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[quote=Anonymous]Formal identification for ACE (that's what the FCC GT program is called) is at the end of 2nd grade.  In K-2, kids who meet certain criteria are pulled out once a week for reading and/or math class with a GT specialist, who is amazing.  She also pushes into each classroom regularly to get to know all the kids.  In 2nd, kids are also placed in gifted classrooms for one period every day (or 4 days a week) for further enrichment work in math and/or language arts.

After formal identification at the end of 2nd, kids are placed in Tier 1 or Tier 2 (and sometimes Tier 3) depending on their scores.  Both Tier 1 and Tier 2 kids are placed in gifted classrooms for one period 4 days a week for either lang arts or math enrichment or interdiscplinary work.  Tier 2 kids also get a weekly pullout session in math and/or language arts that includes things like math problem solving and competitions, vocabulary/analogy competition, debate, deeper literature analysis, etc.  The two teachers who run the pullouts are wonderful and beloved.

Starting in 3rd grade, and separate from the GT identification, there is accelerated math for kids who meet the requirements.  Those kids are learning the math curriculum for the next grade level (e.g., 4th in 3rd).

In addition, there is supposed to be in-class differentiation for clusters of ACE kids in each classroom in 1st-5th grades.  The effectiveness of this depends to a large extent on the skill and desire of the classroom teacher.

In middle school, there is a continued accelerated math sequence as well as Honors English and enrichment electives.

I will say that there is a large cohort of GT kids in FCC so it's pretty easy for gifted kids to have academic peers even if they are not in a "center" like in FCPS.

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