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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My gifted kids are in 2nd and 5th in APS. My mom has her masters degree in fired education and both my spouse and I were in traditional cohort tracked, pull out gifted programs in the 1980s. I like the gifted program in APS and I think it’s more equitable. Unless your kid is Doogie Houser, it can work for you too.

Get your 3rd grader on the upper elementary version of Dreambox and get signed up for the Parent Dashboard so you get weekly reports. Bring your kid’s iPad home and watch them do Dreambox. Check what lessons align with each standard and work with your teacher or math interventionist to assign your kid lessons.

Get your kid books that align with their reading level and make sure they get free reading time once they finish Lexia.

Find out what differentiation is available and how kids know where those assignments are. For us they are in Canvas and they are optional and my kids don’t choose them so we do them at home.

Just like a kid who is behind or has a learning disability, you need to be more involved. Try to do that without being “that parent” who created more work for everyone and you will likely get help from your school.[/quote]Ugh, not Dreambox and Lexia.  Those programs move so slowly.  They're the opposite of engaging for a gifted learner. No creativity or problem solving.  Just basic spoonfed content that you have to wait for the program to read aloud to you at a snail's pace before you can click the answer.  [/quote]

Agreed all the iPad apps are garbage. These apps are just catatonic electronic babysitters and not learning tools. Dreambox is not learning how to do math. Lexia is just reading picture ebooks and doing meaningless activities. They need a teacher that actually understands gifted learning and not just regurgitates some secondhand pedagogy. My kids were something like 4-6 levels (or I think more, don't remember) above grade level lexile score in elementary. It's useless unless they can discuss the readings and write about it with a teacher and peers. Dreambox is also useless since there's no feedback and parents can't see what their kids are getting wrong. We did a lot of supplementing but why do 8 hours of what amounts to special ed at school then? They're entitled to an education appropriate to their level.[/quote]

Exactly. My kids don’t do anything close to their level at school and then these iPad programs are supposed to be the answer? It makes no sense. We also supplement, but if all of this is in the name of “equity” is it equitable that since I can afford my kid is learning math at an appropriate level through outside classes while the other kids aren’t? Lowering the bar for everyone makes no sense. We are still struggling with whether private makes sense or if things get better once their is true differentiation in middle school and high school. [/quote]

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