Uniforms 

Uniform shirts can be purchased at Imagine Southeast PCS (when available) or at Campus Outfitters. Campus Outfitters is located at 5112 Berwyn Road, College Park, MD 20740. They can be reached via phone (301-220-1987) or you can visit their website:  http://www.campusoutfitters.com/.

Short sleeve t-shirts are $9.00. Short sleeve polo shirts are $13.00. Long sleeve polo shirts are $15.00.

Family Handbook

Our Family Handbook is an excellent resource for information on before and after care program, policies and procedures, arrival and dismissal information and much more. Family Handbook

Our Single Sex Educational Approach 

It is important to address some of the more specific needs of boys and girls that are often overlooked within today’s schools. An increasing body of evidence points to the distinct ways that boys’ and girls’ brains develop and are structured, and how these differences affect how successfully children learn in an educational setting. The brain research of psychologist and family physician Leonard Sax, among others, reveals that traditional co-ed schools fail to account for the real learning differences of boys and girls, regardless of socioeconomic, racial, or family background. Briefly summarized, boys and girls often have different motivators to learn (girls’ concern to please others vs. boys need for the material itself to be inherently interesting), as well as different learning styles (girls tend to need material that ties to real life while boys tend to be more responsive to confrontation and direct challenges). Treating boys and girls exactly the same, as is the case in most traditional co-ed schools, does an educational disservice to both groups in the long run, leading to learning gaps and lower academic performance across the board.

At Imagine Southeast PCS, students will be grouped by sex starting in first grade, creating a Dual-Academy, single-sex instructional environment that separates students into a Boys’ Academy and Girls’ Academy. As mentioned previously, this grouping will best accommodate the differences between boys and girls by allowing teachers to tailor their classes to spark a love of learning in ways that co-ed educational settings cannot. By eliminating social distractions that hinder academic performance and good behavior, adapting instruction to best motivate and teach boys and girls, and opening up typically “non-traditional” subjects and activities for boys and girls to pursue, both genders will benefit greatly from a more tailored approach.

In addition to focusing on single-sex instruction, another motivation for the Dual-Academy structure is also to intentionally promote a sense of “balance” in each Academy to avoid an all-male or all-female mindset. It is important for both boys and girls to learn to positively relate with each other, hence the need for a mixed faculty in both Academies (to promote both male and female role models), and the creation of specific activities to give the boys and girls a chance to constructively interact.

To learn more, visit www.singlesexschools.org