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Kent School District’s Highly Capable Program
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2014-15 Highly Capable Program Services
Growing talent and minds from Kindergarten to college
and career
Definition of Highly Capable Students
• Students who perform or show potential for performing at significantly advanced academic levels compared with others of their age, experiences, or environments
• Outstanding abilities are seen within students' general intellectual aptitudes, specific academic abilities, and/or creative productivities within a specific domain
(WACS)
Definition of Learning Characteristics
1. Capacity to learn with unusual depth of understanding, to retain what has been learned, and to transfer learning to new situations.
2. Capacity and willingness to deal with increasing levels of abstraction and complexity earlier than their chronological peers.
3. Creative ability to make unusual connections among ideas and concepts.
4. Ability to learn quickly in their area(s) of intellectual strength.
5. Capacity for intense concentration and/or focus.
What is ACE?
The Accelerated and Clustered Enrichment Program is designed to:
• Provide rigorous, differentiated instruction • Support social-emotional development • Build on strengths
How are students serviced in ACE?
• Content• Process • Product • Learning environment • Assessment
Literacy Program
Compact and accelerate the grade level standards through adding depth, complexity, and creativity.
Resources:• Common Core English Language Arts Standards• Short stories, poetry, and nonfiction reading
comprehension through Jacob’s Ladder• Junior Great Books • Wordly Wise• Vocabulary for the Classical Roots • Thinking Skills within the Common Core
Mathematics Program
• Common Core Mathematics standards• Compacting and accelerating the grade level
standards through adding depth and complexity.
Outside Opportunities
University of Washington
Robinson Center for
Young Scholars
Summer Challenge • Fast-paced, challenging courses in
3-5 week blocks• Students explore issues and solve
problems through interactive, hands-on activities
Enrichment Programs• Saturday courses throughout the
school year• Students are provided a dynamic,
challenging, and inspirational learning experience in math or writing
UW Robinson Center
Outside OpportunitiesJohn Hopkins Talent Search
• The Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (CTY), a world leader in gifted education, seeks high performing students for enrollment in special programs throughout the country.
• High performing students take a test designed for older students which can reveal more about the student’s talents and abilities
• Tests are held in late fall/early winter and dates and fees can be found on website
John Hopkin’s Center for Talented Youth
National Association for Gifted Children
Hoagies Gifted
Washington Association of Educators of Talented and Gifted
William and Mary Center for Gifted Education
Kent School District Hicap website
Resources
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