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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCPS follow the school-wide enrichment model, so something like tracking into a different class is not officially allowed. This is something I would expect a student’s teacher to be able to accommodate through small group instruction. DCPS is shifting to a big push for a focus on math, so math instruction will likely look different in the coming years.[/quote]

It may be that different schools accommodate differently, but at my kid's school there are definitely some kids who get special pullouts for advanced study and even some who attend classes with a different grade level. My kid is in K at LT. The large majority of instruction is group-based for both math and ELA and there is a huge gulf between what the top group is doing and the bottom group. But, on top of that, I know that sometimes kids in the top reading group get pulled by the school's reading coach for instruction outside the classroom. Then there is also one student who goes to 2nd grade for math. [/quote]

Thanks for naming the school. I don’t understand why no one else will; most posts contain almost no personally identifiable info. Anyway, good to know LT seems to offer at least some true differentiation. How did the K kid who goes to second get picked for that?[/quote]

FYI, above is not true differentiation.  Above is pull out or sending a kid to a different class.

True differentiation happens within the classroom by the teacher.  This is almost impossible to do effectively when you have class sizes of more than 14 or 15 kids.[/quote]

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