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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Non-Center schools typically don't have enough Level 4 kids to fill up a whole classroom.  The level 4 kids will be mixed in with other kids.  Some schools will have a designated classroom that teaches level 4 material, and principal place non-level 4 kids into the classroom. Other schools use the cluster model so level 4 kids may move around to different classrooms depending on the subject. At a non-center school, they have to keep a certain number (maybe 8?) of level 4 kids together.  If they have more than that number then they can break them out into separate clusters.  [/quote]

At our non-center school, a decent amount of Level 4 kids leave for the center school.  That means that the remaining Level 4 kids are spread around four "general education" classrooms but clustered with Level 3 kids.  My DD is Level 3 part-time AAP and she is in a class of 22 kids.  Of those 22 kids, 6 of them get taken out twice per week by the AART for small group sessions, so we assume that's her "cluster" of Level 4 and Level 3 kids.  Additionally, the non-center school offers advanced math to the students who place in based on the combination of a pre-test, teacher referrals and i-ready scores.  The majority of remaining Level 4 kids, Level 3 kids and others who are high scorers in math place into that class.

Because so many kids leave for the center school, there are definitely not enough Level 4 kids to fill up an entire classroom.  You are correct that they are mixed in with other kids, but I do think that there's a decent amount of differentiation / challenging work, especially when they are placed in clusters/cohorts with the Level 3 part-time AAP kids. [/quote]

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