Compacted Math- FYI

[Anonymous]

I just left a meeting and was told that very few kids currently enrolled in Compacted 4/5 would move on to Compacted 5/6. There are strict guidelines coming from the county level and principals are not allowed around it. These include MAP scores and scores from performance matters testing. It sounds like around 30 total kids countywide will move on.

Compacted 4/5 will be decided on the county level. Don't expect many to get in.

[Anonymous]

How will they accommodate 30 kids total...that is less than 1 kid per school.

[Anonymous]

What is “performance matters testing”?
And was this meeting at a school level or MCpS level?

[Anonymous]

Performance Matters tests are the end-of-unit tests that the kids are required to take. They take them at all grade levels and it is what the county uses to make sure that kids across the county are all getting similar instruction.

The meeting and guidance is countywide and I think the instruction might be virtual, though I don't know. Most schools will not have any kids in the class. Really, for the kids to score as high as required, they would need to be in the CES so it might be limited to a small group in those schools.

[Anonymous]

Do you know anything about what is happening to the kids currently in compacted 5/6? Are the plans for middle school math clear yet?

[Anonymous]

DC's compacted 5/6 is incredibly easy for them. Their class is on track and where they are supposed to be. Most kids seem to be doing fine according to DC so my guess is this is probably just at your school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Performance Matters tests are the end-of-unit tests that the kids are required to take. They take them at all grade levels and it is what the county uses to make sure that kids across the county are all getting similar instruction.

The meeting and guidance is countywide and I think the instruction might be virtual, though I don't know. Most schools will not have any kids in the class. Really, for the kids to score as high as required, they would need to be in the CES so it might be limited to a small group in those schools.

What is the score requirement?

[Anonymous]

30 kids countywide?

I also heard this - that they are reducing the # of kids who will move to 5/6 from 4/5 - but was told it would be more like half the kids in it now. So for example, our school has 4 4th grade classes. For math, there are 2 that are 4th and 2 that are 4/5. I was told next year it's likely only one 5/6, so a bunch of kids (including mine most likely) will be 'dropped.'

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Performance Matters tests are the end-of-unit tests that the kids are required to take. They take them at all grade levels and it is what the county uses to make sure that kids across the county are all getting similar instruction.

The meeting and guidance is countywide and I think the instruction might be virtual, though I don't know. Most schools will not have any kids in the class. Really, for the kids to score as high as required, they would need to be in the CES so it might be limited to a small group in those schools.

30 kids countywide makes no sense, agreed - those kids then might as well be in CES. I don't think that stat is accurate.

[Anonymous]

Some schools have everyone in compact math. Will they really have every single kid repeating?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some schools have everyone in compact math. Will they really have every single kid repeating?

They do? Then what's the point of it?

[Anonymous]

I'm a different teacher. This is accurate based on the information being shared today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a different teacher. This is accurate based on the information being shared today.

30 kids in all of MCPS? How would that work logistically, and what is the point?

[Anonymous]

So that means no one will get to 7th grade algebra that year (aside from the 30 chosen kids) or will they just hold them back in 5th and the accelerate some/many again in 6th.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a different teacher. This is accurate based on the information being shared today.

30 kids in all of MCPS? How would that work logistically, and what is the point?

Their Virtual Academy? Lol. They probably haven't thought that far ahead.