ELC (enriched Literacy Curriculum)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What I heard is that no ES feeding into W schools got picked for the pilot.

prob don't want to mess with their steller ELA PARCC scores, which are desperately needed to keep the county average looking OK.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What I heard is that no ES feeding into W schools got picked for the pilot.

prob don't want to mess with their steller ELA PARCC scores, which are desperately needed to keep the county average looking OK.

Let's wait until the list is out before we start hypothesizing about these sorts of rumors. I don't think anyone outside of MCPS Central Office has seen the list of 26 schools. There are also schools that were in the pilot THIS year but I don't know which they are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What I heard is that no ES feeding into W schools got picked for the pilot.

False.

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I know this is an old conversation but I was wondering what will happen in 6th Grade? My son has ELC since 4th grade. He is now in 5th grade and half of his 5th grade buddies in his school gets ELC now. He really enjoys it. His MAP tests are over 95 percentile in Reading and his Parcc or MPAC as they'll it now came last week with a score of 99 percentile... My daughter is now in 7th Grade and it seems to me that the middle school doesn't offer any option of advanced/compacted/enriched English. I was wondering what he will do next year as he had been pushed (really!) through the ELC program in elementary school, what will be the options in middle school?

Thank you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hello,

I know this is an old conversation but I was wondering what will happen in 6th Grade? My son has ELC since 4th grade. He is now in 5th grade and half of his 5th grade buddies in his school gets ELC now. He really enjoys it. His MAP tests are over 95 percentile in Reading and his Parcc or MPAC as they'll it now came last week with a score of 99 percentile... My daughter is now in 7th Grade and it seems to me that the middle school doesn't offer any option of advanced/compacted/enriched English. I was wondering what he will do next year as he had been pushed (really!) through the ELC program in elementary school, what will be the options in middle school?

Thank you

The advanced MS class is World History, not English.

[Anonymous]

There is advanced English in 6th grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is advanced English in 6th grade.

Middle schools offer Advanced English and remedial Reading classes, so Advanced English is really just middle school level English. The enriched humanities class for 6th graders is the Historical Inquiries class.

[Anonymous]

My DS was one of the first group of ELC students to complete the "2 year program" and just started RPMS this year. So to answer the question of what is he doing: he is in Global Humanities and Advanced English. I can say that my son and his peers say it is a "total" breeze compared to what they have done over the past two years.

Collectively we asked both the ES & MS Principals what was the plan for the children who were in this program prior to school starting and were informed the new ELA was enough. I can say as a parent am saddened and disappointed in the lack of foresight by MCPS because I can only image where these children go had gone had this program been extended to the next level.

[Anonymous]

I'm also an RPMS parent in the same boat as the PP, and I feel the same disappointment about the ELC program disappearing in middle school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DS was one of the first group of ELC students to complete the "2 year program" and just started RPMS this year. So to answer the question of what is he doing: he is in Global Humanities and Advanced English. I can say that my son and his peers say it is a "total" breeze compared to what they have done over the past two years.

Collectively we asked both the ES & MS Principals what was the plan for the children who were in this program prior to school starting and were informed the new ELA was enough. I can say as a parent am saddened and disappointed in the lack of foresight by MCPS because I can only image where these children go had gone had this program been extended to the next level.

Imagine those kids from ES GT center, even bigger disappointment! MCPS can never plan things consistently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DS was one of the first group of ELC students to complete the "2 year program" and just started RPMS this year. So to answer the question of what is he doing: he is in Global Humanities and Advanced English. I can say that my son and his peers say it is a "total" breeze compared to what they have done over the past two years.

Collectively we asked both the ES & MS Principals what was the plan for the children who were in this program prior to school starting and were informed the new ELA was enough. I can say as a parent am saddened and disappointed in the lack of foresight by MCPS because I can only image where these children go had gone had this program been extended to the next level.

We were told that they chose to put the new advanced MS course in History rather than English because the English curriculum is set to change and they didn't want to build a new (advanced English) curriculum only to have to change it again right away. They strongly implied that there will be a true advanced option in English as well once the new English curriculum is in place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is advanced English in 6th grade.

LOL

There is no advanced English class in 6th Grade.

EVERY student is placed in 'Advanced English' regardless of his/her reading level in 5th grade. There is no non-Advanced English in MCPS. They do offer remedial help for kids who need it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DS was one of the first group of ELC students to complete the "2 year program" and just started RPMS this year. So to answer the question of what is he doing: he is in Global Humanities and Advanced English. I can say that my son and his peers say it is a "total" breeze compared to what they have done over the past two years.

Collectively we asked both the ES & MS Principals what was the plan for the children who were in this program prior to school starting and were informed the new ELA was enough. I can say as a parent am saddened and disappointed in the lack of foresight by MCPS because I can only image where these children go had gone had this program been extended to the next level.

Global Humanities and AIM are the only higher level classes offering enrichment in MCPS MSs.

There is no advanced English class.

[Anonymous]

Advanced English in 6th grade is the same mixed-ability groupings your kid had before the ELC. There is no enrichment being offered in English.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DS was one of the first group of ELC students to complete the "2 year program" and just started RPMS this year. So to answer the question of what is he doing: he is in Global Humanities and Advanced English. I can say that my son and his peers say it is a "total" breeze compared to what they have done over the past two years.

Collectively we asked both the ES & MS Principals what was the plan for the children who were in this program prior to school starting and were informed the new ELA was enough. I can say as a parent am saddened and disappointed in the lack of foresight by MCPS because I can only image where these children go had gone had this program been extended to the next level.

Imagine those kids from ES GT center, even bigger disappointment! MCPS can never plan things consistently.

My kid went from a regional CES to our home MS, and it has been less than stellar. There are kids in her English class who can barely write sentences. Not sure how the teacher is supposed to teach kids at such a disparity of levels. DD is happy that it's easy, and the expectations are so low, but I do wish there were more of a challenge offered.

The other kids from her CES are spread out amongst various English classes, so they certainly didn't try to keep the cohort together.