When do the schools send files to the central selection committee?

[Anonymous]

Anyone know? Not finding that date on the FCPS website.

[Anonymous]

Does it really matter? All I found was that the central committee meets in March. The packets will be sent sometime before the central committee meets.

[Anonymous]

Don't know.

However, I have my daughter's packet that I submitted last year and they included the 2nd quarter report card. So my guess is sometime in February.

[Anonymous]

They have to get referrals in far enough in advance so they know who to build packets for. Once the referrals are submitted, the AART has to get with the teachers to build the packets. They have to find work samples and there are meetings to discuss GBRSs. That takes time. I think the AART at our school works at at least one other school, someone told me that she is at three schools total.

The deadline for referrals and parents submitted material is a hard deadline. They will not accept things past that date, regardless of when they send things to the Central Committee.

[Anonymous]

Each school should be staffed with a full time AART, not sure why FCPS allows principals to do this. It is red flag that a principal does not care about high achieving kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Each school should be staffed with a full time AART, not sure why FCPS allows principals to do this. It is red flag that a principal does not care about high achieving kids.

Agree. It’s unfair to the students at those schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They have to get referrals in far enough in advance so they know who to build packets for. Once the referrals are submitted, the AART has to get with the teachers to build the packets. They have to find work samples and there are meetings to discuss GBRSs. That takes time. I think the AART at our school works at at least one other school, someone told me that she is at three schools total.

The deadline for referrals and parents submitted material is a hard deadline. They will not accept things past that date, regardless of when they send things to the Central Committee.

I wasN’t asking to see if there was flexibility. I was asking because we can request the packet after it has ben sent. I’d like to see DD’s GBRS because we have seen it mattering more and more in recent years so her high CogAT is not giving me the same confidence I had with older DD.

[Anonymous]

I wasn't aware that the AART decision was a Principal decision and not a County Staffing decision. We are at a smaller ES with out local level IV. I thought that the reason that we had a part time AART was because there were not enough kids receiving services to justify a full time AART. Just like some schools have part time Speech Therapists and other specializations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They have to get referrals in far enough in advance so they know who to build packets for. Once the referrals are submitted, the AART has to get with the teachers to build the packets. They have to find work samples and there are meetings to discuss GBRSs. That takes time. I think the AART at our school works at at least one other school, someone told me that she is at three schools total.

The deadline for referrals and parents submitted material is a hard deadline. They will not accept things past that date, regardless of when they send things to the Central Committee.

I wasN’t asking to see if there was flexibility. I was asking because we can request the packet after it has ben sent. I’d like to see DD’s GBRS because we have seen it mattering more and more in recent years so her high CogAT is not giving me the same confidence I had with older DD.

Gotcha. Yeah, and that differs from school to school as well. Some schools the AART will not give it out until after acceptance letters are sent out and others will give it out earlier.

It would be nice to have one process that everyone followed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Each school should be staffed with a full time AART, not sure why FCPS allows principals to do this. It is red flag that a principal does not care about high achieving kids.

Agree. It’s unfair to the students at those schools.

Not necessarily. Often it comes down to size of the school. We are at a center and have a part time AART and I think that is just fine. Pull out the AAP kids (who don’t need the AART) and we are a small school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They have to get referrals in far enough in advance so they know who to build packets for. Once the referrals are submitted, the AART has to get with the teachers to build the packets. They have to find work samples and there are meetings to discuss GBRSs. That takes time. I think the AART at our school works at at least one other school, someone told me that she is at three schools total.

The deadline for referrals and parents submitted material is a hard deadline. They will not accept things past that date, regardless of when they send things to the Central Committee.

Interesting. Our Title I school has a full-time AART.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They have to get referrals in far enough in advance so they know who to build packets for. Once the referrals are submitted, the AART has to get with the teachers to build the packets. They have to find work samples and there are meetings to discuss GBRSs. That takes time. I think the AART at our school works at at least one other school, someone told me that she is at three schools total.

The deadline for referrals and parents submitted material is a hard deadline. They will not accept things past that date, regardless of when they send things to the Central Committee.

Interesting. Our Title I school has a full-time AART.

I am not surprised that Title I schools have a full time AART. There is additional funding for Title I schools to cover smaller class sizes. Also Title I schools are more likely to have a Young Scholar program that I think is run by the AART.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They have to get referrals in far enough in advance so they know who to build packets for. Once the referrals are submitted, the AART has to get with the teachers to build the packets. They have to find work samples and there are meetings to discuss GBRSs. That takes time. I think the AART at our school works at at least one other school, someone told me that she is at three schools total.

The deadline for referrals and parents submitted material is a hard deadline. They will not accept things past that date, regardless of when they send things to the Central Committee.

I wasN’t asking to see if there was flexibility. I was asking because we can request the packet after it has ben sent. I’d like to see DD’s GBRS because we have seen it mattering more and more in recent years so her high CogAT is not giving me the same confidence I had with older DD.

Gotcha. Yeah, and that differs from school to school as well. Some schools the AART will not give it out until after acceptance letters are sent out and others will give it out earlier.

It would be nice to have one process that everyone followed.

+1 At our school it isn’t given out until after decisions are mailed.

[Anonymous]

Our old school chose to get more special ed teachers and aids vs AART. The smarter kids moved on to the AAP center 2 miles down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Each school should be staffed with a full time AART, not sure why FCPS allows principals to do this. It is red flag that a principal does not care about high achieving kids.

This is the funniest post ever! You think that principals are sitting around with buckets of money and decide NOT to hire full-time AARTs. That is seriously funny.

Here’s the scoop: It’s a staffed position, just like the counselor position or school based technology specialist position. It’s dependent on your school’s enrollment. Now a principal technically could used school funds—the same funds to buy paper, materials, desks, toilet paper,etc—to “buy” an additional half of an AART position. But typically there are more pressing needs like trying to find a math specialist or an additional reading teacher. Or an IA to help cover all the substitutes that don’t show. Principals would LOVE to have a full-time AART and NOT have to pay for it out of their materials budget. Title 1 schools finally got one this year.