Anonymous wrote:Everyone at our school loved this training. People couldn't stop raving about how inspiration it was.

Bull$&@!

Use this link
More interesting, the first contract is only $1.8 Million for district-wide. Yes, MCPS got a discount now of $200k when only 37 MCPS schools/programs will be using it.

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=C2ZLX95869AD

More interesting, the first contract is only $1.8 Million for district-wide. Yes, MCPS got a discount now of $200k when only 37 MCPS schools/programs will be using it.

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.ns...open&id=C2ZLX95869AD

"In addition, regarding the MCPS purchase of Leader in Me, funds have been budgeted for MCPS offices and schools to purchase Leader in Me for a total amount not to exceed $1,820,763.14 for Fiscal Year 2022. "

"To facilitate the purchase of a districtwide SEL Curriculum, MCPS released RFP No. 4926.1, Social-Emotional Learning Curricular and Instructional Materials, Elementary, Middle, and High Members of the Board of Education 3 May 25, 2021 schools on March 25, 2021, to solicit high-quality SEL curriculum. MCPS staff organized and conducted a thorough product selection process that included representatives from schools, the three employee associations, community organizations, students, and central services. "

Anonymous wrote:No Kidding!

$1.6 Million for 37 schools MCPS schools/programs have chosen to implement or continue implementation of the Leader in Me Curriculum in the 2023–2024 school year

The rest of the MCPS schools/program would use the MCPS in-house SEL lessons (certainly would cost $$$$ to be developed)

Anonymous wrote:Wow, 173 out of 210 schools have opted out of Leader in Me for the 2023-34 school year. I wonder which 37 chose to continue with it.

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/CSEJSA4E8C5A/$file/Cont%20Approv%20RFP%204926.1%20SEL%20Curr%20Instruct%20Materials.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:What are "the district-developed social emotional learning lessons"?

(The ones that most of the schools will be doing instead of Leader In Me, I mean.)

Let me guess... eventually, MCPS will contract out to the company of Leader In Me to help developing the district-developed social emotional learning lessons.

Look, these are SEL lessons, not SEL curriculum...

Anonymous wrote:What are "the district-developed social emotional learning lessons"?

(The ones that most of the schools will be doing instead of Leader In Me, I mean.)

What are "the district-developed social emotional learning lessons"?

Is there a list of the 37 schools that are keeping it? I'm truly curious which principals would choose to keep it given the nearly univeral dislike of the program.

Everyone at our school loved this training. People couldn't stop raving about how inspiration it was.

I gotta program it's called your teacher will break his foot off in you ass if you be disrespecting. Gimme a million dollars.

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Anonymous wrote:My vague recollection is MCPS had three vendors put in bids. LiM was the only one that said it could be used from ES though HS. The reality is the MS and HS stuff was pretty much the same as the ES stuff, so it completely fell flat with kids. LiM is pure corporate self-help nonsense from the 90's. It only serves to help LiM make money, not help our students.

But why did our EDUCATORS not have the ability to look at this with a critical eye and recognize this wasn't going to work for our population or age group? The should have been apparent before purchasing.

Mcps keeps falling into a trap in wanting a curriculum that works for thousands of kids but dew curriculums are one size fits all. That's why we didn't get rid of benchmark because the reading office and esol office couldn't come to an agreement

Anonymous wrote:And the county is raising taxes to pay for all these hairbrained wasteful programs.

Not for those programs. But for more paras, counselors, school-assigned substitutes, and security. Because our schools need as much support as possible with so many kids in crisis. We’re dealing with a pending 10.0 mental health earthquake. Everything u to this point has been foreshocks. Kids are not getting better as a whole.

Anonymous wrote:My vague recollection is MCPS had three vendors put in bids. LiM was the only one that said it could be used from ES though HS. The reality is the MS and HS stuff was pretty much the same as the ES stuff, so it completely fell flat with kids. LiM is pure corporate self-help nonsense from the 90's. It only serves to help LiM make money, not help our students.

But why did our EDUCATORS not have the ability to look at this with a critical eye and recognize this wasn't going to work for our population or age group? The should have been apparent before purchasing.

My HS (where I teach) dropped LIM.
Most everyone at my school hates it.
Part of the issue is that the training was terrible which makes one have little confidence in the program. What a waste of money!

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Anonymous wrote:What head of school counseling? School counselors had nothing to do with it. The head of psychology chose it.

Is there going to be a consequence for the MCPS head of psychology's massive blunder with LiM? This is an incredible amount of resources to go to waste. Someone needs to be held accountable.

Nope. Never in MCPS. Millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on wasted programs and nobody is ever held accountable. It’s a corrupt system and our kids suffer because of that.

Knowing MCPS, the head of psychology will probably get a promotion based on this debacle

Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t have to go completely to waste, as it can be re-purposed towards leadership training for 6-12 grade students. Likely alongside other things. Then schools can move on to focus on true SEL that would be more beneficial.

It’s is very weak compared to existing leadership training taught in Kennedy’s LTI and offered in MCPS organizations like SGA, MSP, GSA, JSU, Green Team, etc.