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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"It also is important to note that the current acceleration option in 4th & 5th grade, Compacted 4/5 & Compacted 5/6, is built from a Eureka curriculum that is not designed for compaction, and the pandemic has made it difficult to spend the time to customize it. "

Why would a curriculum be chosen that was not designed for enrichment? That was one of the issues with 2.0 that our new curriculum was supposed to address. What has the curriculum office been doing during the pandemic? How many staff members are we paying? Not one of them could be assigned to figure out a way to accelerate Eureka? I call BS on that.[/quote]

I'm a different poster than the very articulate one above, but my understanding is that they selected Eureka understanding that they needed to have a specialized version of Eureka developed to solve the 4/5, 5/6 issue, but in the meantime they were going to continue with 2.0.  Then the pandemic hit, and they decided suddenly to shift everyone to Eureka.  I don't know why.  [/quote]

I think that Eureka had enrichment options -- think breadth, more examples and maybe deeper understanding -- but wasn't designed for acceleration of the 4/5 & 5/6 type to move kids ahead a year, where 2.0 was more amenable (or had that designed in).  That was a point of contention when they selected Eureka as the math curriculum going forward.  They stuck with 2.0 for acceleration for a year because of that, but they did shift to Eureka this year, kind of just running through the entire year and a half of curriculum instead of having weeded it to reduce the load.  That is something it's going to take them time to do, and it's why they might consider other options, such as developing a custom compacted curriculum.

I don't know the numbers as far as staffing goes  or the specifics of the assignments; I do see a number of vacancies listed in the staff lists of associated offices, though.  I'd have hoped for them to have gotten to this, too, but I'd guess that there was plenty of work in comparison to a normal year, and that this was one of many areas where resolution was postponed.[/quote]

I hear Discovery education could help with that...[/quote]

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