Anonymous
04/11/2025 14:54
Subject: AAP Results and Discussion 2025
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Are the AAP open houses for both parents and kids? The email invites from the principals didn't say.
Ours was both. There were some presentations from current students for everyone, then the kids went on a tour and the parents heard from the teachers and had a Q&A.
Ours is just for the parents but they have a quiet activity (their words) for the kids.
Anonymous
04/11/2025 13:31
Subject: AAP Results and Discussion 2025
Anonymous wrote:Are the AAP open houses for both parents and kids? The email invites from the principals didn't say.
Ours was both. There were some presentations from current students for everyone, then the kids went on a tour and the parents heard from the teachers and had a Q&A.
Anonymous
04/11/2025 13:13
Subject: AAP Results and Discussion 2025
Are the AAP open houses for both parents and kids? The email invites from the principals didn't say.
Anonymous
04/11/2025 11:53
Subject: AAP Results and Discussion 2025
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:When the panic settles here... For those appealing, you've got a three things you can work on: #1) WORK SAMPLES! This is a huge factor in the overall eval. Request the packet so you can see what's been submitted. Your kid might have amazing test scores, but if these aren't consistent with the work, it's a real issue. Original samples will remain in the file, but you've got a month to have your kid produce better ones. Search the archives here for great suggestions (i.e. skip the art projects and focus on the CCT's, etc.); #2) PARENT APPEAL LETTER - Address the deficiencies in the original packet and make sure you justify why your kiddo needs FULL-TIME services where a LIII pull-out isn't enough. Provide new info on CCTs, gifted behavior; #3) Take the WISC... But only if you really feel like it was the score that was inconsistent with the rest or somehow didn't represent. Look here to see what kids from your school got in with. Good luck!
What is a CCT?
Critical and Creative Thinking strategies. It literally give you clues on how to prepare your work sample.
https://www.fcps.edu/academics/elementary/advanced-academic-programs/critical-and-creative-thinking
I am not sure where they came up with this but I can assure you it is not evidence based. You can be gifted or advanced and not use many of these.
Not PP, but it really doesn't matter, does it. The AARTs and 2nd grade teachers who review packets are trained on these.
I get it, and if I were a parent preparing an appeal, I would give it a try. But I assume if you (like I) think this is a reasonable thing to do for work samples, you would have no argument with parents who helped their kids prepare for the standardized testing.
Given that I did do a prep book with each of my kids for both the CogAT and the NNAT, I'm not one of the ones who appears on here screaming about prep.
Anonymous
04/11/2025 11:51
Subject: AAP Results and Discussion 2025
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:When the panic settles here... For those appealing, you've got a three things you can work on: #1) WORK SAMPLES! This is a huge factor in the overall eval. Request the packet so you can see what's been submitted. Your kid might have amazing test scores, but if these aren't consistent with the work, it's a real issue. Original samples will remain in the file, but you've got a month to have your kid produce better ones. Search the archives here for great suggestions (i.e. skip the art projects and focus on the CCT's, etc.); #2) PARENT APPEAL LETTER - Address the deficiencies in the original packet and make sure you justify why your kiddo needs FULL-TIME services where a LIII pull-out isn't enough. Provide new info on CCTs, gifted behavior; #3) Take the WISC... But only if you really feel like it was the score that was inconsistent with the rest or somehow didn't represent. Look here to see what kids from your school got in with. Good luck!
What is a CCT?
Critical and Creative Thinking strategies. It literally give you clues on how to prepare your work sample.
https://www.fcps.edu/academics/elementary/advanced-academic-programs/critical-and-creative-thinking
I am not sure where they came up with this but I can assure you it is not evidence based. You can be gifted or advanced and not use many of these.
Not PP, but it really doesn't matter, does it. The AARTs and 2nd grade teachers who review packets are trained on these.
I get it, and if I were a parent preparing an appeal, I would give it a try. But I assume if you (like I) think this is a reasonable thing to do for work samples, you would have no argument with parents who helped their kids prepare for the standardized testing.
