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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can somebody explain to me the difference between CES and ELC?[/quote]

CES is a magnet, meaning that most kids will change schools to attend. A handful of schools have "local CES" programs, but the vast majority of kids in MCPS who attend a CES program are changing their school assignment for 4th and 5th. It has self-contained classrooms and an enhanced literacy curriculum that is writing-heavy and focused on project-based learning. Because it is a humanities program, it tends to wrap around the other subjects as well. So, if the kids are studying Greek Myths in Language Arts, they are also learning about Greek society in Social Studies, and then science will have a unit on the physics of a Greek ballista.

ELC sits within a child's home school, and is usually handled by splitting kids up during the ELC block or blocks. So, your 4th grader might have "homeroom" with Ms. Smith but then go to Ms. Jones' classroom for ELC along with all of the other kids identified for ELC. In theory, the ELC curriculum mirrors the CES curriculum and I think that's more true in some schools than others. ELC is still pretty new even for the schools that were part of the pilot phase, so it's a little bit of a process to get the teachers trained up and to integrate best practices in gifted learning.

Still....ELC is better than nothing and it has the potential to really fill the gap that is being left by the lottery system. [/quote]

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