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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS should stop wasting money on surveys and contractors and start focusing on properly educating all the kids who meet the parameters for CES/enrichment/magnet schools.  Or perhaps MCPS needs to also ask why so many kids qualify for these enhancement programs? Maybe educational standards need to go up. These lotteries are ridiculous.[/quote]

Agreed.  [/quote]

+1 Maybe raise the bar to top 2 percent, the way CTY does, to enter the lottery, and moderate or high FARMs can be locally normed.[/quote]

Maybe we could actually dedicate money and resources to expanding the enriched studies program so that every kid who qualifies can access that instruction.[/quote]

Most of the new funds this past year went to increasing the number of Central Office positions. [/quote]

While there may be new central office positions, ELC is also expanding to all schools so there is supposed to be enrichment available at all schools.  How the implement it we will see, but I've heard great things about it from other schools.   I find this encouraging. [/quote]

Correct, and I want to pull this out because I think it will reassure some parents on this thread, but also encourage them to get involved in advocacy. There is a large-scale enlargement of the ELC curriculum coming for next year's 4th graders. Almost every school in MCPS will get the curriculum.

[u]However, contrary to the intent of the ELC and in opposition to best practice for GT education[/u], many schools will be rolling out the new curriculum to every single 4th grader and with no cohorting. That is, it amounts to a change in the reading/ELA curriculum but classes will remain heterogenous.

When the ELC was piloted, it was always meant to serve the needs to highly able learners, and to cohort them with one another for ELA. It was meant to provide an appropriate education, with academic peers, in the home school and without the trouble of changing to a CES.

This matters because MCPS had found that BIPOC kids and poor/working class kids were far less likely to accept CES placements than their white/Asian and middle class peers. Providing an appropriate, differentiated, education in the home school was meant to serve those kids in their home environment while not creating logistical challenges for their families.

So, the good news is that every kid who qualified for the lottery will have access to the ELC curriculum next year (almost). The bad news is that principals may decide NOT to cohort those kids together.

[b]The opportunity to advocate for the lottery-eligible kids to receive the ELC curriculum together is right now.[/b] Literally right now. Call/email/show up to PTA meetings and ask your principals how they intend to handle the ELC rollout. If they are going to offer it to every single kid without differentiating or cohorting the highly able learners, get in touch with the MCCPTA Gifted Committee and ask them for help advocating to the next level.

You can check them out here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/875483609961996[/quote]

MCPS teacher w/ an MCPS 3rd grader here--this is very true. I reached out the reading specialist at my kid's school (qualified for lottery but did not get placed, will receive ELC) to ask about what it would look like in our home school next year, which would help us determine whether we would accept a CES spot if offered. I was told that this:
-a dedicated teacher will pull the ELC students into another classroom for the entire ELA block every day
-all students who qualified for the lottery will be in this group
-classroom teachers and others involved in 3rd grade (I'm guessing SpEd, ESOL, etc) will meet soon and add students who did not qualify for the lottery but teachers feel would benefit from the ELC

This is just what I was told about my kids' home school. I'm sure it will look different in other schools (although this sounds very similar to what my school is doing). As with everything, if you want to know what's happening in your child's school, just ask! Email the reading specialist and ask what ELC implementation will look like.[/quote]

This sounds great. Can you share the school? [/quote]

This sounds like what Central Office is recommending according to the person I spoke to on the phone about my kid in the wait pool.  I hope it's what will happen at most schools once the schools have more information about ELC and any changes with Benchmark. [/quote]

If this is the case and if the home school has the ELC then what is the advantage of going to a CES? Just the cohort? My DD was accepted and I'm just trying to figure out whether it makes sense for her. I wonder how many kids at the home school qualify for the ELC. Would people expect that it is a full class of kids?[/quote]

I'd call your school and ask and also check with the CES.  I'm pretty sure you will be able to go to the CES for an open house or something after spring break.  At CES the kids stay together all day except for math, sounds like ELC they might be together just for reading and writing. [/quote]

At CCES the CES kids are together for all subjects, including math. They all do compacted math in their own cohorts, but mixed with the general population for anything during the school day. [/quote]

Typo there - it should say that CCES does NOT mix CES kids at all with the general population during the day. The only time they interact is during afterschool activities. [/quote]

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