In pool notifications

Top 10% at each school is what it used to be 2 years ago, at least. Not sure if they have changed it. Our school's 2nd grade is tiny this year, which means it's a small number of kids and mine wasn't one of them.

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12/14/2023 15:19

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They have sent them out

I got something called a "Universal Screener Referral". Is that what "in-pool" means?

Yes. It means your kid did well enough on some combination (average people say) of NNAT and CoGAT to be in the top 10% or so of your individual school, so your kid automatically gets a packet prepared whether you parent refer or not.

To be clear, you should parent refer no matter what because those added paragraphs are useful to help explain why your kid should be in AAP, even if the teacher gives a poor HOPE rating or something.

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12/14/2023 15:22

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Anonymous wrote:Will they come by mail or email? Where are they sent from?

I got an email today

Greetings! This email is to notify you that your child is being referred to be screened for full-time Advanced Academic Programs (AAP) based on data from district universal screening.

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12/14/2023 15:25

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Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They have sent them out

I got something called a "Universal Screener Referral". Is that what "in-pool" means?

Yes. It means your kid did well enough on some combination (average people say) of NNAT and CoGAT to be in the top 10% or so of your individual school, so your kid automatically gets a packet prepared whether you parent refer or not.

To be clear, you should parent refer no matter what because those added paragraphs are useful to help explain why your kid should be in AAP, even if the teacher gives a poor HOPE rating or something.

So what happens if your kid doesn't have NNAT on file? We weren't in FCPS last year.

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12/14/2023 15:30

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Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They have sent them out

I got something called a "Universal Screener Referral". Is that what "in-pool" means?

Yes. It means your kid did well enough on some combination (average people say) of NNAT and CoGAT to be in the top 10% or so of your individual school, so your kid automatically gets a packet prepared whether you parent refer or not.

To be clear, you should parent refer no matter what because those added paragraphs are useful to help explain why your kid should be in AAP, even if the teacher gives a poor HOPE rating or something.

So what happens if your kid doesn't have NNAT on file? We weren't in FCPS last year.

You'd have to ask the AAP office. This is all that they publicly state on the website:

In the 2021-22 SY, the NNAT and CogAt test scores were combined to create a ranking of students at each local school second grade class group. From that ranked list, the top 10% of scores were selected for the local second grade pool, now known as the universal screener referral.

(https://www.fcps.edu/academics/academic-overview/advanced-academic-programs-aap/advanced-academic-programs-aap-level-iv)

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12/14/2023 16:00

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Did anyone get an email past 3 pm? Wondering if that means we aren't getting one. Still no scores here either.

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12/14/2023 16:07

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone get an email past 3 pm? Wondering if that means we aren't getting one. Still no scores here either.

We haven't gotten anything. Our school finished it in the last week of the testing window however, so I'm not sure if scores simply aren't back yet for the school since it's only been about a month.

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12/14/2023 16:08

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if you haven't gotten an automatic referral email, you aren't getting one. they all go out at the same time from central office

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12/14/2023 16:10

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PPs response is what I suspect as well.