MCPS curriculum RFP-Second Attempt
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Anonymous
thx, I read the RFP file (last one listed) and am familiar with legal docs. no mention of science or social studies in either ELA or math requirements or preferences. Guess MCPS will whip that up? mentioned 45-60 minutes of daily ELA and of daily Math so that frees up 60 minutes versus current C2.0. Wonder what MCSP will do with that time? More gym, A day for science, B day for social studies? no mention of physical textbooks or work books, just digital stuff for teachers, parents, students. |
Anonymous
Yeah. I wonder if that’s an attempt to stack the decks for Discovery Education which has a lot of online content, as opposed to a Singapore math type curriculum which is traditional materials. Also, there’s a section there where the curriculum provided has to describe how their curriculum matches up to MCPS’s framework that seems tailor made for an ex-McPS employee to write |
Anonymous
| So it does claim that a balance will be struck between physical and digital materials. No clue how that will actually manifest. |
Anonymous
Yes but I’m concerned the balance will be more toward digital materials. |
Anonymous
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mcps will prob want to save a buck and only do digital stuff. Hope you have a speedy printer at home with inexpensive ink...
No way in hell Discovery Ed will land any large edu contracts in the U.S. We will move house if they win any part of the contract math, ela, PK, MS, whole thing. they're still experimental so by the prereqs in the RFP, they should not qualify unless you grossly misinterpret things. |
Anonymous
science and social studies were never in scope of the RFP. It has always been ELA and math.. |
Anonymous
It did? what page of Final RFP? |
Anonymous
C2.0 "wove in Science and SS". Now we're out bidding for math and ELA only, to replace the C2.0 math and ela that contained whatever science and SS mcps had. So what does that leave for science and SS? That is the question, and it's not a RFP question. It's what is MCPS going to do for science and SS K-5?? |
Anonymous
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I just filled out the survey, which is not exactly a survey, but prompts the reader to asks questions under the pretense that they are interested in the community feedback. Here is the list of "questions" that I asked:
1. Have you considered excluding Discovery Education from the bidding process taking into account the existing conflict of interest? 2. Have you considered allocating time blocks to science / social science in the students' schedule? 3. Have you considered a more traditional teaching approach with manuals (that help students better keep track of what they are learning) rather than the current approach (that doesn't offer the students an easy way of knowing what they are expected to learn)? |
Anonymous
No clue. Over in the Jack Smith thread, some are claiming science and ss are peachy keen in 2.0. I wonder what they think will happen now that we’re supposedly getting dedicated math and ELA curricula. |
Anonymous
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In exchange for dropping 90 mins/day of math and 90 mins/day of english into 60 mins each slot, then each day now has 60 mins for the new science textbook and new social studies curriculum! alternative days.
Smith can pull it off, go go go! |
Anonymous
You know that people on that thread can read this thread, too, right? That is such an awful misstatement of what people are claiming on that thread. You have the doom and gloom people saying that schools don't cover science / social science because there is no dedicated time slot. Others are saying that their children are learning science despite lack of dedicated time slots. Quite different than your peachy keen description here. |
Anonymous
Could’ve fooled me. The poster talking about her kid learning about butterflies seemed to think science was in a perfectly fine state. And clearly I’m not the only one who thinks there’s a problem with these subjects, considering the number of people discussing it here. |
Anonymous
If you go back where the butterfly story started, you will see that it was in response to somebody claiming that MCPS schools don't teach any science. Your conclusion here shows that your reading comprehension was not at its best. Anyway, we are off-topic on this thread. This is not the right thread if you have anything to contribute to that thread. |
Anonymous
I just read that thread. Nobody is saying that. What people actually did say: 1. My kid is learning science/social studies even though there is no dedicated time slot. 2. My kid is learning science/social studies even though they don't know that butterflies are biology. |