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[quote=Anonymous]MSDE guidance for their new math acceleration policies starting in 2027-2028 are up [url=https://www.marylandpublicschools.org/about/pages/dcaa/math/math-policy-guidance.aspx]here[/url]-- there's a guidance document and some appendices, of which the [url=https://www.marylandpublicschools.org/about/documents/dcaa/math/acceleration-progressions-guidance-a.pdf]Sample Acceleration Progressions[/url] seems particularly interesting.

Curious other folks' take on it but it looks to me like it includes:
-- An expectation that districts offer compacted math (they call it "telescoping" but make clear it's the same thing, moving through more than one year of math content in a year), I think in grades 4-8 specifically which is when MCPS already does it 
-- An expectation that districts offer cluster grouping of kids in grade-level math who do "extensions" covering some of the next year's math content as an "on ramp" to compacting/telescoping in future years (looks like this would likely start in 3rd grade but also be used later on to support kids entering compacted math at higher grades)
-- An expectation that districts offer skipping ahead grades in math ("grade-level subject acceleration") if all grade-level standards have been mastered-- they give an example of a 2nd grader in the 98th-99th percentile, but it looks like this could be in any grade 
-- A process with an Individualized Acceleration Plan (IAP) developed by an Acceleration Committee (i.e. teacher, school staff, parents, child) with a multi-year trajectory and annual check-ins  
-- Automatic acceleration for any kid scoring a 4 on the math MCAP 
-- Students scoring 90-99th percentile on CogAT or similar tests "should be formally considered for advanced acceleration options as appropriate"

There may be more coming regarding enrichment, especially in the lower grades, in the MTSS guidance which isn't out yet but is supposed to be out soon-- these documents are specifically about acceleration.

What do folks think of this and what it means for MCPS?[/quote]

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