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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FAQ and links to the "research" they are citing is now up: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/math/[/quote]

Thanks for sharing. I found the last link on this website to defend their clustering method profoundly different from what MCPS CO shared to BOE:

In this article, it explicitly said:
"In gifted cluster classes, any student may try to demonstrate that he or she has already mastered the upcoming standards and thus participate in the various differentiated tasks planned for gifted students. For advanced learners, however, differentiation is only part of what they need. [b]Effective differentiation must be accompanied by curriculum or lesson compacting[/b], a process of giving students credit for what they already know. Compacting also occurs when advanced students are allowed to work [b]more quickly[/b] through grade-level material.

For an approach like this to be successful, students [b]must recognize that they are not doing more work than others, just different work[/b]. Students must also understand that their recorded grade will not be lower than it would have been had they completed the regular class work instead of the more challenging work they tackled. Because teachers are required to assess only the grade-level standards—this is what the recorded grade reflects—[b]they can give alternative credit to students who successfully complete extension activities.
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This is nowhere close to what MCPS CO put in their slides. For the second paragraph, CKLA model 2 is exactly implementing the opposite: enrichment students only get more workloads with zero instruction and zero reward. They often feel been punished for being good at reading/writing. [/quote]

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