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.
Anonymous wrote:Are the AAP open houses for both parents and kids? The email invites from the principals didn't say.
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
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!
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.
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.
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?