Looks like ELC is gone

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I asked my school and they said that they are piloting CKLA+ enrichment and will make a decision on next year in the spring.

For me the biggest issue is the cohorting. It’s not just the curriculum but the ability to move quickly with similarly able peers…

What’s the enrichment? How often is the enrichment and for how long? What are going to be the determining factors between ELC vs CKLA+enrichment

Mcps is required intervention blocks next year. My kid gets elc in her enrichment block.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I asked my school and they said that they are piloting CKLA+ enrichment and will make a decision on next year in the spring.

For me the biggest issue is the cohorting. It’s not just the curriculum but the ability to move quickly with similarly able peers…

What’s the enrichment? How often is the enrichment and for how long? What are going to be the determining factors between ELC vs CKLA+enrichment

Mcps is required intervention blocks next year. My kid gets elc in her enrichment block.

That is not nearly as good as getting it in a stand-alone class with only advanced learners. Does your school have enough students identified to form a class?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I asked my school and they said that they are piloting CKLA+ enrichment and will make a decision on next year in the spring.

For me the biggest issue is the cohorting. It’s not just the curriculum but the ability to move quickly with similarly able peers…

What’s the enrichment? How often is the enrichment and for how long? What are going to be the determining factors between ELC vs CKLA+enrichment

Mcps is required intervention blocks next year. My kid gets elc in her enrichment block.

That is not nearly as good as getting it in a stand-alone class with only advanced learners. Does your school have enough students identified to form a class?

If administrators and teachers did not tolerate disruptions and enforced a high learning bar, parents would not need to hope and pray for a stand-aline class with only advanced learners. Of course that will never happen because this is mcps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I asked my school and they said that they are piloting CKLA+ enrichment and will make a decision on next year in the spring.

For me the biggest issue is the cohorting. It’s not just the curriculum but the ability to move quickly with similarly able peers…

What’s the enrichment? How often is the enrichment and for how long? What are going to be the determining factors between ELC vs CKLA+enrichment

Mcps is required intervention blocks next year. My kid gets elc in her enrichment block.

That is not nearly as good as getting it in a stand-alone class with only advanced learners. Does your school have enough students identified to form a class?

Very curious about this as well. We just received an email from our principal about a meeting about changes to the program but absolutely no relevant information at all. I’m SO frustrated by all of this. Our ELC was really wonderful for 4th grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I asked my school and they said that they are piloting CKLA+ enrichment and will make a decision on next year in the spring.

For me the biggest issue is the cohorting. It’s not just the curriculum but the ability to move quickly with similarly able peers…

What’s the enrichment? How often is the enrichment and for how long? What are going to be the determining factors between ELC vs CKLA+enrichment

Mcps is required intervention blocks next year. My kid gets elc in her enrichment block.

That is not nearly as good as getting it in a stand-alone class with only advanced learners. Does your school have enough students identified to form a class?

If administrators and teachers did not tolerate disruptions and enforced a high learning bar, parents would not need to hope and pray for a stand-aline class with only advanced learners. Of course that will never happen because this is mcps.

I would love to know what you believe administrators have the power to enforce in their buildings? Long gone are the days where a principal can just send a student home or suspend a kid at his or her discretion. We pretty much have to beg our directors to let us suspend a child and even then, it has to be for an egregious incident. The general public would be shocked if they saw what school based administrators and teachers have to deal with on a daily basis with hands tied behind their backs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I asked my school and they said that they are piloting CKLA+ enrichment and will make a decision on next year in the spring.

For me the biggest issue is the cohorting. It’s not just the curriculum but the ability to move quickly with similarly able peers…

What’s the enrichment? How often is the enrichment and for how long? What are going to be the determining factors between ELC vs CKLA+enrichment

Mcps is required intervention blocks next year. My kid gets elc in her enrichment block.

That is not nearly as good as getting it in a stand-alone class with only advanced learners. Does your school have enough students identified to form a class?

If administrators and teachers did not tolerate disruptions and enforced a high learning bar, parents would not need to hope and pray for a stand-aline class with only advanced learners. Of course that will never happen because this is mcps.

I would love to know what you believe administrators have the power to enforce in their buildings? Long gone are the days where a principal can just send a student home or suspend a kid at his or her discretion. We pretty much have to beg our directors to let us suspend a child and even then, it has to be for an egregious incident. The general public would be shocked if they saw what school based administrators and teachers have to deal with on a daily basis with hands tied behind their backs.

