Any rumors on new curriculum vendor finalists?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Link to that letter, please? I can't find it on the MCPS website and would like to see the list of schools implementing the new curriculum next year.

It came as an email.

It was sent to me (MCPS parent) at 9:55 a.m. this morning. Great to hear more from MCPS finally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So does that mean kids who will take Alg I next year in MS will not receive the new curriculum?

It means that if you do not see your child’s school listed that they will not have the new curriculum until it’s been tried and tweaked on the schools listed above. I wouldn’t really fret about it unless it’s found that the new curriculum is fabulous.

I've seen the current curriculum materials coming home in my kid's backpack. They mostly stink. Anything would be an improvement. I'm bummed my kid's school isn't on the list of piloting schools.

[Anonymous]

Glad our neighborhood ES and HS are on the list. Sad the MS isn't, but who knows -- maybe the new Algebra curriculum isn't any good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So does that mean kids who will take Alg I next year in MS will not receive the new curriculum?

It means that if you do not see your child’s school listed that they will not have the new curriculum until it’s been tried and tweaked on the schools listed above. I wouldn’t really fret about it unless it’s found that the new curriculum is fabulous.

I've seen the current curriculum materials coming home in my kid's backpack. They mostly stink. Anything would be an improvement. I'm bummed my kid's school isn't on the list of piloting schools.

You're off message, PP. You're supposed to complain that the current curriculum stinks AND that you don't want your kid to be a "guinea pig" for the new curriculum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Link to that letter, please? I can't find it on the MCPS website and would like to see the list of schools implementing the new curriculum next year.

It came as an email.

It was sent to me (MCPS parent) at 9:55 a.m. this morning. Great to hear more from MCPS finally.

Here's the link: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/publicinfo/community/school-year-2018-2019/curriculum-october-update.html

[Anonymous]

LOL!

‘High quality and engaging’ instructional material? How can she even say that with a straight face?

Is that what you call crappy, black and white photocopies that ask you to sort by color? Or blurry copies that have been scanned into Google classroom? Because that’s what we get at our ES. Definitely NOT high quality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So does that mean kids who will take Alg I next year in MS will not receive the new curriculum?

It means that if you do not see your child’s school listed that they will not have the new curriculum until it’s been tried and tweaked on the schools listed above. I wouldn’t really fret about it unless it’s found that the new curriculum is fabulous.

I've seen the current curriculum materials coming home in my kid's backpack. They mostly stink. Anything would be an improvement. I'm bummed my kid's school isn't on the list of piloting schools.

You're off message, PP. You're supposed to complain that the current curriculum stinks AND that you don't want your kid to be a "guinea pig" for the new curriculum.

Are you an MCPS shill? I am an actual parent and I think the materials coming home in my kid's backpack look like they were developed by a high school kid. I'm happy to have my kid be a guinea pig for a curriculum developed by professionals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LOL!

‘High quality and engaging’ instructional material? How can she even say that with a straight face?

Is that what you call crappy, black and white photocopies that ask you to sort by color? Or blurry copies that have been scanned into Google classroom? Because that’s what we get at our ES. Definitely NOT high quality.

LMAO

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL!

‘High quality and engaging’ instructional material? How can she even say that with a straight face?

Is that what you call crappy, black and white photocopies that ask you to sort by color? Or blurry copies that have been scanned into Google classroom? Because that’s what we get at our ES. Definitely NOT high quality.

LMAO

+1 Yeah, and those endlessly enlightening worksheets on subitizing.

[Anonymous]

Is that what you call crappy, black and white photocopies that ask you to sort by color?

I've seen those too! I don't understand how producing work of this poor quality is not a termination worthy offense.

[Anonymous]

Did elementary schools have to choose between ELA and Math? I didn't see a school that was listed in both categories.

To pp, MCPS has been using our kids as
guinea pigs by using the curriculum they developed. Adopting a curriculum that has been used in other districts (hopefully after being evaluated by subject matter specialists) where we can look at how it has performed in those districts is different. The guinea pig issue is not that a proven curriculum is new to our district, it's that our district has been in the habit of using curriculums which are new in terms of their existence.

Given that the current curriculum has proven to be a failure, I would choose "experimenting" with a curriculum that has shown signs of success elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

And my child's school is in NEITHER categories! WTH??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And my child's school is in NEITHER categories! WTH??

During the first attempt to get a new curriculum, schools were asked whether they wanted to be part of the first cohort or not, and in which of the two subjects. I know our school requested to pilot the English curriculum, and I see it on the list for next year. I know of other schools (based on previous discussions here) that did not volunteer to pilot the curriculum, so they are presumably not doing it. If I remember correctly, the original plan was for 70 elementary schools to start in the first year (35 in each category), and then in year two for those schools to pick up the second category and the remaining schools to each start one category, and then in the third year all schools would have both categories (math and English). I don't remember middle or high schools.

So presumably your principal and staff didn't want to volunteer to pilot the curriculum for some reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And my child's school is in NEITHER categories! WTH??

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did elementary schools have to choose between ELA and Math? I didn't see a school that was listed in both categories.

To pp, MCPS has been using our kids as
guinea pigs by using the curriculum they developed. Adopting a curriculum that has been used in other districts (hopefully after being evaluated by subject matter specialists) where we can look at how it has performed in those districts is different. The guinea pig issue is not that a proven curriculum is new to our district, it's that our district has been in the habit of using curriculums which are new in terms of their existence.

Given that the current curriculum has proven to be a failure, I would choose "experimenting" with a curriculum that has shown signs of success elsewhere.

Yes, I think they had to choose. I don't think they could offer both.