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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Wiley Bates Middle School in Annapolis is known for its performing and visual arts magnet program, but the school has now scored big points for how well students performed on the PARCC high school level Algebra one test.

"It's pretty much what I would say is the old-fashioned Algebra," teacher Kristi Giuliano said.

At Bates, 92.2 percent of students scored in the 4 and 5 category, with 5 being the very best and 4 considered meeting expectations. The school's Algebra 1 teacher said success is not accidental.

"I do a lot of redo assessments. They do daily quizzes. They appreciate that feedback and its skilled-based learning so that's what we do," math teacher Kristi Giuliano said.[/b]

http://www.wbaltv.com/education/maryland-district-specific-parcc-test-scores-released/36284126

Watch the video, she is actually WRITING on a white board as opposed it using a Promethian board to flash up problems and answers.

MCPS should take notice, this is how to get kids to do well in math.  Go back to basic teaching![/quote]

Bates is actually a really interesting model and I think more attention should be paid to the magnet programs in AACPS.  
Students inbound for Bates are primarily poor minority students, with a very high percentage of ESOL students compared to most of the school district.  It was a really rough school in the not-too-distant past.  Then in 2009 they put the first performing and visual arts magnet in the school.  That attracted a lot of white, upper middle class students who lived in Annapolis and typically went to private schools as well as kids from other parts of Anne Arundel.  The cynical view is that the school district just wanted to improve average test scores at Bates.  And they certainly did that.  But they also totally changed the dynamic at the school.  Suddenly you have involved parents and engaged kids.  Classrooms with students who are modeling expected behavior.  Teachers with elevated expectations of what middle school kids can do.  And this worked to benefit ALL the children.  Walking into that building now is really an exciting place to be.  There's a positive energy and a lot of really awesome things happening.  Certainly it hasn't been a panacea.  There are still too many poor, minority, ESOL kids who are failing.  The top classes are over-representative of the magnet students and the bottom classes are over representative of the poorest students.  
But it's not like Annapolis HS where the IB kids and the local kids barely even interact, and all the magnet program did was to effectively add a second school in the same building.  The introduction of the magnet program really changed Bates at a fundamental level.

I don't know as much about the Annapolis Middle School IB magnet program, but from what I hear it's been reasonably successful too.[/quote]

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