+💯

[Anonymous]

Teachers just got an email saying this next year will be the last year to phase out ELC(aka if a 4th grade class is currently being given ELC curriculum, next year, they will be the last group to get it.). No future 4th graders will have ELC!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teachers just got an email saying this next year will be the last year to phase out ELC(aka if a 4th grade class is currently being given ELC curriculum, next year, they will be the last group to get it.). No future 4th graders will have ELC!

Did they give details about what will replace it?

[Anonymous]

Attention K-3 parents: If you want your kids to have access to enriched literature/writing before 11th grades (unless they get into a magnet), now is the time to make some noise.

[Anonymous]

If they’re getting rid of ELC why do the CES still exist? I thought ELC was to make sure student who didn’t win the lottery got enrichment at home school. So high scoring kids who didn’t get into the CES now get nothing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If they’re getting rid of ELC why do the CES still exist? I thought ELC was to make sure student who didn’t win the lottery got enrichment at home school. So high scoring kids who didn’t get into the CES now get nothing?

lol, don’t try to find logic here. None of it makes sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If they’re getting rid of ELC why do the CES still exist? I thought ELC was to make sure student who didn’t win the lottery got enrichment at home school. So high scoring kids who didn’t get into the CES now get nothing?

It’s so unfair. I don’t know who possibly could be supportive of the CES program now except for the families of students who get in. It makes no sense for MCPS to identify students who qualify for a program, then place them in a lottery for the program and only provide it to one segment of that population. Why can’t MCPS just provide the CES curriculum at all schools? What is the point of the magnets? Why can’t students just stay at their home schools and receive advanced instruction there? There are advanced learners at all MCPS schools. Keep them in their schools and teach them there!!

[Anonymous]

Just wait until middle school. CES kids who don’t get into criteria based magnets, and kids who did ELC, just repeat content they did because there is no truly advanced English class, and that problem continues in 9th and 10th grade. They call the middle school class “advanced” and the high school class “honors,” but everyone takes the same class, and it is barely on grade level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If they’re getting rid of ELC why do the CES still exist? I thought ELC was to make sure student who didn’t win the lottery got enrichment at home school. So high scoring kids who didn’t get into the CES now get nothing?

It’s so unfair. I don’t know who possibly could be supportive of the CES program now except for the families of students who get in. It makes no sense for MCPS to identify students who qualify for a program, then place them in a lottery for the program and only provide it to one segment of that population. Why can’t MCPS just provide the CES curriculum at all schools? What is the point of the magnets? Why can’t students just stay at their home schools and receive advanced instruction there? There are advanced learners at all MCPS schools. Keep them in their schools and teach them there!!

Well this is the paradigm they used for middle schools, but it is a total failure. English classes are honors for all with grade level and below text. HIGH classes for social studies are cohorted in some schools but in lots of others they just put everyone in the advanced class. Our school does cohort, but the only difference from the grade level course is is the advanced students are supposed to read a book in social studieseach semester. That would mean they’re supposed to read 6 books by the end of middle school. My 8th grader read two books in 6th but one had been assigned/read as part of the 4th grade curriculum, so it was a repeat/waste. The 7th and 8th grade teachers just decided to skip the books entirely because they said they were “dry.” It would be great if enriched options were offered with fidelity at each school, but the reality is it will be watered down or non existent or eliminated. This was exactly what ELC was supposed to be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If they’re getting rid of ELC why do the CES still exist? I thought ELC was to make sure student who didn’t win the lottery got enrichment at home school. So high scoring kids who didn’t get into the CES now get nothing?

It’s so unfair. I don’t know who possibly could be supportive of the CES program now except for the families of students who get in. It makes no sense for MCPS to identify students who qualify for a program, then place them in a lottery for the program and only provide it to one segment of that population. Why can’t MCPS just provide the CES curriculum at all schools? What is the point of the magnets? Why can’t students just stay at their home schools and receive advanced instruction there? There are advanced learners at all MCPS schools. Keep them in their schools and teach them there!!

Well this is the paradigm they used for middle schools, but it is a total failure. English classes are honors for all with grade level and below text. HIGH classes for social studies are cohorted in some schools but in lots of others they just put everyone in the advanced class. Our school does cohort, but the only difference from the grade level course is is the advanced students are supposed to read a book in social studieseach semester. That would mean they’re supposed to read 6 books by the end of middle school. My 8th grader read two books in 6th but one had been assigned/read as part of the 4th grade curriculum, so it was a repeat/waste. The 7th and 8th grade teachers just decided to skip the books entirely because they said they were “dry.” It would be great if enriched options were offered with fidelity at each school, but the reality is it will be watered down or non existent or eliminated. This was exactly what ELC was supposed to be.

DP. That is exactly why ES school parents need to get involved in MS curriculum issues. It takes years to effect change.