Anonymous
04/11/2025 11:40
Subject: AAP Results and Discussion 2025
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:When the panic settles here... For those appealing, you've got a three things you can work on: #1) WORK SAMPLES! This is a huge factor in the overall eval. Request the packet so you can see what's been submitted. Your kid might have amazing test scores, but if these aren't consistent with the work, it's a real issue. Original samples will remain in the file, but you've got a month to have your kid produce better ones. Search the archives here for great suggestions (i.e. skip the art projects and focus on the CCT's, etc.); #2) PARENT APPEAL LETTER - Address the deficiencies in the original packet and make sure you justify why your kiddo needs FULL-TIME services where a LIII pull-out isn't enough. Provide new info on CCTs, gifted behavior; #3) Take the WISC... But only if you really feel like it was the score that was inconsistent with the rest or somehow didn't represent. Look here to see what kids from your school got in with. Good luck!
What is a CCT?
Critical and Creative Thinking strategies. It literally give you clues on how to prepare your work sample.
https://www.fcps.edu/academics/elementary/advanced-academic-programs/critical-and-creative-thinking
I am not sure where they came up with this but I can assure you it is not evidence based. You can be gifted or advanced and not use many of these.
Not PP, but it really doesn't matter, does it. The AARTs and 2nd grade teachers who review packets are trained on these.
Anonymous
04/11/2025 11:35
Subject: AAP Results and Discussion 2025
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:When the panic settles here... For those appealing, you've got a three things you can work on: #1) WORK SAMPLES! This is a huge factor in the overall eval. Request the packet so you can see what's been submitted. Your kid might have amazing test scores, but if these aren't consistent with the work, it's a real issue. Original samples will remain in the file, but you've got a month to have your kid produce better ones. Search the archives here for great suggestions (i.e. skip the art projects and focus on the CCT's, etc.); #2) PARENT APPEAL LETTER - Address the deficiencies in the original packet and make sure you justify why your kiddo needs FULL-TIME services where a LIII pull-out isn't enough. Provide new info on CCTs, gifted behavior; #3) Take the WISC... But only if you really feel like it was the score that was inconsistent with the rest or somehow didn't represent. Look here to see what kids from your school got in with. Good luck!
What is a CCT?
Critical and Creative Thinking strategies. It literally give you clues on how to prepare your work sample.
https://www.fcps.edu/academics/elementary/advanced-academic-programs/critical-and-creative-thinking
I am not sure where they came up with this but I can assure you it is not evidence based. You can be gifted or advanced and not use many of these.
Anonymous
04/11/2025 10:54
Subject: AAP Results and Discussion 2025
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:When the panic settles here... For those appealing, you've got a three things you can work on: #1) WORK SAMPLES! This is a huge factor in the overall eval. Request the packet so you can see what's been submitted. Your kid might have amazing test scores, but if these aren't consistent with the work, it's a real issue. Original samples will remain in the file, but you've got a month to have your kid produce better ones. Search the archives here for great suggestions (i.e. skip the art projects and focus on the CCT's, etc.); #2) PARENT APPEAL LETTER - Address the deficiencies in the original packet and make sure you justify why your kiddo needs FULL-TIME services where a LIII pull-out isn't enough. Provide new info on CCTs, gifted behavior; #3) Take the WISC... But only if you really feel like it was the score that was inconsistent with the rest or somehow didn't represent. Look here to see what kids from your school got in with. Good luck!
What is a CCT?
Critical and Creative Thinking strategies. It literally give you clues on how to prepare your work sample.
https://www.fcps.edu/academics/elementary/advanced-academic-programs/critical-and-creative-thinking
Anonymous
04/11/2025 10:40
Subject: AAP Results and Discussion 2025
Anonymous wrote:When the panic settles here... For those appealing, you've got a three things you can work on: #1) WORK SAMPLES! This is a huge factor in the overall eval. Request the packet so you can see what's been submitted. Your kid might have amazing test scores, but if these aren't consistent with the work, it's a real issue. Original samples will remain in the file, but you've got a month to have your kid produce better ones. Search the archives here for great suggestions (i.e. skip the art projects and focus on the CCT's, etc.); #2) PARENT APPEAL LETTER - Address the deficiencies in the original packet and make sure you justify why your kiddo needs FULL-TIME services where a LIII pull-out isn't enough. Provide new info on CCTs, gifted behavior; #3) Take the WISC... But only if you really feel like it was the score that was inconsistent with the rest or somehow didn't represent. Look here to see what kids from your school got in with. Good luck!
What is a CCT?
