Love Elementary will be radically different if it is moved to the NES model.

• Our dual language program will be removed or will become unrecognizable. The NES’s curriculum does not follow the daily 50-50 model that Love uses; students will spend significantly less time in core classes with Spanish instruction.
• Our librarian, Ms. Hardin, will be fired or reassigned—there are no librarians in the NES. The library will be transformed into a Team Center.
• Students will have less time in ancillary classes (Art, Music, Science Lab, PE), and we will lose at least 1 of these ancillary classes (Science Lab).
• The school day will be longer for 3rd through 5th grade students (8am-4pm). The Pre-K through 1st grade schedule is from 8am-3pm, and 2nd grade is from 8am-3:30pm. This means that families who have students in multiple grades will have multiple pickup times.
• Teachers will be required to use the NES curriculum and materials from the district rather than creating their own. If a teacher feels that their class needs to revisit material on a particular subject, the teacher cannot return to it and must move on to the next lesson. Teachers cannot adapt and adjust to their students’ needs and interests.
• Current Special Education programs (SPED) will be dismantled. The rigid framework of the NES removed the built-in accommodations that help these students thrive in their classrooms. Under the NES, students who currently utilize SPED services must either do without, or be removed to isolated SPED-only classrooms undoing decades of advancements.
• Students will not read full-length books. The NES curriculum, including high school, only uses excerpts of texts.
• NES classes are 90 minutes for 3rd-5th grade, but students only get 45 minutes with their teachers if they do well on their daily quiz (DOL). The rest of the class period is spent in the Team Center with a Learning Coach.
• Students will have to take daily quizzes in every subject, called Demonstrations of Learning (DOLs). These quizzes determine which students head to the Teams Center for independent work rather than staying with their teachers.
• Learning Coaches at many NES campuses are not certified teachers and are not required to be experts in the subjects students are learning.
• Students who are disruptive are isolated from their class taken to a Zoom Room or the Team Center.
• Mr. Tellez will have NO CONTROL over the staffing of the school. The NES has a centralized staffing model that is given to the principal. He cannot adjust it.
• Field trips will be shortened or eliminated.
• Our teachers will need to complete an assessment of their skills in order to continue teaching at our campus. Part of that assessment will be the Middle of the Year (MOY) NWEA test which most of our students took when there was NO HEAT. The decision to stay open with no heat was a district decision (not Mr. Tellez’s) because the district’s only priority was the MOY scores. Do you think your student did their best on a test when it was 44 degrees in the room?