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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Recognizing that Equity Troll is here in full force—

E3 has not been expanded to all schools.

The changes in 3rd grade advanced math ARE bumping more of the 4th grade standards to 4th grade advanced math. 3rd advanced math includes about 50% of the 4th grade standards, whereas it used to be 80% of the 4th grade standards. So all of the 3rd grade standards and about 1/2 of 4th are now being taught in advanced math. Next year, 4th advanced math will include the other 50% of the 4th grade standards and all of 5th— it’s still under construction.

5th advanced math will continue to teach all of the 6th grade content and 5th advanced math students will continue to take the 6th grade SOL.

People are confusing the change in standards from the VDOE (we had the normal every 7 years update— it’s mostly minor tweaks) with shifting 3rd and 4th grade advanced math so the “extra” standards are more evenly distributed across the two grades.

None of this is E3, which is a whole different program. If someone said it was going district wide at AAP orientation they were mistaken— I run that orientation at my school and there was nothing about E3.

All that said, I currently teach full time AAP, and prior to this I spent several years at one of a highly regarded area independent school. Students who came to us from FCPS AAP were able typically ahead in math.

People need to not get too excited about the new LA curriculum in FCPS though. There is plenty of phonics. Lots and lots of phonics. Lots of snippets of text with comprehension strategy lessons. [b]But very little reading of actual books. The book clubs and in depth exploration of literature we were able to do in full time AAP— even in elementary— are no more.[/b] There are AAP “supplements” which again are isolated lessons without real depth. [/quote]

I'm sorry, but those book clubs have absolutely nothing on the level of reading comprehension my kids are getting in private school. Nothing. There is simply no substitute for a knowledge based curriculum with real whole class books. I'm sure you were proud of what you did in your class and I'm sure you did your best, but the modern way of teaching language arts is terrible. Even if you slap phonics on it (though that helps).

And as far as E3, if an AART at an E3 school said the pilot was done because the standards were shifting, that doesn't mean they told all schools that. The changes to the 3rd grade standards are real and you confirmed it.[/quote]

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