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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]charter schools can innovate at the building level; DCPS is following curricular and programmatic mandates from downtown[/quote]

So then what makes one DCPS different from another? Other than demographics, of course, and how good the principal is at hiring and managing the staff?[/quote]

There are a lot of little differences, such as how the day is structured, whether classes rotate to teachers or have one teacher per class, whether they partner with student teachers or have extra aids, special programming, additional resources for focus schools (math , reading, science focus -- a temporary thing usually, but it stays with the school culture), whether they have things like contests, science fairs, school traditions and celebrations, etc. How they approach classroom management and discipline on the day to day stuff, uniforms, what the teachers focus on for PD and internal development, whether the teachers teach outside of and beyond the standard curriculum and how they approach and supplement that curriculum. A thousand little difference that can create a different culture at each school.[/quote]

This. Our experience at Inspired Teaching has been different than DCPS. While they cover common core at Inspired, the breadth of how they do it and what they do on top of it is not what we experienced at a DCPS. There were weeks at a time where the majority of my kid’s day was spent working on their Shakespeare production close to PARCC timing.[/quote]

Just to clarify, the PP response was about differences among DCPS schools; I have no knowledge of charters.[/quote]

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