Edmonds School District Highly Capable Program Assessment and Selection Process November 14, 2017 Mark Madison, Director of K-12 Highly Capable Programs Edmonds School District
Agenda The Highly Capable Student The Highly Capable Program Continuum The Assessment and Selection Process Important Dates and Deadlines Frequently Asked Questions Questions from the floor
The Highly Capable Student
Highly Capable or Gifted Student Definition – Students Who Are Highly Capable o Students who have a preponderance of evidence from multiple criteria that show they are among the most highly capable. There is evidence of clear need for highly capable services when compared with others of their age, experiences, or environments. o Perform or show potential for performing at significantly advanced academic levels when compared with others of their age, experiences, or environments. Outstanding abilities are seen within students’ general intellectual o aptitudes, specific academic abilities, and/or creative productivities within a specific domain. Edmonds School District Board Policy 7330-R states that efforts will be made to identify highly capable students from under-represented populations.
Additional Attributes Demonstrate capacity to learn with unusual depth of understanding, o to retain what has been learned, and to transfer learning to new situations. Demonstrate capacity and willingness to deal with increasing levels o of abstraction and complexity earlier than their chronological peers. Demonstrate creative ability to make unusual connections among o ideas and concepts. Demonstrate ability to learn quickly in their area(s) of intellectual o strength. Demonstrate capacity for intense concentration and/or focus. o WAC 392-170-035; WAC 392-170-036
The Highly Capable Program Continuum
Highly Capable Program Attributes o Different pace, complexity, and instruction with emphasis on higher level thinking and problem solving skills. o Curriculum is accelerated and taken deeper. o Not a private school/not a self-paced program. Class size numbers are the same as regular education. o All types of students are in gifted classes, including those with special learning needs.
Challenge Program at T errace Park Grades 1-6 Terrace Park becomes new home school. Students in class with other gifted peers who understand them. Transportation provided from neighborhood school to Terrace Park and back to neighborhood school. ◦ Note: Students will not be able to ride the school bus between their home and their neighborhood school and arrive in time to catch the bus to T errace Park Challenge. School hours 9:00am – 3:30pm Parent volunteers greatly appreciated.
Highly Capable MS Program Grades 7-8 Brier Terrace Middle becomes new home school. Students are with gifted peers in: o Science o English/Social Studies block Students are placed in appropriate level math classes. Students have access to various elective classes. Transportation is provided from student’s neighborhood middle school to Brier Terrace Middle and back to the neighborhood middle school. Note: Students will not be able to ride the school bus between their home and their neighborhood middle school and arrive in time to catch the bus to Brier T errace Middle School.
High School Options Grades 9-12 Students select one of three accelerated options entering 9 th grade: 1. Accelerated options at the student’s home high school: Honors coursework Advanced Placement College in High School Running Start 2. STEM Magnet High School Program at Mountlake Terrace HS 3. International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Program at EWHS Important: No Transportation is provided if a student chooses an option other than their neighborhood high school.
The Assessment and Selection Process
The Cognitive Abilities T est, Form 7 (CogAT) o Commonly used and accepted assessment for use in Highly Capable Student identification o Measures students’ learned reasoning abilities in the three areas most linked to academic success in school: o Verbal Reasoning o Quantitative Reasoning o Nonverbal Reasoning Cognitive Abilities Test is published by Riverside Publishing for grades K-12, by David F. Lohman and Elizabeth P. Hagen. For more information, visit www.riversidepublishing.com
Characteristics of the Cognitive Abilities T est For students For students For students currently in currently in currently in grades K -1 : grade 2 : grades 3-7 : o The subtests are o All parts are timed. o All parts are timed. not timed. o Students bubble o Students answer o Students bubble answers in the questions on a answers in the same booklet as separate answer same booklet as the questions sheet. the questions. o Students read all o Students read all o All parts of the parts of the test parts of the test test are read to themselves. themselves. the students.
Additional Information Used in Selection Process 1 st 2 nd 3 rd 4 th 5 th 6 th 7 th Academic Assessments K Gr 2 Fall Reading X Gr 2 Math X Gr 2 Spring Reading X Prior Year SBA ELA X X X X Prior Year SBA Math X X X X Gr 5 MSP Science X X 1 st 2 nd 3 rd 4 th 5 th 6 th 7 th Other Information K DIBELS X X Fall Sight Words X K Spring Comprehension X Fall Independent Reading Levels X Gr 1 Spring Comprehension X Student Report Cards X X X X X X X X Parent Supplied Information X X X X X X X X Teacher Supplied Information X X X X X X X X
The Multi-Disciplinary Selection Committee (MSC) Includes a classroom teacher, a gifted program teacher, a psychologist and or counselor, and a gifted administrator from the district. Considers all information, including the application and other requested information in determining most highly capable students. Emphasis is on preponderance of evidence from CogAT and other available data that the student is among the most highly capable and needs highly capable services.
ESD General Qualification Criteria CogAT* CogAT* Overall Overall MSC Determination Composite Composite SAS National %tile 129 and above 97 th and above Qualifies As Most Highly Capable May be qualified as Most Highly 126 to 128 95 th – 96 th Capable with support of additional measures and information 125 and Does Not Qualify as Most Highly 94 th and below below Capable Note: The MSC recognizes limited English proficiency as a mitigating factor in student identification * Cognitive Abilities Test Form 7
Important Dates and Deadlines
Referral for Assessment How does the Referral Process work? Students must live in the Edmonds District service area to be tested. • See age requirements for kindergarten and first graders. • A parent, teacher, anyone may refer a student. • Referral must be complete and MUST be signed by parent. • Attach most recent report card (exception current Kindergartener) • Referral forms are available in your school’s main office or on the • districts Highly Capable Programs website. Referral MUST be received by November 30 th deadline at: Edmonds District, Highly Capable Office 20420-68 th Ave. W., Lynnwood, WA 98036 (next to Edmonds Community College) Can email referral packet to CassB@edmonds.wednet.edu or fax to 425-431-7089
T esting for 2018-2019 Placement: Grades K-4 Testing Referral Deadline – November 30, 2017 K-4 T esting – Saturday, January 6, 2018 o Terrace Park School – Testing Starts Promptly At: Current Grades K-1 8:30-11:45a.m. Current Grades 2-4 1:30-4:30 p.m. o Allow ample time for parking on street or in last two rows of Pavilion parking lot. o Testing will take approximately 3 hours. Doors will remain locked until all classrooms have finished testing. Make Up T esting due to illness on test day – must leave message for the Highly Capable department by phone or email on the day of testing to arrange a make-up testing appointment. Decision letters mailed out between January 30 – February 1.
T esting for 2018-2019 Placement: Grades 5-7 Testing Referral Deadline – November 30, 2017 Current Grades 5-7 – December 9, 2017 o Edmonds School District Administrative Center – Starts Promptly At: 8:30-11:00 a.m. o Allow time for parking and check in o Doors will remain locked until all classrooms have finished testing. Make Up T esting due to illness on test day – must leave message for the Highly Capable department by phone or email on the day of testing to arrange a make-up testing appointment . Decision letters mailed out between January 30 – February 1
Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently Asked Questions Should My Student be T ested for the Highly Capable Programs? o If you aren’t sure, ask your student’s current teacher for their opinion. o Have any of your child’s previous teachers talked to you about Challenge/Gifted testing? o Testing requires 3 hours of focused concentration with minimal breaks for students. Please consider your student’s strengths and maturity level especially for K-1 st graders. o If your student is happy, doing well, and thriving in school, they may just be in the right place to be successful.
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