Mosaic Elementary AAP Orientation

[Anonymous]

A virtual orientation in 2024?

Be prepared for the kids to be on laptops all day.

[Anonymous]

My experience is from before the pandemic, so it might be out of date.

Mosaic is not a good AAP center, and you should stay local if you have a LLIV. My experience is that almost all of the projects were just making google slide shows. The kids spent an entire month before SOLs doing 'SOL bootcamp.' The AAP classes still used a model of math instruction where the kids rotated through centers, rather than having any whole class instruction or differentiation. For both reading and math, the teachers catered to the kids who didn't belong in AAP and were behind, rather than providing any extensions to the kids who needed it. Both 5th and 6th grade AAP math were just gen ed math given a year earlier and not a true AAP class with enrichment and extensions to the material.

The principal likes to restrict parent access as much as possible. The PTA was very anemic, because no one wanted to deal with the principal. There were few to no afterschool enrichment activities, other than ones offered by paid vendors. If you email the principal, expect your email to be ignored. They initially refused to give me my kid's iready scores, and I had to escalate to get them.

Now, with the extensive construction at the school, it's a no brainer to stay local if your school has a LLIV.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Mosaic Elementary, our AAP Center School, will host a virtual Level IV Orientation on May 1st at 6:30 pm. An email with the virtual link will be sent soon.


From our base school

Our local school did not send this info to us so this is great to know, thank you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My experience is from before the pandemic, so it might be out of date.

Mosaic is not a good AAP center, and you should stay local if you have a LLIV. My experience is that almost all of the projects were just making google slide shows. The kids spent an entire month before SOLs doing 'SOL bootcamp.' The AAP classes still used a model of math instruction where the kids rotated through centers, rather than having any whole class instruction or differentiation. For both reading and math, the teachers catered to the kids who didn't belong in AAP and were behind, rather than providing any extensions to the kids who needed it. Both 5th and 6th grade AAP math were just gen ed math given a year earlier and not a true AAP class with enrichment and extensions to the material.

The principal likes to restrict parent access as much as possible. The PTA was very anemic, because no one wanted to deal with the principal. There were few to no afterschool enrichment activities, other than ones offered by paid vendors. If you email the principal, expect your email to be ignored. They initially refused to give me my kid's iready scores, and I had to escalate to get them.

Now, with the extensive construction at the school, it's a no brainer to stay local if your school has a LLIV.

First timer AAP parent here, so please enlighten me on this a bit more.
What does a good AAP school look like?
How do you know what happens at other schools that don't happen at Mosaic?
Do you have other kids who studied at different schools or did things differently?

Will be house hunting soon. So, more info on this with a few more examples of other schools will help.