A School for the Highly Gifted
June 2014
Bill Gates
IQ 160
Stephen Hawking
IQ 165
Conan O’Brien
Harvard
Madonna
IQ 140
The highly
intelligent can be
found in every
race, gender and
socio economic
background.
Albert Einstein
IQ 160
Ellen Ochoa
Stanford
James Woods
IQ 184
Marie Curie
IQ 185
Alicia Keys
IQ 140
Johnny Cash
IQ 160
• “Asynchronous Development”
• Feelings of Isolation
• Need for accelerated pace and
complex content
Professor Julian
Stanley at Johns
Hopkins University
1993
Building Mental Muscle
• Intelligence is like a muscle
• Unused muscles atrophy
• Growth results from hard work
at the right level of difficulty
Every child should flex their mental muscles every day!
135+ represents the top two percent
of the population
These individuals are as different from their typical age peers as students who score 65 on an IQ test.
• Intense intellectual curiosity
• Fascination with words and
ideas
• Perfectionism
• Need for precision
• Argumentativeness
• Metaphoric Thinking
• Learn in great intuitive leaps
• Ability to perceive many sides of an
issue
• Ability to visualize models and systems
• Intense need for mental stimulation
• Difficulty conforming to the thinking of
others
• Early moral and existential concern
• Tendency toward
introversion
Silverman, “Highly Gifted Children”
To recognize, nurture, and develop highly gifted young people
to become life-long scholars and leaders by providing an
appropriately challenging and supportive academic
environment which focuses on the joy of learning and the
responsibility for bringing positive change to the world
Passionate
about teaching
GT kids
Certified 1st-8th
GT and ESL
A Life-Long
Learner
Graduate
coursework in
GT Education
Experienced in
teaching GT
• Individual Learning Plans (ILP)
• Flexible grouping patterns (i.e. Mixed Age)
• Pace, depth, and complexity in learning
• Above-grade level Curriculum when appropriate
• 15 to 1 student to teacher ratio
• One to one technology
Assessments
• Annual nationally-normed criterion referenced tests
• MAP Online Diagnostic (Measure of Academic Progress)
• Regular classroom pre-assessment to determine learning needs for the ILP
• Benchmark to ensure grade-level
STAAR success
• Affective Support
– Exploring what it means to be “gifted”
– Finding a place to “fit in”
– High interest activities and clubs such
as Destination Imagination, Robotics,
and Chess
– Focus on Leadership Skills
• Parent Engagement
– Visiting Lecture series for parents of
the gifted
– Volunteer opportunities
– Required parent attendance to 3
events or activities
– Parent Advisory Group
YEAR ONE
YEAR TWO
YEAR THREE
Grades Served
1st – 3rd
1st - 4th
1st - 5th
Expected
Enrollment
45
60
75
Teacher to
Student Ratio
1: 15
1:15
1:15
Number of
Teaching Staff
3
4
5
Teaching
Specialty
ELA/SS Teacher 1-8
ELA/SS Teacher 1-8
Math/Science Teacher 1-8
ELA/SS Teacher 1-8
ELA/SS Teacher 1-8
Math/Science Teacher 1-8
Math Teacher 4-12
ELA/SS Teacher 1-8
ELA/SS Teacher 1-8
Math/Science Teacher 1-8
Math Teacher 4-12
Science Teacher 4-12
Administrator
Principal
Administrative Assistant
Principal
Administrative Assistant
Principal
Administrative Assistant
Location
School Within a School at Dubiski Career High School
MONDAY & WEDNESDAY
8:20-8:50
Connections
8:55-9:55
STEM Group A / B
10:00-11:00
11:00-11:30
11:30-12:00
12:05-12:50
Connections
CONNECTIONS
STEM Group A / B
Humanities ELA Focus Group C / D
Humanities ELA Focus Group C / D
STEM Group C / D
STEM Group C / D
Humanities ELA Focus Group A / B
Humanities ELA Focus Group A / B
LUNCH Group A / B
LUNCH Group A / B
Creativity Strand Group C / D
Foreign Language (Chinese / Latin) Group C / D
LUNCH Group C / D
LUNCH Group C / D
Creativity Strand Group A / B
Foreign Language (Chinese / Latin) Group A / B
Independent Study (ILP) Group C / D
Independent Study (ILP) Group C / D
STEM
CREATIVITY
Science Lab Group STRAND
A/B
12:55-1:35
1:40-2:25
HUMANITIES
FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Humanities Group A / B
Independent Study (ILP) Group A / B
Independent Study (ILP) Group A / B
Science Lab Group C / D
Humanities Group C / D
Humanities Group A /B / PE Group C / D
Science Lab Group A /B / Music or Art Group C / D
INDEPENDENT
STUDY
Humanities Group C /D / PE Group A / B
2:30-3:15
TUESDAY & THURSDSAY
SCIENCE LABS
Science Lab Group C / D / Music or Art Group A / B
Mini-Workshops - Student Choice
Texas Performance Standards Projects TPSP
Math Pentathlon
FRIDAYS
Field Trips
Web Page Design
STEM
Journalism Club
College Visits
Advanced
Content
Depth &
Complexity
Higher
Level
Processes
Recommendations
Center for Gifted Education at the
College of William and Mary
• Reading / Writing
• Science
• Social Studies
Stanford’s Education Program
for Gifted Youth (Stanford EPGY)
• Mathematics
Process for Admission:
Application
Step I: Pre-Screening
• Identified GT
• Two Aptitude scores in the top 2-3% (V NV Q C)
All Final Placement testing will take
place in-district
Student must be GT
Identified
OLSAT
10/07/13
1st
128
142
A Score of 6 or Higher Required to Advance
1
135
1
1
1
3
5
9
Process for Admission: Placement
Testing
Step 2: Testing
• Cognitive/Aptitude Testing
conducted in-district by GPISD diagnosticians or licensed psychologists
individual administration
• Achievement Testing
conducted by in-district professional staff
small group setting (no more than 3)
English and Spanish testing will be available.
