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PP is wrong, all DCPS PKs are play based, including JOW. DCPS is pretty amazing across the board for PK because they have very high standards for the teachers -- the vast majority have a masters in early childhood education. I do think DCPS is more academic in K than some charters (depends on the charter). |
Nope, worksheets, homework, math, screens, testing. It’s pretty ridiculous in ECE what is coming down from central https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/180/1312777.page |
In whats schools has this been implemented specifically? |
My kids are at one of the named ECE programs and it has none of these things. I am a little bit skeptical of the single poster in that thread insisting this is everywhere while almost every other poster says it’s not their experience. FWIW ECE will no longer be run as centrally — at least not in non-T1 schools. ECE coaches are gone, for example. So even if they were going to try to institute this, good luck now. Our school is leaning into Reggio-related coaching and curriculum as the replacement. |
My kids experienced none of this and their Title 1 DCPS PK experience was a magical wonderland. That changes later, but I would recommend the PK wholeheartedly. Also agree that there is one poster declaring this repeatedly. |
I am not a poster that has declared this repeatedly (first time posting on this subject) but we experienced two different DCPS PK programs, both of them pretty highly regarded, and they were night and day in terms of incorporating play-based learning. I wouldn't have understood this if we hadn't had the comparison point of the other program. Sometimes you don't know what you don't know! |
OP here: 1. Yu Ying - 19% 2. DC Bilingual - 0% 3. LAMB - 0% 4. Stokes Spanish - 0% 5. MV8 - 10% 6. MVP - 65% 7. Stokes French - 0% Nothing - 6% |
Care to name the schools so parents can have it as a datapoint? |
OP here: 1. SWS - 2% 2. Maury (IB preference) - 12% 3. Apple Tree Lincoln Park - 45% 4. Two Rivers 4th St - 0% 5. Inspired Teaching - 0% 6. JOW - 14% 7. CHML - 0% Nothing - 27% I did not adjust for any classroom changes at Apple Tree, so if you're right then that's an over estimate that would increase your likelihood of landing at JOW. |
OP here: If you do this order: Latin 2nd Street - 9% (and this has been trending up) Latin Cooper - 43% (based on one year of data) The other way: Latin Cooper - 52% Latin 2nd Street - 0% |
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OP here, AKA the Lottery Nerd -
I think I'm all caught up (still waiting on a clarification from the poster who didn't tell me which Appletree, but besides that) so if I missed one, let me know! |
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Hi OP - here's our list for PK3, no preferences:
Appletree Spring Valley Marie Reed HD Cooke John Lewis Dorothy Height Military Road Early Learning Center Hyde-Addison Brightwood John Francis Stevens Early Learning Center Sheperd Apple Tree - Columbia Heights |
Pretty sure this is just swami. I'm pretty sure I know her too. |
Sure, there may be variation between people grams depending on teaching styles. But the PP is claiming that DCPS central office is forcing "worksheets, homework, math, screens, and testing" on PK classrooms. That's flatly wrong, as my kids are currently in a Title 1 PK and there is none of that except math, in that kids sing counting songs and are encouraged to play sorting games that help them learn to count, recognize shapes, etc. Play-based math. There are no screens or homework, and the only "testing" I know of is the evaluation teachers give to check for K readiness, which is done to ensure kids get extra support for pre-literacy or other K-readiness factors. If there are PKs in the city using screens and doling out homework and not engaging the kids in free play, those are choices being made at the teacher or school level and not consistent with our experience at all. Obviously a good idea to visit schools and talk to them about their teach by philosophy before you enroll, but no, DCPS is not forcing PK teachers to drill and test their kids or use screens in classrooms. |