Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 23:21     Subject: Re:Which schools are most progressive?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Edmond Burke


Burke is 6-12 and OP asked for schools with kindergarten.


Edmond Burke is listed on the progressive schools dc web site.


It still doesn't offer kindergarten.


They are so progressive they are considering admitting Mensa qualifying K students direct to Grade 6. However, the K aged MS students may not call teachers by their first names as the older students do.


Also the K aged MS students are not required to declare their preferred pronouns until they turn 10.
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 23:17     Subject: Re:Which schools are most progressive?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Edmond Burke


Burke is 6-12 and OP asked for schools with kindergarten.


Edmond Burke is listed on the progressive schools dc web site.


It still doesn't offer kindergarten.


They are so progressive they are considering admitting Mensa qualifying K students direct to Grade 6. However, the K aged MS students may not call teachers by their first names as the older students do.
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 23:16     Subject: Which schools are most progressive?
Waldorf

Some Montessori schools

Homeschool co-ops
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 22:43     Subject: Re:Which schools are most progressive?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Edmond Burke


Burke is 6-12 and OP asked for schools with kindergarten.


Edmond Burke is listed on the progressive schools dc web site.


It still doesn't offer kindergarten.
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 22:33     Subject: Re:Which schools are most progressive?
Anonymous wrote:Progressive education is a pedagogical movement that began in the late nineteenth century and has persisted in various forms to the present. In Europe, progressive education took the form of the New Education Movement. The term progressive was engaged to distinguish this education from the traditional curricula of the 19th century, which was rooted in classical preparation for the university and strongly differentiated by social class. By contrast, progressive education finds its roots in modern experience. Most progressive education programs have these qualities in common:

• Emphasis on learning by doing – hands-on projects, expeditionary learning, experiential learning
• Integrated curriculum focused on thematic units
• Strong emphasis on problem solving and critical thinking
• Group work and development of social skills
• Understanding and action as the goals of learning as opposed to rote knowledge
• Collaborative and cooperative learning projects
• Education for social responsibility and democracy
• Integration of community service and service learning projects into the daily curriculum[2]
• Selection of subject content by looking forward to ask what skills will be needed in future society[3]
• De-emphasis on textbooks in favor of varied learning resources
• Emphasis on lifelong learning and social skills
• Assessment by evaluation of child's projects and productions


Based on this - Saint Andrews Episcopal School. They have a Center for Transformational Teaching and Learning that emphasizes much of these strategies.
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 22:32     Subject: Re:Which schools are most progressive?
Progressive education is a pedagogical movement that began in the late nineteenth century and has persisted in various forms to the present. In Europe, progressive education took the form of the New Education Movement. The term progressive was engaged to distinguish this education from the traditional curricula of the 19th century, which was rooted in classical preparation for the university and strongly differentiated by social class. By contrast, progressive education finds its roots in modern experience. Most progressive education programs have these qualities in common:

• Emphasis on learning by doing – hands-on projects, expeditionary learning, experiential learning
• Integrated curriculum focused on thematic units
• Strong emphasis on problem solving and critical thinking
• Group work and development of social skills
• Understanding and action as the goals of learning as opposed to rote knowledge
• Collaborative and cooperative learning projects
• Education for social responsibility and democracy
• Integration of community service and service learning projects into the daily curriculum[2]
• Selection of subject content by looking forward to ask what skills will be needed in future society[3]
• De-emphasis on textbooks in favor of varied learning resources
• Emphasis on lifelong learning and social skills
• Assessment by evaluation of child's projects and productions
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 22:32     Subject: Re:Which schools are most progressive?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Edmond Burke


Burke is 6-12 and OP asked for schools with kindergarten.


Edmond Burke is listed on the progressive schools dc web site.
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 22:31     Subject: Which schools are most progressive?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just curious which schools that have kindergarten are considered most progressive? Thanks!


K you say?

Montessori is progressive; can go as fast or slow in student driven math, phonics/reading, science, daily skills. Very child directed though for k-4 will be at state standards or above.

Waldorf is play/nature based progressive for several years.

Gds K is play based, no reading groups or homework etc all play based learning and heavy on integrating its social studies throughout its lower school subjects.


Progressive is a specific educational philosophy. Montessori is not progressive. It's its own educational philosophy. That's not a criticism. It's a fact.
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 22:28     Subject: Re:Which schools are most progressive?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Georgetown Prep and Georgetown Visitation


Umm, no


Wow, you are so dumb you can’t even recognize parody when you see it.
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 22:25     Subject: Re:Which schools are most progressive?
Anonymous wrote:Georgetown Prep and Georgetown Visitation


Umm, no
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 22:17     Subject: Re:Which schools are most progressive?
Georgetown Prep and Georgetown Visitation
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 22:16     Subject: Re:Which schools are most progressive?
Saint Albans and NCS
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 22:15     Subject: Re:Which schools are most progressive?
Anonymous wrote:Edmond Burke


Burke is 6-12 and OP asked for schools with kindergarten.
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 21:39     Subject: Re:Which schools are most progressive?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Edmond Burke


Wasn’t Edmund Burke a conservative?

😭😭😭


The definitions of conservative and liberal are so shifting as to be meaningless by themselves. It’s tribalism. Whatever my party wants is the conservative/liberal path, depending on your perspective. Trump, for example, wasn’t particularly conservative on a lot of traditional economic issues (like free trade, for example). Bill Clinton was quite conservative in terms of criminal punishment, international trade, and welfare benefits. Obama was really a centrist but was portrayed as some raging socialist.

But to answer your question, when someone says a progressive school, I assume they mean a progressive educational philosophy. One that is student-centered with self-directed learning, meeting kids where they are, projects etc. That is in contrast to a traditional or classical education. A progressive pedagogy can still have conservative political leanings (not that Burke does).
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 21:33     Subject: Which schools are most progressive?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Holton is NOT progressive. It’s very traditional.



It’s teaching method maybe traditional but all of the ideas, thoughts and curriculum coming out of that school are very, very progressive.


You are mixing up two different things. “Progressive school” is a term of art which involves a teaching pedagogy (child centered v. teacher centered). You are talking about politics and ideas in their curriculum which is something completely different.