Expansion of Enriched Literacy Curriculum to New Elementary Schools
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Anonymous
| Elc starts for 4th grade and above & only for advanced learner, right? |
Anonymous
| Can somebody explain to me the difference between CES and ELC? |
Anonymous
CES is a magnet, meaning that most kids will change schools to attend. A handful of schools have "local CES" programs, but the vast majority of kids in MCPS who attend a CES program are changing their school assignment for 4th and 5th. It has self-contained classrooms and an enhanced literacy curriculum that is writing-heavy and focused on project-based learning. Because it is a humanities program, it tends to wrap around the other subjects as well. So, if the kids are studying Greek Myths in Language Arts, they are also learning about Greek society in Social Studies, and then science will have a unit on the physics of a Greek ballista. ELC sits within a child's home school, and is usually handled by splitting kids up during the ELC block or blocks. So, your 4th grader might have "homeroom" with Ms. Smith but then go to Ms. Jones' classroom for ELC along with all of the other kids identified for ELC. In theory, the ELC curriculum mirrors the CES curriculum and I think that's more true in some schools than others. ELC is still pretty new even for the schools that were part of the pilot phase, so it's a little bit of a process to get the teachers trained up and to integrate best practices in gifted learning. Still....ELC is better than nothing and it has the potential to really fill the gap that is being left by the lottery system. |
Anonymous
No its not just for rich schools. Its for gifted kids. Implementation roll outs require time for a number of thing(ordering materials, sorting, training, best practices, evaluation, tweaks). Add in the fact that this all impacts kids including likely some part of the Gifted population is being done while still dealing with learning recovery and mental health issue increases, and while benchmark is still in the implementation phases in person, 20 schools might actually be all they can handle. |
Anonymous
Why isn't this offered at all schools then? |
Anonymous
Our school doesn't have it. Wonder why some are excluded. |
Anonymous
It's probably not exclusion. MCPS is just picking a number of schools to roll out each year. Next year year it might be your school. |
Anonymous
By picking, they deny opportunities for other highly abled kids. That is the exact problem many talk about in this forum. MCPS leadership is a total failure. |
Anonymous
No, it's just a phased rollout. See the explanation above. |
Anonymous
The MCCPTA has done a pretty thorough analysis of the schools added, by cluster. You can join their FB group to see the spreadsheet. |
Anonymous
Does it really take 5 years to accomplish this? |
Anonymous
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The MCCPTA Gifted Ed Committee is holding an informal meeting to answer questions parents and caregivers might have for next year and offer guidance.
If your school will not be offering the Enriched Literacy Curriculum (ELC) in fall 2022, please join our 4/25 discussion and learn how you can advocate for the GT learners in your school. When: Monday Apr 25, 2022 07:00 PM Register in advance for this meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYscOiopzorGdzfWIfaR8J8JaCldSCpZOad?fbclid=IwAR3XoXMRmrgi2gUVm4K1Tw08GPpBwI0AR_pXDgVnYOz0mRfEuyWkrCLzwO0 After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. |
Anonymous
MCPS prefers not to focus on engaging highly-abled kids. That would directly contradict their stated goal of closing the achievement gap. Encouraging high-performing kids to do even better just makes it harder to close the achievement gap. |
Anonymous
Well, you obviously don't think so, and you're the expert, right? -NP |
Anonymous
Which explains why they're continuing with the rollout an enriched literacy curriculum to another group of elementary schools...? |