What We Do

From Vision through Community Engagement to Systemic Change

We offer a number of educational events, designed to engage community members, elements of MCPS, and/or the political establishment.

Our current focus is on an effort - in collaboration with the Equity in Education Coalition of Montgomery County (EEC) -- to end the practice of sending out letters to parents of students about to enter grade 3 stating that their children are "Gifted and Talented" (or not).  The letter is a direct result of the Grade 2 Global Screening (G2GS) process that MCPS continues to employ, despite its negative effects.  The campaign (to end the practice of including the "Label" in this letter) is a focussed extension of our longstanding "No Labels, No Limits" campaign.  We are currently presenting explanatory materials about the negative aspects of the labelling letter to community groups, churches, etc.  As the Board of Education (BoE) completes its consideration of proposed revisions to Policy IOA (Gifted and Talented Education), our "End the Labelling" campaign will encourage multiple organizations and community members to contact the BoE and express their concerns.

In the Fall we will be organizing a series of small group discussions of recent publications on efforts to end curricular stratification ("tracking") in public education systems.