My kids school the ELC and CM students just rotate to the appropriate teacher(s) for Reading/Writing and Math class. |
Does this have more info ?
https://www.mccpta.org/curriculum |
Based on some comments on the following thread, "enrichment" is also offered in middle school - by reading a few novels in history class: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/75/1151581.page |
Are they still going to have compacted math next year? When do we find out if our children would get into cm |
How do they do it (if at all) in one-way immersion programs? |
We have a local CES at a moderately low-farm school. The top 15% would roughly be the population of the CES class, but because it's an equity lottery there ends up being many kids below the 92% who are eligible. Mostly this means that kids who need this the most get passed over. |
Neither the ELC nor CM curriculum are changing next year. If there is problem or concern with the implementation or instruction of either, speak with your school’s Reading Specialist, SDT, and/or Principal. |
May depend on the program. Mandarin/Chinese should have regular ELC because it's partial immersion -- only math & science are delivered in the target language. French immersion has to do a lot of their own curriculum building, and they've identified texts, etc., to try to emulate the ELC paradigm in the target language. Spanish one-way (full) immersion tends to have more centrally-supported third-party curricular materials on which they rely (they are more widely available and cheaper in the US), but may also have to come up with some of their own to accomplish a likeness of ELC. Students in the schools who are not in the immersion programs would take the normal MCPS English ELC, though that may have been delayed a year behind the rest of the full ELC rollout. |
Just remember that high achievement does not equal enrichment need, though one can assume some significant correlation. There are those highly able who are not in environments that tend to support that high ability such that achievement is at a similar level to those with similar ability in a more supportive environment, which would include more highly-manageable cohorts. This ability-related need is why the "equity lottery" is in place, though one might suggest better identification mechanisms than the ones MCPS employs. Of course, if MoCo funded and MCPS implemented the programs with seats enough actually to meet the need, there would not need to be a lottery. |
I was told my kid would be pulled out for ELC at Rock View ES in 4th grade next year. They met the lottery requirements but weren't selected. |