ALPs
Stargate Public Charter School
Board Report
November 29, 2023
Legalities of the ALP
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Adams 12 Timeline
1,252 ALPs
& Growing
High School ALP/ICAP Blend Celebration
Focus Areas
Naviance - Strategies
-Content
-Process
-Product
-Environment
-Career & College Research & Planning
-Supportive Discussions
-Clubs
-Behavioral strategies and techniques
-Service learning or volunteer work, community involvement
K-8 Three-Way Collaboration
Infinite Campus
Infinite Campus - Academic Goal
Infinite Campus – Strategy Selection
Supplemental Service Option
Student & Parent Input
Shifts
Meaningful
Personalized
Parent Input
Systems
Training
Support
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The Advanced Learning Plan (ALP)
to empower each gifted learner to explore and realize their potential.
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
Meaningful and Personalized
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.
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.
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.
Support
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.