergarten?

Why? Because after ECE parents realize color. They no longer want brown or black teachers, nannies or kids around their snowflakes. They hide behind terms like they want Montessori and Dual language as an out to exit DCPS but we all know what it is.

These are the same parents that claim DCPS schools are too rigorous but yet pick schools based on test scores. Make up your mind!

True!