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Welcome to Baker

For over 100 years, Baker Demonstration School has been educating preschool – 8th grade children hailing from Chicago, the North Shore and around the globe. Our diverse, multilingual community is committed to our evidence-based approach to progressive education.
 
Our child-centered approach ensures that each child is uniquely nurtured—creating expressive, compassionate students that are eager to help shape the world and truly love learning at Baker.
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An education that puts children in the driver’s seat

Benefits of a Baker Education

Love of Learning

Adaptability

Adapting to what life brings is grounded in solution-focused design thinking, modeled by our highly-trained faculty who partner with your child as co-learners.

Self-advocacy

Essential to success in high school and college is the norm here, as curricula are driven by your child’s imagination and adapted to their unique needs.

Empathy

The ability to see the experience of others in collaborative work and problem-solving, is at the heart of socially-conscious project-based learning at Baker.

Growth

Your student’s ever-deepening growth and development is communicated through detailed written reports, not merely an impersonal letter grade.

At Baker, your child’s teachers will nurture their innate love of learning, challenge them to adapt creatively to solve real problems, encourage them to advocate for their own needs and develop the empathy to advocate for others. This leads to not only academic growth, but deep social and emotional growth as well.

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More Ways to Explore Baker

Listen to our K-8 Collaborative podcast, in which Dr. Jordan Grumet, self-described “proud father of a creative, energetic and empathic seventh grader” at Baker, discusses progressive education with staff, faculty and community partners. You can also download our viewbook, featuring our beautiful, 100-year-old campus, facilities, and images of our learning community working together in the spirit of exploration.

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