Entering first graders must read at a DRA Level 8 to advance to Step Two.
• Cognitive / Aptitude Score Requirement
• Two Aptitude scores of 135+
• Verbal / Nonverbal / Quantitative / Composite or Full Scale
• Achievement Score Requirement
• Two Achievement scores in the 8th to 9th Stanine
• Reading / Math
• DRA Level of 8 for entering first graders
Process for Admission: Interview
Step 3: Interview
• Scheduled AFTER testing requirements are met
• Student and Parent Interview
Process for Admission: Selection
Step 3: Final Placement Decisions
• Made by a District GT Placement Committee
• Based on a student’s complete Summary Profile Matrix
Two Subtest or Composite Scores
In the Top 2 to 3% on a Cognitive/Aptitude Test
25
22
20
20
22
16
First Grade
15
10
Second Grade
9
Third Grade
5
Fourth Grade
0
Fifth Grade
First Grade Second
Grade
Third
Grade
Fourth
Grade
Fifth
Grade
Austin
Daniels
Eisenhower
Travis
Bowie
Marshall
Whitt
Moseley
Florence
Hill
Williams
Seguin
Dickinson
Garner
De Zavala
Bush
Powell
Moore
Advanced Academic Performance Level
2013 STAAR for 4th/5th Highly Gifted
120%
100%
100% 100%
100% 100% 100%
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
4th Grade
STAAR Reading
5th Grade
STAAR Math
STAAR Writing
*Statistics are for current 4th and 5th Graders who meet the 135+ criteria
Identification of Students from All Populations
Pull Out Program
Highly Trained Teachers
Challenging Curriculum
Texas Performance Standards Projects
Out of School Options
Social and Emotional Support
Jack Andraka Age 15
Ruben
Jauergui
Harrison
Miller
TAMS Graduate
Former GPISD
Student
California Institute
of Technology
Grand Prairie High
School Graduate
2009
Massachusetts
Institute of
Technology
Dubiski Graduate
2014
Stanford
University
Juan
Cerda
Grand Prairie High
School Graduate 2011
Yale University –
studying in Scotland
this semester
Marissa
Swanson
South Grand Prairie High School Graduate
2012
University of Texas – 40 Acres Scholarship
Bernardo
Velez
Dubiski Graduate
2014
University of
Texas– National
Merit Finalist
Paul
Nguyen
As much as the world has benefited from the
contributions of gifted individuals, it is disturbing...to
realize that the population least likely to learn and
achieve its potential is the highly gifted.
Joseph Cardillo
• Grades Served: 1st-3rd Graders
• Location: Dubiski Career High School – second floor
• Hours: 8:00am-3:00pm
• After School Care: Marshall Beyond the Bell Program
• Admission Criteria:
• Two Aptitude scores of 135+
• Two Achievement scores in the 8th to 9th Stanines
• Screening: The Week of June 23-26, 2014
• Results and Placement Notification: By July 24, 2014
• Complete an
application and select
preferred testing times
• Return the application
to the GPISD Education
Center Teaching and
Learning Department
no later than June 19,
2014 at 4:30pm
Monday, June 23 at 8:30am
Wednesday, June 25 at 2:45pm
Debbie Midkiff
Cathy Shaver
Director of Elementary College Readiness
Director of Secondary College Readiness
[email protected]
[email protected]
Jeffrey Miller
Executive Director of Postsecondary Readiness
[email protected]
Call 972-237-4034