New middle school enriched and accelerated classes

[Anonymous]

And also which school did you leave?

[Anonymous]

FYI - to current parents in MoCo:

MONDAY EVENING: Information Night – Updates on Elementary and Middle School Magnet Programs

Sponsored by the MCCPTA Gifted Child Committee

Date: 4/30/2018
Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Venue: Carver Auditorium, MCPS Headquarters,
850 Hungerford Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850

MCPS staff invited to participate:
Ms. Lori-Christina Webb, Executive Director to the Chief Academic Officer
Ms. Diane D'Ambrosio Morris, Director of School Support and Improvement for Middle Schools
Ms. Meredith Casper, Director, Division of Accelerated and Enriched Instruction
Ms. Kurshanna J. Dean, Supervisor, Division of Accelerated and Enriched Instruction

The first portion of the two-hour meeting will be a presentation by MCPS staff, with the remainder devoted to Q&A moderated by Michelle Gluck, President of the Gifted and Talented Association of Montgomery County.

Among the topics to be discussed:

Explanation of the elementary school magnet screening field test, including: What were the criteria for success? Were they met?
Explanation of this year’s elementary school magnet countywide screening rollout, including: What is being done differently from the field test, and why?
Explanation of this year’s middle school magnet screening field test, including: What are the criteria for success?
Information on new expansion classes at local middle schools
Timetables and future plans
Information on the role of the Office of School Support and Improvement (OSSI)

We hope to see you there for this important and informative evening!

MCCPTA Gifted Child Committee:
Lang Lin, Chair
Iris Masucci and Kim Testa, Vice Chairs

[Anonymous]

I hope someone will post an update about the meeting after it happens; or that MCPS will post something on the web site. I'm sure I am not alone in not being able to attend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FYI - to current parents in MoCo:

MONDAY EVENING: Information Night – Updates on Elementary and Middle School Magnet Programs

Sponsored by the MCCPTA Gifted Child Committee

Date: 4/30/2018
Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Venue: Carver Auditorium, MCPS Headquarters,
850 Hungerford Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850

MCPS staff invited to participate:
Ms. Lori-Christina Webb, Executive Director to the Chief Academic Officer
Ms. Diane D'Ambrosio Morris, Director of School Support and Improvement for Middle Schools
Ms. Meredith Casper, Director, Division of Accelerated and Enriched Instruction
Ms. Kurshanna J. Dean, Supervisor, Division of Accelerated and Enriched Instruction

The first portion of the two-hour meeting will be a presentation by MCPS staff, with the remainder devoted to Q&A moderated by Michelle Gluck, President of the Gifted and Talented Association of Montgomery County.

Among the topics to be discussed:

Explanation of the elementary school magnet screening field test, including: What were the criteria for success? Were they met?
Explanation of this year’s elementary school magnet countywide screening rollout, including: What is being done differently from the field test, and why?
Explanation of this year’s middle school magnet screening field test, including: What are the criteria for success?
Information on new expansion classes at local middle schools
Timetables and future plans
Information on the role of the Office of School Support and Improvement (OSSI)

We hope to see you there for this important and informative evening!

MCCPTA Gifted Child Committee:
Lang Lin, Chair
Iris Masucci and Kim Testa, Vice Chairs

Does anyone know if there will be a recording of this meeting for those who were not able to attend?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FYI - to current parents in MoCo:

MONDAY EVENING: Information Night – Updates on Elementary and Middle School Magnet Programs

Sponsored by the MCCPTA Gifted Child Committee

Date: 4/30/2018
Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Venue: Carver Auditorium, MCPS Headquarters,
850 Hungerford Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850

MCPS staff invited to participate:
Ms. Lori-Christina Webb, Executive Director to the Chief Academic Officer
Ms. Diane D'Ambrosio Morris, Director of School Support and Improvement for Middle Schools
Ms. Meredith Casper, Director, Division of Accelerated and Enriched Instruction
Ms. Kurshanna J. Dean, Supervisor, Division of Accelerated and Enriched Instruction

The first portion of the two-hour meeting will be a presentation by MCPS staff, with the remainder devoted to Q&A moderated by Michelle Gluck, President of the Gifted and Talented Association of Montgomery County.

Among the topics to be discussed:

Explanation of the elementary school magnet screening field test, including: What were the criteria for success? Were they met?
Explanation of this year’s elementary school magnet countywide screening rollout, including: What is being done differently from the field test, and why?
Explanation of this year’s middle school magnet screening field test, including: What are the criteria for success?
Information on new expansion classes at local middle schools
Timetables and future plans
Information on the role of the Office of School Support and Improvement (OSSI)

We hope to see you there for this important and informative evening!

MCCPTA Gifted Child Committee:
Lang Lin, Chair
Iris Masucci and Kim Testa, Vice Chairs

Does anyone know if there will be a recording of this meeting for those who were not able to attend?

No, quoted email from this morning:
"MCPS decides whether meetings will be recorded -- they own the recording equipment and set the criteria for when meetings will be recorded/streamed and when not. We asked for recording, and Ms. Webb put in a request, but whether it will be granted will depend in part on whether MCPS has already committed its budget for recording engineer overtime. There isn't a mechanism for outside organizations to pay for it (even if we had the budget) so we are at MCPS's mercy.

regards,
Michelle
"

[Anonymous]

NP here. Haven't heard anything, either email or letter. I emailed the Ms to ask when I might hear, since we do not have access to an online registration system,

[Anonymous]

Oop, pp here. Meant to add that I have not gotten a reply.

[Anonymous]

Anything from CJMS?? They were supposed to inform by end of April.

[Anonymous]

Anything from CJMS??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FYI - to current parents in MoCo:

MONDAY EVENING: Information Night – Updates on Elementary and Middle School Magnet Programs

Sponsored by the MCCPTA Gifted Child Committee

Date: 4/30/2018
Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Venue: Carver Auditorium, MCPS Headquarters,
850 Hungerford Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850

I'm bummed that they've scheduled this meeting during the info/orientation meetings for several of the CES programs tonight. Hopefully we'll be able to hear how it went and there will be some power points or other such info posted online. Some of us have kids accepted in CES and are interested in what MCPS is doing at the MS level.

[Anonymous]

Never heard about this information night, was the announcement sent by email?

[Anonymous]

is the advanced math geared to kids already in compacted math or not in compacted math already? or will both types of students be placed in it? the course name is confusing me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anything from CJMS?? They were supposed to inform by end of April.

I have not yet received a letter but I already know that my child is registered for the two classes--check their registration on my mcps to make sure. It should already be updated if they are in one or both classes. I would like to get the letter just to close the loop (and will email if I don't see if by the end of the week) but what is most important is what their registration says.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:is the advanced math geared to kids already in compacted math or not in compacted math already? or will both types of students be placed in it? the course name is confusing me.

It should be primarily for kids that finished compacted math and are starting IM in 6th grade. I imagine the top scoring kids will be in the new Applied IM course and the other kids that successfully completed compacted 5/6 will be in IM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anything from CJMS?? They were supposed to inform by end of April.

I have not yet received a letter but I already know that my child is registered for the two classes--check their registration on my mcps to make sure. It should already be updated if they are in one or both classes. I would like to get the letter just to close the loop (and will email if I don't see if by the end of the week) but what is most important is what their registration says.

Which MS is your kid going to.