BASIS DC is Looking to Expand to K-4

[Anonymous]

I’m so happy this is being put forward as an option - will do my best to show my support. We have plenty of schools in DC that cater to all needs - like, all of them. Why should only the wealthy kids in NW have access to a high quality and rigorous elementary education, where more resources are devoted to exceeding grade-level expectations? Middle income and poor kids should have at least one school available to them that can give them a leg up in life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If interested, please sign up for a session. http://info.basised.com/dc-k4

I’d love to see the curriculum for “Engineering” in kindergarten.

Is it a marketing gimmick?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If interested, please sign up for a session. http://info.basised.com/dc-k4

I’d love to see the curriculum for “Engineering” in kindergarten.

Is it a marketing gimmick?

Have you heard of Legos or building toys?

Obviously no experience with the model, but having 2 teachers in the classroom from K-4 is a plus. https://www.basised.com/academics/curriculum/grades-1-4-curriculum/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know the City needs to serve at risk kids. But we also needs to serve all kids including kids who are advanced and are ready to start at basis in earlier years. Not every school can serve every kid. Not every kid is cut out to handle advanced STEM work. thats ok. You don't throw out the entire idea just because some kids are ready or will never be ready. We need as many options for all kids in DC as possible. its so shortsighted to assume every single kid can get what they need at one place.

This, and most ppl outside of NW DC would agree. I'm on the Hill and I'd put my kid in Basis K in a second.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If interested, please sign up for a session. http://info.basised.com/dc-k4

I’d love to see the curriculum for “Engineering” in kindergarten.

Is it a marketing gimmick?

Have you heard of Legos or building toys?

Obviously no experience with the model, but having 2 teachers in the classroom from K-4 is a plus. https://www.basised.com/academics/curriculum/grades-1-4-curriculum/

Yeah, a marketing gimmick. Don’t most of your average preschools have Legos or building toys?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If interested, please sign up for a session. http://info.basised.com/dc-k4

I’d love to see the curriculum for “Engineering” in kindergarten.

Is it a marketing gimmick?

Have you heard of Legos or building toys?

Obviously no experience with the model, but having 2 teachers in the classroom from K-4 is a plus. https://www.basised.com/academics/curriculum/grades-1-4-curriculum/

Who calls blocks “engineering”? That takes real chutzpah!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know the City needs to serve at risk kids. But we also needs to serve all kids including kids who are advanced and are ready to start at basis in earlier years. Not every school can serve every kid. Not every kid is cut out to handle advanced STEM work. thats ok. You don't throw out the entire idea just because some kids are ready or will never be ready. We need as many options for all kids in DC as possible. its so shortsighted to assume every single kid can get what they need at one place.

This, and most ppl outside of NW DC would agree. I'm on the Hill and I'd put my kid in Basis K in a second.

Would you still if the demographics end up looking like KIPP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know the City needs to serve at risk kids. But we also needs to serve all kids including kids who are advanced and are ready to start at basis in earlier years. Not every school can serve every kid. Not every kid is cut out to handle advanced STEM work. thats ok. You don't throw out the entire idea just because some kids are ready or will never be ready. We need as many options for all kids in DC as possible. its so shortsighted to assume every single kid can get what they need at one place.

This, and most ppl outside of NW DC would agree. I'm on the Hill and I'd put my kid in Basis K in a second.

Would you still if the demographics end up looking like KIPP?

Um, notice the crickets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The BASIS private school in McLean is accepting 2 year olds. I don’t think they know what they are getting into nor do they care about getting things right. It’s pathetic.

“Engineering” for 2’s. Lol. It’s never too early for a little propaganda. But the main thing is to get parents in ASAP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP - are you familiar with their elementary program, especially the homework policies? I’ve observed it but at their McLean school while with an older BASIS DC student visiting a teacher transferred from DC to VA. It was different from 5-12.

Not sure I would support it for DC, but I think any opposition should be fact-based.

Shouldn’t everything be fact-based?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If interested, please sign up for a session. http://info.basised.com/dc-k4

I’d love to see the curriculum for “Engineering” in kindergarten.

Is it a marketing gimmick?

Have you heard of Legos or building toys?

Obviously no experience with the model, but having 2 teachers in the classroom from K-4 is a plus. https://www.basised.com/academics/curriculum/grades-1-4-curriculum/

Who calls blocks “engineering”? That takes real chutzpah!

I mean, yeah, they are promoting their school. I'm not sure using a term like "engineering" for elementary is any more ridiculous than claiming a PK3 program is STEM focused (like my son's matched DCPS does). Or that a day care that simply employs Spanish speaking workers is "bilingual immersion" (I actually find this laughable when people say their 18 mo kid in day care is an immersion program...). I don't think anyone believes their 1st grader is doing regressions, but having projects that help teach mechanics and spacial reasoning through hands on activities is both age appropriate and does fall in the realm of engineering.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know the City needs to serve at risk kids. But we also needs to serve all kids including kids who are advanced and are ready to start at basis in earlier years. Not every school can serve every kid. Not every kid is cut out to handle advanced STEM work. thats ok. You don't throw out the entire idea just because some kids are ready or will never be ready. We need as many options for all kids in DC as possible. its so shortsighted to assume every single kid can get what they need at one place.

This, and most ppl outside of NW DC would agree. I'm on the Hill and I'd put my kid in Basis K in a second.

Would you still if the demographics end up looking like KIPP?

Of course I would. What on earth?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was interested in this the last time they tried it. What are they doing differently this time around to ensure success?

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was interested in this the last time they tried it. What are they doing differently this time around to ensure success?

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There is an info session tomorrow (5/4) at 12:30 pm (there was also one at 7:30 this morning). That's probably the best place to get details ahead of when they submit something formal to the PCSB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was interested in this the last time they tried it. What are they doing differently this time around to ensure success?

Bump

There is an info session tomorrow (5/4) at 12:30 pm (there was also one at 7:30 this morning). That's probably the best place to get details ahead of when they submit something formal to the PCSB.

Did anyone go?