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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone know how long and extensive the process is for starting LLIV at your home school? I plan to encourage our school to look at this (don't know if they have already but i have not heard it's been discussed if so) but also wanted to get an idea from those that have already successfully campaigned for LLIV at their school - how long is that process and how much work is it really for the principal vs. not having LLIV?

Is it simply: 1) hiring an AAP teacher (who then uses the FCPS established AAP curriculum) instead of a regular teacher and 2) filling in the rest of the class with additional kids below the level 4 cut-off? Or more complicated than that? [/quote]

Typically, the board makes this decision. And I would assume (just from anecdotal information) if the school that you are interesting in starting LLIV has enough students to send an entire class (say, 20-25 kids per year) to a center, then LLIV would be investigated.

It takes a couple of year, min. from my recollection. I also know that it requires the numbers. Meaning, if you have like 5 AAP kids, it's not happening.[/quote]

Irving's LLIV was put together very quickly, I believe just a few months from idea to implementation.

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I think there was talk about Irving going in for years, before it was approved and implemented. But it still took the right numbers, the right admin, the right politics.

It's definitely not parent driven. If you don't fit the right metrics, they won't do it because they need to be able to fill the center schools too. I know of one center that lost in entire class this year because of LLIV started in another school.

The numbers have to work regardless.[/quote]

Absolutely.

But once the district decided to do it, the process went VERY quickly from notification to Irving to the announcement at the feeder school to enrollment.

I believe the school found out in late spring, the announcement came in a day or two and parent presentations were a week after the announcement.  Irving moved very quickly.

They had teachers who had formerly taught at center schools, so those were the ones put in charge of the program.

That announcement came after kids had committed to LB AAP or Irving Honors, so the first year was small.

The program has definitely grown though.

All of it was district driven. The administration at Irving preferred to not be a center school.[/quote]

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