I took a class at Rockford Discovery Institute. It was a group class that was designed to allow you to work with your own students and create your own learning community. I thought I was in for a treat, as I learned that I could have my students come to my house for a meal, an activity, a presentation, or a discussion and I didn’t have to pay for that. I also discovered that my own children could have the same opportunity.
This is a pretty cool idea. Imagine if you could make your own classes that were designed for teaching your own kids? You could even do it with your own kids. Rockford Discovery Institute is a private K-8 school in Chicago. I’ve attended many of their classes (including their Introduction to Social Studies class) and thought that the idea was pretty cool.
The idea of Rockford Discovery is pretty cool. The idea of having your own private school in your own city sounds pretty cool too. They’re actually a part of the Chicago Public Schools network, but they don’t operate as an independent school. They are connected by a network of schools in the Chicago area who all share resources and teachers.
Yeah the idea of private schools in Chicago sounds pretty cool. You could probably get a private school in your own town too.
Rockford is a little more than just a place to go to school, though.It’s actually a neighborhood, and in most cases if you have a child or family member who works at Rockford Discovery, you can tap into the city’s incredible educational resources through the Rockford Discovery Educational Foundation.
Rockford Discovery is the citys newest public high school, and the school was founded by the Rockford Area Community Foundation. The school offers many different programs ranging from music to art, health to science, and much more. It also recently opened their new School of Architecture, which is the first of its kind in the state of Illinois.
The school is very well organized and well run, but the curriculum is way out of date and very hard for some kids to understand. The citys new Science department has been attempting to update the curriculum in a big way, but it’s still very much a work in progress. Most of the courses are geared towards a particular age group and can often feel like “learning circles” as children get older.
This is a really hard one to get along with. You don’t have to be a science teacher to do this. But as you can see from the images above, we’re all pretty much in the same boat there, with plenty of learning options.
Youll see a lot of pretty much the same thing in rockford. The new science department, like many of the other schools we’ve visited, is aimed at the under-8s, and its not designed for those older than 12. The school has a pretty good reputation for teaching science with a little bit of fun as well. We’ll see if the classes are still enjoyable by the time we see the rest of the school.
We were on a fieldtrip to the old rockford discovery education in the spring, and it was great. The kids were friendly, the teachers were very knowledgeable without being hard to understand, the lessons were exciting, and there were plenty of things to do outside of the school. It even had an indoor basketball hoops and other equipment, so it was a great chance for the kids to show off their shooting skills. They also showed off some new equipment, including a laser light gun.