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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Posting this here since it is popping up a bit in the AAP thread but it would impact all types of students…

Some here may that last year VDOE proposed in its VMPI (VA math pathways initiative) to do away with any type of math grouping of kids before 11th grade so that the only potential differentiation for math that would be delivered would be in-class (as in what happens in K-2 now, not what happens in 3-12 now). VDOE then stepped away from that idea after backlash.

Apparently FCPS is piloting this idea now though at the ES level and intends to expand it over the next few years. This is part of their published improvement plan. My youngest is in 5th so I don’t have a direct dog in this fight but thought others with younger kids may want to be aware and on the lookout for when the proposal gets drafted for expanding this program. Link and details below:

https://www.fcps.edu/node/44416
 
“Partner with the Advanced Academic Office to launch the Engaging, Enhanced, and Extended Mathematics (E3) Network, a group of 10 schools from across the division that will implement E3. The purpose of E3 is to broaden the access for all third and fourth graders to a more rigorous curriculum in elementary mathematics. E3 raises the rigor for all students through an enhanced program of studies that layers more opportunities for depth and complexity through flexible delivery of Advanced Academic extensions.
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Write and obtain feedback on a five-year strategic plan to implement…the expansion of E3 in elementary schools. [/quote]

E3 is just a curriculum designed to raise the bar in gen Ed. This says nothing about not being allowed to have advanced math groups. [/quote]

From the above coupled with what PPs have posted in other threads on it, E3 seems to mean that all the kids are in the same math class together and there is no advanced math class (as in grouped at a class level to move quicker). Call me super skeptical that eliminating the whole class grouping of kids quicker at math will still result in math being taught well for those that need it. You can raise the bar in GE without eliminating whole class faster math instruction - but this program does not seem to have taken that path from what I have seen posted and from interpreting the FCPS language above. [/quote]

You are reading the document completely wrong then. It’s from the School Improvement plan which has a goal to raise SOL scores overall. One way they will do this is by using the E3 curriculum in all classes. It doesn’t say anything about we won’t have different groupings for math. You are really reaching.[/quote]

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