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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For my kid the availability of the sensory room and just playing on the playground has been enough for him.

[b]The only thing I don't like about CMI is the fact that it must implement the common core curriculum and give the many assessments that are required by the DCPCSB. [/b] The only way around this is to go private.  Also, the math instruction could be better but they are working on it, and you can always supplement as many of my friends with kids in private do anyway.  As public schools go, thumbs up all around.  You can't do better, in my opinion.  If I had to pick another public, I would pick Hearst (nice, diverse small school from what I know at Open House and from friends with kids there), but CMI's small class sizes, arts, language and emphasis on the whole child win out for our family.[/quote]

Can I ask, how do they/can they integrate different learning styles etc if they are held to the CC curriculum and tests? Is what distinguishes CMI more a matter of instruction (project-based, differentiated, experiential, catering to whole-child) than of curriculum (which presumably is common core)?

I actually would have the same question for ITS and/or any other school trying to implement a progressive curriculum within the constraints of common core. How does it actually work?

Thanks[/quote]

Common Core is actually standards (not a curriculum) so they basically state that a child needs to learn X, Y and Z for PK, but it doesn't set out how the school should teach X, Y and Z.  So, how Creative Minds (which focuses on arts and language integration and the whole child) teaches X, Y and Z vs. how ITS or YY chooses to teach X, Y and Z - will be completely different.

In theory - when tested - all of the children should be able to know X and Y and Z.  But the CMI child would have learned it via art and music and with Chinese and Spanish classes.  The YY child will have learned it in Chinese immersion.  The MV child will have learned it in a exploratory Spanish program.

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