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Teachers present plan to end 4th–5th grade ELA tracking; board asked for family communications and monitoring
Summary
Elementary teachers and principals presented a plan to the board to cease ELA leveling in fourth- and fifth-grade, citing research and classroom experience with heterogeneous groupings; administrators said they will notify families, provide professional development, and monitor impacts with MAP and other assessments.
District teachers and elementary principals on June 5 presented a multi-stakeholder plan to end ability-level grouping ("leveling") in fourth- and fifth-grade English language arts and to replace it with heterogeneous, mixed-ability classes supported by targeted interventions and the district’s WIN-time structure.
Why it matters: Presenters told the board that early leveling can create fixed academic identities for students and that heterogeneous grouping, paired with intentional differentiation and scaffolds, promotes academic self-efficacy and equity. The proposal would expand practices already in some earlier grades and build on the Wit & Wisdom ELA curriculum and the district’s MTSS/WIN intervention framework.
Who presented and what they said Teachers from multiple elementary schools described classroom experience with…
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