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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

What about music and PE?[/quote]

8th doesn't have music as a class (just orchestra, band, jazz band, two choirs, and musical theatre as elective clubs), so no issue with music staff by adding an 8th grade section, and they have plenty PE teachers already. One more team shouldn't make a difference there.[/quote]

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