Gifted Program Board Presentation by: Lora McHugh, Supervisor Sharon Kautz, Executive Director The Bellevue School District Mission: 1 To provide all students with an exemplary college preparatory education so they can succeed in college, career and life. Our mission is to provide all students with an exemplary college preparatory education so they can succeed in college, career, and life.
Agenda • Program Updates • General Information • Racial equity • Inclusion • Student performance data • Next Steps 2 • Questions / Comments Our mission is to provide all students with an exemplary college preparatory education so they can succeed in college, career, and life. Our mission is to provide all students with an exemplary college preparatory education so they can succeed in college, career, and life.
Program Updates • Gifted Programs will become the Advanced Learning Department. • WACs now require districts to reduce barriers to inclusion for lower socio‐economic students. • Increased communication and testing during the instructional day at Ardmore, Lake Hills, Phantom Lake, Sherwood Forest, Stevenson, and Woodridge. • Piloted universal testing for 2 nd grade students at Ardmore, Clyde Hill, and Woodridge in January. • Working with other departments and schools to identify students receiving ELL, IEP, 504, services and Black and Latino students. • Currently considering changes to identification instruments that are more racially/culturally unbiased and can be used to 3 universally test students district wide at two or more elementary grade levels. Our mission is to provide all students with an exemplary college preparatory education so they can succeed in college, career, and life. Our mission is to provide all students with an exemplary college preparatory education so they can succeed in college, career, and life.
Program Updates Continued… • 303 students in grades 2‐12 are now receiving services in their home school. • K‐1 students have been identified and are being served in a single domain in their neighborhood school, and domain‐specific services will roll up one grade level each year. • GHSP curriculum will be formally codified by August, 2018. 4 Our mission is to provide all students with an exemplary college preparatory education so they can succeed in college, career, and life. Our mission is to provide all students with an exemplary college preparatory education so they can succeed in college, career, and life.
Guiding Vision and Purpose • Provide an academically appropriate learning environment that is challenging and meaningful, while recognizing that the innate intellectual potential of highly capable children must be nurtured in order for them to maximize their potential. • The Gifted Program seeks to: • Identify and serve students from all races, all cultural groups, and all economic strata within the Bellevue School District. • Challenge students to explore their potential and become knowledgeable, principled, open‐minded, caring, balanced and reflective thinkers, who inquire, communicate, and take risks (International Baccalaureate Learner Profile). • Provide instructional materials and pedagogy that encourages children to reach their full potential. • Prepare children to become active, contributing members of an interdependent, global community. • Assist students in developing life‐long learning skills. 5 • Extend gifted pedagogy to all classrooms across the district. • Provide support and education for families. Our mission is to provide all students with an exemplary college preparatory education so they can succeed in college, career, and life.
General Information K‐1 Services 1 st Grade School Kindergarten Literacy Math Lit/Math Literacy Math Lit/Math Ardmore 3 3 4 Bennett 1 Cherry Crest 6 Clyde Hill 1 8 Eastgate 1 Enatai 1 4 Jing Mei 1 1 1 Lake Hills 1 1 Medina 7 Newport Heights 1 1 Phantom Lake Puesta del Sol Sherwood Forest 2 Somerset 1 1 11 Spiritridge 1 6 Stevenson 1 Woodridge Total 3 4 1 3 5 47 Our mission is to provide all students with an exemplary college preparatory education so they can succeed in college, career, and life.
General Information Elementary Services 2 nd grade 3 rd grade 4 th grade 5 th grade School Total CHERRY CREST 55 57 74 71 257 MEDINA 22 53 47 57 179 SOMERSET 24 47 44 72 187 SPIRITRIDGE 45 56 83 68 252 HOME/CHOICE 4 9 8 9 30 SCHOOL TOTAL 150 222 256 277 905 STUDENTS 7 Our mission is to provide all students with an exemplary college preparatory education so they can succeed in college, career, and life.
