Originally Posted by ultramarina
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Each grade has four different leveled groups in each subject (so, 4 math, 4 spelling, 4 reading) with classes from below grade level to above grade level. Students are assigned to each group based on a combination of assessments and students are moved in and out of groups as needed throughout the year so that their needs are met as best as possible. Kids move throughout the grade level pod during the day to these leveled groups, in addition to the instruction happening throughout the rest of the day a student's main classroom.


*swoon*

No further comment, really, just--why can't more schools do this???

Scheduling...our elementary schools are huge 700-1000 kids depending on the school. All of these kids need a period in Special Areas (art, music, PE) and all these kids need a lunch (and in my child's school 97% are free and reduced and have to get through the lunch line). In order to do that there really is no way to have everyone having reading at the same time and math at the same time because there needs to be grades in specials and lunch starts at 10am. Oh and school starts at 8:15 and at 8:45 the front office is full of kids getting late passes...if they really wanted the kids there at 8:15 they would need to lie and tell them that school started at 7:45. The kids/parents here think that 8:15 is just a suggested time to show up.

...reading is pleasure, not just something teachers make you do in school.~B. Cleary