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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd watched the general audience-targeted webinar videos and found them light on specifics so I watched this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siS8jlTcUzo  that was for teachers.

It has more specifics about how the 8-10 Essential Concepts would replace Alg 1-Geo-Alg 2 and, in theory, it seems fine if they are planning *as they said* to have students in a position to take pre-calc in 11th, calc in 12th.  However, I still think they are completely fooling themselves if they think they can keep up the pace to cover the essentials of alg 1/geo/alg 2 for students to be ready if they insist on heterogeneous classrooms and groups. And the teachers know it too - they start with polling teachers about the idea that it's bad to "isolate" lower performers in separate groups and were disappointed that most of the audience disagree that it's a bad thing.  And then when they supposedly are soliciting feedback all they ask about is what "excites" you about this idea.  Zero solicitation about what concerns you.  Reads to me as they don't want any constructive feedback to improve the plan, probably why they aren't going to pilot this on a small scale first.[/quote]

One of the presentations did say they were going to pilot it. I can dig it up tomorrow. 
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They have said they are piloting the new semester classes for 11-12th. Nothing on the plan to pilot the new K-10 path.[/quote]

That’s disappointing- I think a pilot would be critical for success for such a big change. 
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