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ALPs

Stargate Public Charter School

Board Report

November 29, 2023

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Legalities of the ALP

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Adams 12 Timeline

1,252 ALPs

& Growing

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High School ALP/ICAP Blend Celebration

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Focus Areas

  • Social Studies & Behavioral Sciences
  • Arts & Humanities
  • Mathematical Sciences
  • Natural & Physical Sciences
  • Literacy

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Naviance - Strategies

-Content

-Process

-Product

-Environment

-Career & College Research & Planning

-Supportive Discussions

-Clubs

-Behavioral strategies and techniques

-Service learning or volunteer work, community involvement

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K-8 Three-Way Collaboration

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Infinite Campus

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Infinite Campus - Academic Goal

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Infinite Campus – Strategy Selection

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Supplemental Service Option

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Student & Parent Input

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Shifts

Meaningful

Personalized

Parent Input

Systems

Training

Support

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The Advanced Learning Plan (ALP)

  • Creates a pathway for student strengths and interests
  • Drives individualized differentiation and enrichment
  • Integrates learning and affective goals and strategies
  • Fosters a collective responsibility
  • Supports students in their growth

to empower each gifted learner to explore and realize their potential.

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Training, Systems, and Support

August

K-8 Teachers – ALPs 101 & Shifts

High School - Naviance and ALP/ICAP Blend

September & October – Time and Support

October - December – Implementing and Monitoring

January - February – Continue Implementation & K-8 Communication with Parents

March - May – Implementation & Annual EOY Review

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Meaningful and Personalized

  • A focus back on students and what they want to do!

  • Connected to “thinking” skills which can apply to any content

  • and can align to many different educational standards.

Essential Skills Focus for K - 8 Students

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“CO Essential Skills” were formally known as “21st Century Skills.”

They were developed as an extension of the Colorado Academic Standards.

The shift focuses on these Essential Skills as the foundation for the academic and affective ALP goals.

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Essential Skills Focus

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Academic Goal(s)

Essential Skill “thinking” goals connected to interest and standards for each identified area of giftedness.

Affective Goal

Essential Skill goals aligned to the NAGC standards and “educator action” strategies

Instructional Strategies

Differentiation for content, process, product, environment.

Students are provided with multiple opportunities to demonstrate their learning and monitor progress towards their goals.

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Academic/Strength Area Goal

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The teacher aligns student interest with an essential skill from the

Critical Thinking & Problem Solving

Creativity & Innovation

Inquiry & Analysis

Informed Risk Taking

Information Literacy

These “thinking skills” can be applied to any content area in any grade level all year long.

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Support

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Design a student-centered goal

(Cynthia) will engage in differentiated learning connected to (General Intellectual Ability) .

(Cynthia) will show growth in the (critical thinking and problem solving) essential skill

by choosing a real-world problem, developing an awareness of multiple viewpoints on the problem, evaluating potential solutions, and determining which might be most useful in different situations).

The goal will be measured with a rubric developed by Cynthia and the teacher and various opportunities to demonstrate learning aligned to the strategies selected will be given in the classroom.

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using the ALP goal template in orange text. (Goal entered in EWS)

This can be progress monitored for growth using the rubric.

Teachers will name/list demonstrations of learning in strategies comment box.