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[quote=Anonymous]Cluster 5, OP.

Basically the replacement arrangement for Compacted 4/5, but intended to be for fewer identified students, with a good portion of others who previously might have been in that 4/5 class being assigned to group 4 ("grade level with enrichment and some acceleration").  Likely to continue as Group 5 throughout, including for 5th grade the following year, but that is supposed to be based on quarterly assessment.

Group 5 also is more likely to be assigned to PreAlgebra in 6th when they get to that grade, and then Integrated Algebra 1 & 2 in 7th/8th, with PreCalc in 9th, if selecting the Calc path.  Not all students in Group 5 are expected to do that.  Some may not be recommended for PreAlgebra and families will be given a choice to go with the next level down even if they are recommended for it.

That next level down would skip less content by covering all of 6th/7th/8th standards in two years (vs. PreAlgebra's 7th & 8th in one), like AMP 6+/7+ have done the past couple of years under the Illustrative Math curriculum (Amplify Desmos, the new curriculum, is reasonably closely related to Illustrative Math).  It would see the new 2-year Integrated Algebra sequence finish in 9th, with the 3 post-Algebra pathways beginning in 10th (again, PreCalc for that Calc pathway).

The table showing just "w/Accel" instead of specific cluster groupings is supposed to be illustrative of possibilities, not to be conprehensive or deterministic.  Of course, providing that instead of a comprehensive table with full criteria is going to cause some confusion, but they are still working on it and want some flexibility to that.[/quote]

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