I do because it's the same at our school. Everyone thinks it's a fine program, and the only time I hear anything negative is from the obsessed poster who is constantly talking about it here. |
So you never gave it a fair chance and post complaints about it without having even tried it? |
| You're the only person I've ever heard who has good things to say...with your endless posts pretending to be different people who "love" the program. It's a terrible program. Everyone knows it. |
Still waiting to hear what everyone loves about it. |
It was such an inspiration and the kids just loved it. |
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My perspective as a high school teacher
Problems: 1. Training was bad 2. Poor test rollout with little effort to fix the issues 3. Training cont. to be bad and rollout continued to other schools with little support. 4. Admin ignored it, shunting it to advisory periods where all county initiatives go to die. 5. Staff never had proper training and buy in. The fact is we are professionals in our subject areas and not much else. Not many really feel comfortable in another role. 6. SEL and leadership training works well in small or self contained settings not in middle school and high schools large classrooms. 7. Students are really good BS detectors and knew right away that this was talking down to them. |
Nope, going to need something a little more specific. Otherwise you have proven yourself to be either a troll or someone schilling for the company. |
| This person is obviously a troll or is brain dead. |
| Name the school you’re at where everyone and the kids loved it and were so inspired by it. Back up your claim with some facts we can verify by speaking with other educators and families at the school. I know… we’ll be waiting forever because this didn’t happen. |
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I don't know enough about LiM to have a strong opinion on it, but what I saw of it made me think it was too surface-level and childish to have an impact on the middle and high schoolers who needed meaningful SEL most.
I think MCPS has correctly identified SEL as a student need, but I am not convinced they have the human or curriculum resources in place to actually do anything meaningful in that area. And so MCPS would be smart to do something that works rather than waste time, energy and goodwill on something they can a check a box on that everyone ignores or rolls their eyes at, which seemed to be the case with LiM. |
My kids liked it too. Was a great program! Wish they did more things like this. |
I know! They keep speaking poorly about this program that everyone seems to love and have 0 facts to back it up. |
Ahh there you are again, posting as multiple people. We're still waiting for you to name the school that EVERYONE was SOOOO inspired by LiM. It'll never happen. |
Agreed! SEL is a need but LIM is NOT SEL curriculum. |
| Many MCPS high schools have decided to drop Leader in me next year. Instead they are opting to try a MCPS home-grown SEL curriculum instead. Is this happening in middle and elementary schools as well? |