Elementary ‐ Home School Service Option 2 nd 3 rd 4 th School/Grade 5th Clyde Hill 1 Eastgate 1 1 Lake Hills 1 Jing Mei 2 4 4 2 Medina 1 Newport 1 Heights Puesta del Sol 2 1 3 Sherwood 1 1 Woodridge 2 2 8 Total = 30 Our mission is to provide all students with an exemplary college preparatory education so they can succeed in college, career, and life. Our mission is to provide all students with an exemplary college preparatory education so they can succeed in college, career, and life.
General Information Middle School Services 6 th grade School 7 th 8 th Total grade grade ODLE 206 194 195 595 TYEE 80 89 80 249 Home/Choice 21 21 9 51 TOTAL STUDENTS 307 304 284 895 9 Our mission is to provide all students with an exemplary college preparatory education so they can succeed in college, career, and life.
Middle School ‐ Home School Service Option School/Grade 6 th 7 th 8 th Big Picture 1 1 1 Chinook 4 5 4 International 13 13 3 Tillicum 3 2 1 Total = 51 10 Our mission is to provide all students with an exemplary college preparatory education so they can succeed in college, career, and life. Our mission is to provide all students with an exemplary college preparatory education so they can succeed in college, career, and life.
General Information High School Services 9 th grade 12 th grade School 10 th 11 th Total grade grade INTERLAKE 158 121 74 81 434 HOME SCHOOL 75 92 13 7 187 TOTAL STUDENTS 233 213 87 88 621 11 Our mission is to provide all students with an exemplary college preparatory education so they can succeed in college, career, and life.
High School ‐ Home School Service Option School/Grade 9 th 10 th 11 th 12 th Bellevue 18 36 3 2 Interlake 1 1 International 3 4 Newport 43 48 8 2 Sammamish 10 4 1 3 Total = 187 12 Our mission is to provide all students with an exemplary college preparatory education so they can succeed in college, career, and life. Our mission is to provide all students with an exemplary college preparatory education so they can succeed in college, career, and life.
General Information Enrollment by Race/Gender Advanced Learning Advanced Learning Enrollment by Race Enrollment by Gender Asian 76% Female 47.7% Black 0.5% Male 52.3% Hispanic/Latino 1% 6.2% Multi‐ethnic White 16.2% 13 Our mission is to provide all students with an exemplary college preparatory education so they can succeed in college, career, and life.
Racial Equity Focus Increased communication to teachers and families at Ardmore, Lake Hills, Phantom Lake, Sherwood Forest, Stevenson, and Woodridge. • Requested referrals from teachers • Provided information and applications for teachers to provide to parents during conferences • Provided gifted testing during the school day Planning to pilot the Naglieri Nonverbal Abilities Test and possibly the Torrence Test of Creativity this spring with students at Stevenson Elementary. Planning to utilize the Naglieri Nonverbal Abilities Test to universally screen at least two elementary grade levels in 2018‐19. Changed the K‐1 identification process to include collection of performance data only, without standardized testing, to ensure all students have an 14 equitable opportunity to be identified. Our mission is to provide all students with an exemplary college preparatory education so they can succeed in college, career, and life. Our mission is to provide all students with an exemplary college preparatory education so they can succeed in college, career, and life.
Inclusion Focus Providing opportunities for students to receive gifted services in their home school to increase participation of students who have typically been underserved. Implementing domain specific services in Reading and Math through the home school service option, in order to serve more students. Working with small groups of students not typically referred for advanced learning due to race, language, or disability, to determine a need for services. Removing the gifted label from our students/schools and instead providing services to students in need no matter where they attend. Provided professional development, coaching, and encouragement for ensuring high level instruction for all students in need of extensions and 15 acceleration in their home school environment. Our mission is to provide all students with an exemplary college preparatory education so they can succeed in college, career, and life. Our mission is to provide all students with an exemplary college preparatory education so they can succeed in college, career, and life.
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