Pp here- never mind. I checked parentvue and is just the info on the screening process.

I have a letter from MCPS AEI in the mail for my 2nd grader today. Anyone else receive it and know what it may be? Wondering if it's cogat related....

It's one of the criteria. You don't have to fill it out but if you don't your child might not get the "gifted" label. Not that the label really means anything. When I get the criteria on the letter, it was a Y or N if the parent filled it out. My friend's daughter was not labeled gifted because my friend didn't do the form.

This is the document that explains it:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CBV-EdM_af3s2TzUmQr4T8bA9kMYMZ-L96jRM2spKDA

Basically, as part of SIPPI/GT identification, the parent input form is one of three possible behavioral sources, along with teacher and school staff input, where, if a threshold is met, there is a lower threshold among the cognitive measure (CogAT, if at the grade levels given) and academic measures (DIBELS/Lectura, MAP, MCAP -- depending on grade level).

Though similar academic measures (MAP & grades) are used for central identification for the criteria-based magnet lotteries (4th/5th grade CES, the Humanities MS programs and the Math/Science/Computer Science MS programs), the processes for that are separate from the GT identification process, which is state-mandated (but with MCPS-defined criteria). One correlates with the other, but is not influenced by the other.

For reference:

CES FAQ -- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k0D-Z3uAc8ydu4P7gegUxkKMsV2_dDbbP-hnIB-oTjA

Criteria-based MS Program FAQ -- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-cnoWQ61gfF2ybNI8ReXSV-AhTh5oQqhGzX0tCTqqkk

General Pages:

Special Programs -- https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/specialprograms

Accelerated & Enriched Instruction -- https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/enriched

does ES GT program start form 4th grade? what is the use for 2nd grade to fill it?

Decide to do what. The child already did cogat. Is there more than that?

You don't have to fill it out. If you do decide to do it, I think you need to do it via Parentvue (vs a link from an email). I remember that was an issue last year.

Does all 2 nd grader parent need to fill the GT parent input letter?