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[quote=Anonymous]I'm sorry you all have had some of these experiences.  I guess I'm fortunate enough to work in a school where nearly everyone seems to want to do right by kids.  In regards to MIRL it is simply an acronym for Monitoring Instructional Reading Levels.  Each teacher (K to 5) must submit their students' instructional reading levels every month to a data base.  We have to report out each student's accuracy, fluency, comprehension, and instructional level.  There's also a column for teachers to enter instructional notes about the reading behaviors he/she is seeing the child exhibit (strengths/barriers).  While giving kids running records (to assess reading levels), comprehension checks, and anecdotal notes is nothing new...it ensures ALL teachers in MCPS are regularly monitoring students' reading levels.  Next year, there will be something similar put in place for math.  I believe all K to 5 teachers will have to provide (and report out) on three common assessments per marking period.  When Curriculum 2.0 rolled out we were no longer given the old Unit Assessments that were required for all students to take at the end of each unit.  These scores were put in to a data base and tracked by administrators and central office.  Curriculum 2.0 does offer MCPS formative assessments but up until now, there hasn't been a district-wide mandate that teachers actually give them to their kids and report out their scores.  The pendulum for accountability is definitely sweeping back again.  I like the idea of it but it's not always so easy to accomplish with class sizes at 30 or 31 kids.[/quote]

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