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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think this sounds like a set up to fail. Unless you give preference to Montessori feeders. Otherwise you may be getting a lot kids who are two or three grades behind by the time they start middle school and will need extensive support from teachers and that’s not what they will get from Montessori at that level.  [/quote]

Montessori done right is personalized learning that gives each kid what he or she needs. Children poorly served by a one size fits all approach can do great things in an individualized program. [/quote]

Absolutely agree! People who are totally ignorant about Montessori support, I guess, traditional educational approaches that have been failing kids for decades. SMH.[/quote]

Lee, which is spearheading this initiative isn't succeeding any better than any other school in this regard. Both Lee and SSMA are solidly 3-star.

In fact, Lee's ELA proficiency rate (4+) on PARCC is only 5% better than the DC average, and it is below the DC average in math proficiency. SSMA's achievement data is equally meh.

Yes, there are relatively few students in the testing grades, but let's not get carried about with the benefits of personalized learning, or complaints about traditional education failing students.

The only Montessori public in the city that is beating the city-wide proficiency averages in both ELA and math is LAMB (which many call Montessori-lite).

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Dude, Lee's testing group was tiny. Their 3rd grade was a third of a classroom last year, wasn't it?[/quote]

There was also a small set of 4th graders.  But agree it was a small enough cohort that the data just isn't in yet either way.  I was surprised they even had to report since I thought you needed 25 test takers to report. But it is too early to congratulate themselves either.

There are kids that it is really hard to educate either because they have learning disabilities or other brain differences like adhd or because they are carrying social and/or emotional burdens. The thing I like about Montessori is that it can give these kids a safe place without competition and with personalized care. However, it's not clear yet whether it can move the needle academically for these kids.

One thing I wonder about, and I haven't read the report, is staffing.  Will there be enough aides and assistants to provide redirection and personalized attention to the at risk kids and the non-montessori kids.  Everyone in this thread  assumes that it will be a high SES school, but the upper grades at Lee and SSMA look a lot like the upper grades at all the hrcs except YY and Lamb that cut off enrollment.  In other words, more economically diverse than the lower grades. And as previously mentioned, these upper grades are small.  They are not going to get 60% kids from Montessori feeders at first.
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