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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Deal is excellent. It is an IB MYP program. They are expanding the 6th and 7th grade classes next year -- adding new "Teams" [b]so individual classes will be smaller.[/b] They are also adding a 4th language: Arabic.[/quote]

What will be the target size for each team and for each class?[/quote]

I don't know. Principal just said they are adding teams, so the current 4 6th grade teams will become 5 7th grade teams, which means 4 more core class teachers. You can assume that with 535 students (I think), this puts about 107-110 per team, divided among 6 classes per day -- that can make for some classes as small as 17 depending on how they divide it up, but probably a little bigger than that so they don't swamp the foreign language and arts/PE teachers. Just a guess though.[/quote]

Is there classroom space for adding four more class teachers, in each grade? That does not sound realistic.[/quote]

Where did you hear that, heard 8th was expanding because the current students moving up. Agree where are they going to go?[/quote]

Current 6th grade Deal parent - there are already 5, 6th grade teams. I believe there are only 4, 7th grade teams, so maybe the expansion you are referring to would be 5, 8th grade teams next year? [/quote]

There are four 8th grade teams, five each of 6th and 7th. http://alicedeal.org/2017-2018-staff-directory/

The rising class of 6th graders is another bubble class, so will need at least five teams, which means they will need one more 8th grade team next year -- four more core teachers and perhaps another language teacher and possibly another art teacher.[/quote]

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