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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At what point in the school year does your school start this?  Our school uses responsive classroom and at our parent-teacher conference two weeks ago for an upper elementary grade, they said that they were just about to start forming the small groups for math and reading.  They didn't explicitly say the delay is due to but the sense they conveyed is that the delay is due to focusing on building classroom community and waiting for testing (DIBELS, TRC, I-ready) results.

It strikes me as rather late in the game but perhaps this is the norm?

We go to a well-regarded school on Capitol Hill.[/quote]

OP...to the lay person, like yourself, forming differentiated small groups in October is late.  However, to the professional educator, it makes sense to wait until you have collected and analyzed student data before you plan for small groups.  DIBELS, TRC, i-ready, ANet, etc are standards based assessments that are generally scheduled after the third week of school.  For example, if your child's Capitol Hill school calendared the TRC for the week of 9/24/15, and it is reasonable to expect a week for testing, then your child's Capitol Hill school won't get the data until the first week in October.  So, it makes perfect sense that your child's well-regarded Capitol Hill school would form differentiated small groups this late in the year.[/quote]

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