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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree. The ELC curriculum itself is gone. Best message is to keep an advanced class, rather than asking teachers to offer enrichment to just some students in an all-levels class.[/quote] i mean it’s worth a try?[/quote]

Some schools are retaining cohorted classes, but most are not. The time to advocate is now -- this will be a done deal after school ends.[/quote]

So there's two things people can advocate for:
1) At individual schools, advocating for cohorted classes (will be finalized this month)
2) At the MCPS level, advocating for what they should include in the "extras" added onto the CKLA curriculum for students receiving enrichment (for either model.). I believe the AEI office staff are the ones designing this, and I believe it will be sent out to schools in August.

For #2, if there are things you particularly loved and/or valued about ELC, you could contact AEI to urge them to include some of that in the enrichment materials and resources they are developing and asking schools to layer onto the CKLA curriculum.  
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The thing I valued about ELC was having it as a separate class. That's going away.

They can put whatever they want as an enrichment resource--we all know that teachers will be focused on struggling students in their class. Kids who need enrichment won't receive it.[/quote]

So was the value of the ELC only ever just the cohort?  The curriculum wasn't that good and there's nothing to worry about losing from it?  If all schools did the cohorted model with CKLA, would that be just as good as the ELC and that's the only thing we need to advocate for?[/quote]

The ELC class, like the CES program, had a completely separate curriculum.  It was not using Benchmark nor CKLA.[/quote]

That's not what the PP said.  They were referring to the future... "If all schools did the cohort model with CKLA..."[/quote]

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