Anonymous
04/10/2025 11:08
Subject: AAP Results and Discussion 2025
When the panic settles here... For those appealing, you've got a three things you can work on: #1) WORK SAMPLES! This is a huge factor in the overall eval. Request the packet so you can see what's been submitted. Your kid might have amazing test scores, but if these aren't consistent with the work, it's a real issue. Original samples will remain in the file, but you've got a month to have your kid produce better ones. Search the archives here for great suggestions (i.e. skip the art projects and focus on the CCT's, etc.); #2) PARENT APPEAL LETTER - Address the deficiencies in the original packet and make sure you justify why your kiddo needs FULL-TIME services where a LIII pull-out isn't enough. Provide new info on CCTs, gifted behavior; #3) Take the WISC... But only if you really feel like it was the score that was inconsistent with the rest or somehow didn't represent. Look here to see what kids from your school got in with. Good luck!
Anonymous
04/10/2025 11:04
Subject: AAP Results and Discussion 2025
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is anyone else still waiting for results? We're in the WSHS pyramid and still don't have anything.
Maybe they forgot your packet? Reach out to the AART
Reached out to the AART and the AAP central office, and waiting for the eligibility email to be sent/re-sent. I just got an email with information for the full time AAP orientation at the center school, though. Does that mean my DC probably got accepted?
FWIW it probably went to a weird email. This happens every year. Whoever enrolled your child in your family used an email that you don't typically check, or that has since changed, and you haven't found it. Or it's stuck in spam.
You can find enrolling parent email in SIS.
Finally got it straight today! Sharing in case this happens to someone else. For some reason, gmail was blocking the aap@fcps.edu email from even going through. It wasn't even going to Spam. We had to whitelist the email address. Our DC was found eligible.
Anonymous
04/10/2025 08:36
Subject: Re:AAP Results and Discussion 2025
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Current Grade: 2nd grade
NNAT: 148
CoGAT: 139
In Pool (Yes/No): Yes
iReady Math Percentile: 99
iReady Reading Percentile: 86
HOPE (good/bad/etc, # of exceptional subjects): 1 almost always, 4 often, 4 sometimes, 2 rarely. and 5 exceptional subjects - 2e (anxious) student
Pyramid: Chantilly
In/not in: Not In
Submitting an appeal and getting WISC done. would appreciate any suggestions and thoughts on what additional info to include with appeal?
Don't appeal. Your child is definitely smart and qualified. The issue is the HOPE rating. Anything in the sometimes and rarely will automatically DQ him/her.
The WISC would need to be 150+
Most of these schools are looking for the 'MODEL' student.
While your child is smart, his/her current teacher did not give him/her a great hope rating and that really is the key. The grades is just a filter to see who is eligible and the real deciding factor is whether your child is going to be problematic for the school/teacher.
I rather you not get your hopes up and go through all these efforts and spend $400 at GMU to do the WISC test to end up only in disappointment.
Parent from a mid-SES pyramid here. If AAP kids are supposed to be the model student, someone forgot to tell the reviewers of all of my kids' cohorts in AAP. I can't tell you the number of times my oldest waited and waited in a group project for some slacker to do something, only to finally end up doing 90% of the project herself. Or the behavior issues (from students AND teachers) we had to address with administration. Or the teasing/bullying. Or the times my kid was the designated helper kid of another theoretically advanced academic student.
Yes the advanced math was useful. Yes the peer group was somewhat calmer than gen ed. But seriously - at least half these kids were far from model students and some of the teachers were the ones nobody wanted their kid stuck with.
Anonymous
04/10/2025 08:11
Subject: Re:AAP Results and Discussion 2025
Anonymous wrote:Current Grade: 2nd grade
NNAT: 148
CoGAT: 139
In Pool (Yes/No): Yes
iReady Math Percentile: 99
iReady Reading Percentile: 86
HOPE (good/bad/etc, # of exceptional subjects): 1 almost always, 4 often, 4 sometimes, 2 rarely. and 5 exceptional subjects - 2e (anxious) student
Pyramid: Chantilly
In/not in: Not In
Submitting an appeal and getting WISC done. would appreciate any suggestions and thoughts on what additional info to include with appeal?
I would guess that it is the reading iReady. They see that your child is smart and ahead in math but only a bit advanced in reading, they are probably targetting Advanced Math for your kid. If you choose to appeal I would look for some way to show what your child is reading and how well they are comprehending the material. I remember being confused with a reading evaluation because DS was great at decoding, but his comprehension wasn't at the same level, and I missed that they are two totally different skills.