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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are upset then get in touch with Taylor and the BOE. This is not a surprise to me. There have been other threads throughout this year that that have said ELC will be gone because central office is replacing it with the CKLA base plus enrichment during WIN time. CKLA has been much better than Benchmark for my kids, and our school does a good job actually offering enrichment in WIN time. But if yours doesn’t, then advocate for changes that meet the needs of your kids. Without a strong push among many parents, MCPS will not change this. [/quote]

A 30min WIN time vs a whole language arts block are not the same thing.  Particularly given that class sizes are not decreasing.[/quote]

Then organize parents for that change. Complaining kn here will not change anything, guaranteed. [/quote]

Can you stop posting here telling people to stop posting here?[/quote]

People are welcome to post here. It will not make a difference if it is not accompanied by advocacy. And LOTS of advocacy, by parents across the county, not just in wealthy clusters.[/quote]

Well some of us are posting here because we need help figuring out how to do the advocacy!

We need help understanding exactly who is making these decisions and why, so we can understand what steps to take next.  And we need help figuring out how we can coordinate with other parents to make changes rather than acting individually... is the PTA gifted committee a good way to do that, or do we need something else?[/quote]

See above. You want to email and call Taylor and the leadership in the Office of Curriculum and Instructional Programming. Testify before BoE meetings. Attend and speak up in the budget process. Most important, get other parents across the county to do the same. [/quote]

Who are the decision-makers in the Office of Curriculum and Instructional Programming?[/quote]

Brown, Mrs. Melaika A 
Supervisor, Elementary English/LA
Melaika_A_Brown@mcpsmd.org

Logan, Dr. Kisha
Department of Pre-K-12 Curriculum 
Director II
Kisha_Logan@mcpsmd.org

Hazel, Mrs. Niki T
Office of Curriculum and Instructional Programs
Associate Superintendent
Niki_T_Hazel@mcpsmd.org[/quote]

Thanks!  Do you know which of these is likely the actual one driving this change?[/quote]

Hazel is the highest one, so she would be the one with the most influence.

I'd add the supervisor of AEI, Kristie Clark, to your list. That office is very weak so not the primary target, but good to include her:

Kristie_L_Clark@mcpsmd.org

And I'd put the superintendent on:

Thomas_W_Taylor@mcpsmd.org

-DP[/quote]

Another DP.  This is just to consider when contacting/addressing the parties. It also isn't quite this clear cut, but, to my experience/understanding:

Hazel and above (and some parallel) drive this.
Logan and, to some degree, Clark facilitate/navigate.
Brown implements (at the curricular level, not at the school level).

Taylor is aware by now, but it is unclear if he has adopted the philosophical stance of prior administrations or is leaving their general/anemic approach to GT/enrichment unchanged due to organizational/budgetary exigencies.

In the feudal way things are set up, nobody from OCIP really controls what happens in the local school administrations' implementations outside of the curricula/supports that are generally available.

At the local school level, individual PTAs/groups of parents have been successful in some, but not all, related advocacy when they have been vocal and well resourced.  The things that have moved the needle at the county and state level took herculean advocacy efforts over years, often with the children of advocacy leads having passed the grades affected prior to any real change, not unlike other socio-political movements.[/quote]

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