Haycock AAP Appeal Seeking Advice!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Daughter is in Haycock 2nd grade and did not get in. It's definitely a surprise to me, cause she was in pool and the school AART teacher told us she is 99% in!

NNAT: 149
CogAct (V:128; Q: 137; N: 131) Composite: 138;
iReady: Math 91%; Reading 99%;
GBRS: 4CQs

Parent referral form focused on her inviting personality (friendly, collaborative and compassionate) and reading habit (avid reader with exceptional memory).

Can you help me de-puzzle what might cause her being rejected?
Any advice on appealing strategy is appreciated!
Does getting a WISC score increase our chance of success?

I heard 99% in both Math and Reading is "normal" in aap pool. Also, it depends on the profiles of other Haycock 2nd graders, as your daughter is basically "competing" with other students in 2nd grade.

[Anonymous]

OP here, thank you everyone for the response. We decided to appeal.

I have a lot of examples on why she needs AAP. She absolutely learns better when challenged. She spent Saturday learning multiplication/division on iPad because kids on her table talked about it. She learnt to solve rubric cube on YouTube because her best friend knows how to. She constantly asks the kids in her class who know more than her if they can teach her -- not always successful though. But she does turn to us for unsatisfied learning needs after school, and we point her to the resources she needs to learn about it herself. I do regret not always be able to devote enough time teaching and doing projects with her.

I am having difficulties finding good work samples. I heard math worksheets are not good samples. And the school work samples aren't good either -- they are basically daily practice sheets. I have a bunch of videos of her explaining how to solve rubric cubes, puzzles, Smart Games, etc. But they do not seem presentable to me.

Does anyone have examples of a good work sample?

[Anonymous]

About the comment regarding test prep, we didn't do Cogact test prep at home. I believe the school had the kids prep for a couple of days at school. I disagree with over-prepping for tests. But I appreciate the school exposed the kids to the types of questions. I looked at sample Cogact questions online. It is just not straight forward to me what the ask is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here, thank you everyone for the response. We decided to appeal.

I have a lot of examples on why she needs AAP. She absolutely learns better when challenged. She spent Saturday learning multiplication/division on iPad because kids on her table talked about it. She learnt to solve rubric cube on YouTube because her best friend knows how to. She constantly asks the kids in her class who know more than her if they can teach her -- not always successful though. But she does turn to us for unsatisfied learning needs after school, and we point her to the resources she needs to learn about it herself. I do regret not always be able to devote enough time teaching and doing projects with her.

I am having difficulties finding good work samples. I heard math worksheets are not good samples. And the school work samples aren't good either -- they are basically daily practice sheets. I have a bunch of videos of her explaining how to solve rubric cubes, puzzles, Smart Games, etc. But they do not seem presentable to me.

Does anyone have examples of a good work sample?

You can screenshot the videos of her explanations and type out her text explanations beside the screenshots. Our AART crammed 5 work samples on each of the pages by shrinking them, and included a little text explanation of what my kid's work was showing. I duplicated that approach with the work samples in my parental referral.

You can also have your kid do some CML problems (you can google Continental Math League) and not just solve the problem, write out her thinking on the solution (I videoed the explanation then transcribed it)

[Anonymous]

the math samples our AART used were logic problems where the kids wrote how they solved the problem out. The AART write a brief blurb that the sample showed advanced reasoning skills or something like that on it. We provided our own work samples which were pictures of projects as he was building them and the completed project and wrote brief blurbs about what he had experimented with.

[Anonymous]

Appreciated your repsonse!