s*******y
发帖数: 26 | 1 我们夏天计划搬来波士顿。目前在加州上的小学非常满意，希望能找到类似的。
现在的学校比较“小众“，注重whole child development,尤其socio-emotional
development。不留作业，不参加考试，但是学术仍然很好。教学方法是hands-on,
project-based. 课程中还有烹饪，园艺，西班牙语等。家长积极参与。我跟很多家长
关系都好，所以觉得一个有凝聚力的学校社区真的非常重要。族裔的比例是白人，亚裔
，Latino及其他各占1/3的样子。
不知道Newton,Arlington有没有类似的学校？Brookline也会考虑。“类似”的意思主
要是注重全面发展（而不是过于注重考分）；另外家长积极参与，学校社区凝聚力强。
对了上班地点在downtown.过来后孩子升1年级。
先谢谢大家。 | s*******y
发帖数: 26 | 2 另外，请问波士顿有没有家长/教育/音乐（尤其是吉他）/运动/户外活动微信群？谢谢 | S**5
发帖数: 174 | 3 推荐我们从前在的学校Runkle,k开学前就强调drill is kill,但强调阅读，和在生活中
学习数学，符合你的要求
【在 s*******y 的大作中提到】
: 另外，请问波士顿有没有家长/教育/音乐（尤其是吉他）/运动/户外活动微信群？谢谢
| s*******y
发帖数: 26 | 4 太感谢了！谢谢你的热心答复！：）
【在 S**5 的大作中提到】
: 推荐我们从前在的学校Runkle,k开学前就强调drill is kill,但强调阅读，和在生活中
: 学习数学，符合你的要求
| s*******y
发帖数: 26 | | s*******6
发帖数: 42 | 6 知道一个符合你条件的小学。可惜在back bay, 叫learning project。 | s*******y
发帖数: 26 | 7 谢谢回复。我听说Boston市内的学校都是通过lottery分配的，估计现在都已经过了
deadline了。另外我还是希望住在郊区。
不过看了这个学校的review, 说每个教室都有2个professional teacher（而不是
teaching aid)，真心赞啊！
【在 s*******6 的大作中提到】
: 知道一个符合你条件的小学。可惜在back bay, 叫learning project。
| s*******y
发帖数: 26 | 8 分享一下英文论坛对我这个问题的回复。觉得信息量很大，应该对很多人都有用。我自
己是研究/从事教育的。这里有没有对whole child education approach感兴趣的父母
？如果有的话，欢迎跟我站内交流。
Newton很多小学建筑状态比较糟糕，需要施工。这里有个video 可以看到：
https://vimeo.com/58028843
Massachusetts in general is very "whole child" unfriendly with its
monomaniaical focus on testing. It is a very strange environment because the
same progressive parents that want holistic, nurturing, progressive, nature
-based or waldorfy preschools want verifiably assessed and codified "good
schools" when it comes time for real schools. The so-called "good schools"
can only establish that they are "good" (and therefore worthy of inflated
housing values) with testing. So these same parents that would rather eat
paint than to send their sons to kindergarten before they are at least 6
have no problem handing them over full-day to an institution that sacrifices
recess and lunch time for test prep at the kindergarten level.
It was when I called around to the "good schools" asking about recess and
lunch and art,music, gym and library that we freaked out. There are bigger
fish to fry than "how do they develop the whole child" when it comes to
evaluating a town's schools in MA- is the library open more than once a week
(Framingham, Natick?) is there a cafeteria/hot lunch (Newton), is there
more than one 15 minute recess a day (Arlington), is lunch more than
15minutes long? Some really really basic questions that you would never
think to ask need to be asked. The school we were zoned to was actually
awesome compared to the answers I got from the "good schools" a.) had a
luxurious 20 minute recess once a day after a 30min lunch b.) recess was 90%
indoors due to topography/flooding at brand new building c.) art on a cart
had replaced a dedicated art room, but they had art weekly d.) had a full
time librarian and full time open library d.) gym was supposed to be twice a
week but having all recess indoors had made gym not happen due to space e.)
gifted intervention started in kindergarten with a program run by the
librarian (turned out this was a special literacy program to support native
speakers of english in an environment where they were in the minority and
treated as "gifted".) f.) housed/mainstreamed the entire city's population
of of kids that had proven themselves to be discipline/behavior problems in
the city's other schools, so (in the case of that particular year of
kindergarten) 30% of the whole kindergarten was part of this behavioral
integration program. | s*******y
发帖数: 26 | 9 再更新一下：根据我的research,Brookline的9所小学全部都是采取我所希望的whole-
child education，注重socio-emotional development。这些都是学校的core value。
：）
Newton的学校不知道，还需要研究。 |
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