Reply to Eliot-Hine

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Eliot-Hine"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The percentage of kids below/at grade level really is not a function of how effective the school is.  SO many students arrive at middle school incredibly far behind where they should be.  This is a function of so many factors, including quality of elementary school education, pandemic, socioeconomic status, etc. While there is still a lot of progress to be made, the school was recognized earlier this school year for math and reading growth that exceeds other middle schools.[/quote]

This. Middle school PARCC scores are just not a very informative metric. A middle school only has three years with each kid, best case scenario, to make up for them being many years behind when they come in. Look to growth metrics and other quality indicators such as retention and published student work.[/quote]

My concern would be about the energy/resources that need to be spent on the very large majority of remedial students.  Does the school end up so focused on their needs that it isn't able to give adequate attention to kids who are on- and above-grade level.  What does the tracking look like?  In my public middle school we had honors classes for all four core subjects, but my impression has been that EH does not.  Would be delighted to be wrong.[/quote]

DCPS in general does not offer honors in all subjects, but it does in math. EH may not have been in the past , but currently has tracks for kids to get to geometry or algebra in 8th grade.

Separately, they do a block schedule, not sure if all middle schools do that, so they have four periods per day, for a longer amount of time. Regarding homework, I have been told some of the writing assignments and other work that would be homework is done in class because of those longer blocks.

They have ABABA weeks, then the next week BABAB schedules.

They have band during the day, as well as art and the Eliot Hine network. Also lots of clubs (debate, theatre, book clubs, writing, cooking etc). Lots of sports  options as well.

Higher Achievement is run out of the school during after school hours if kids are interested.

I know the topic of computers has come up, and while there are pros and cons, I will say as somebody who was advanced as a kid and often finished assignments early and forced do some not engaging busy work or flash cards, etc - having an option to do an activity on a computer if they finish early that is tailored to their level is not a bad thing IMO.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics