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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I could care less about the label.  What's important is that the students get the support and level of academic challenge that's appropriate to their level of capability.

SEM, as implemented in DCPS, appears to just be in-class differentiation.  Historically, differentiation at DCPS has been in name only, they teach to the middle and ignore everyone else.  The majority of teachers cannot do differentiation well.

Even so, DCPS does not implement the full SEM model, they only do a few small pieces.  There's no real opportunity in DCPS for acceleration.  Maybe it's a start - but it's a very small one and they have very far to go if they want to attract or retain students.[/quote]

DCPS does not implement the full SEM model, they only do a few small pieces? The link that someone gave a few postings back says "SEM is a non-traditional approach to gifted and talented education developed originally by Dr. Joseph Renzulli, director of the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented. [b]Each SEM school has one full-time, professionally-trained enrichment resource teacher who facilitates a wide range of academic course offerings that falls largely outside of the core curriculum.[/b] For more information on the SEM program, please see our SEM FAQ Page."

That's not "just in-class differentiation". How come you didn't get your information correct before making incorrect assumptions?

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