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[quote=Anonymous]DP.  I think the point about the long "process" is more about the amount of time it's taken to procure a new curriculum since Benchmark was finally determined to be inadequate by MCPS and the longer time it had been seen that way by a large portuin of teachers and families.  The relative recency of the Benchmark choice had something to do with that -- nobody wants constant churn in curricula and staff capacity is limited so that there is a staggering of evaluatuon/procurement activity.  Everything got shifted to the right with the pandemic, as well.

Last year's effort got mired in a disconnect between the curriculum office and members of the BOE who wanted greater diversity representation.  Another reason to want BOE members covered for full-time-level involvement with adequate staff to have these things hashed out earlier/avoid wasted effort (though I'm sure there were insights gained that helped the current process).

The current evaluation, though not taking years, inherits from the above.  Mix in the effort to construct/disseminate the ELC over the past few years to supplement where BA came up so short, and it makes it seem like the process of getting a new LA curriculum has been going on for a very long time, indeed.

I hope the currently proposed curriculum works out better.  As PP points out, greater transparency would be great -- not just MCCPTA involvement, which is very good to have, but easily accessed meeting notes, etc., for any seeking to understand the process, priorities and reasoning.  I haven't been involved in this, but,  from other conversations about curricula, I think most concerns would tend to be met with rather rational justifications; I've found that the line staff working on these things tend to be pretty smart and dedicated folks.[/quote]

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