1. Welcome to Kent Gardens Level IV Orientation

2. Problem Solving  Solve the following problem

3. Overview of Evening  General Welcome  Introductions  Parent/Student Orientation Sessions  Questions - Parents  Parents/students re-unite

4. Student Activity

5. Goals of Tonight  To learn about Kent Gardens Level IV program  To answer questions that can help with making a decision about placement

6. Kent Gardens - A Special Place Where Friendships Flourish ~ Où fleurissent les amitiés. ~ Où fleurissent les amitiés. Meeting the needs of the whole child through KG Pride….. o Patient – being able to wait for your turn o Respectful – to everyone, caring about others o Inclusive – to include everyone o Doing Our Best – coming to school prepared to learn o Excited to Learn – have fun with learning

7. Why a Level IV program at Kent Gardens?  54 + local level IV based schools  Students can: stay in their neighborhood school stay in their neighborhood school maintain current friendships maintain current friendships enjoy a challenging curriculum enjoy a challenging curriculum continue to benefit from the French curriculum continue to benefit from the French curriculum

8. Will it be different than Churchill ES or other center programs?  Same AAP curriculum – all content areas – FCPS Guidelines  Same textbooks/online resources  Students integrated in specials and in certain instructional times  Teachers – Certified and experienced with AAP students  Math/Science – French and English

9. What Will Next Year Look Like?  Receive Level IV services - math/science both in French and English  Receive Level IV services in language arts and social studies – mixed for immersion and in boundary  Note: As needed, identified level III students will be mixed in with level IV students

10. Eligibility – Elementary, Middle and High School Progression  In Boundary – KG, Longfellow, McLean  French Immersion/Out of Boundary – KG, Longfellow, Base High School  Level IV Eligibility - Grades 3 - 8  Options for high school – TJHSST, Marshall IB – application for admission

11. What it looks like….  Lang.Arts/SS (Level IV students) (Level IV students)  Lang.Arts/SS (Level IV students)  Math/Science (non immersion/English)  Math/Science (French)

12. Language Arts/ Social Studies  Document Based Questioning  Jacob’s Ladder  Building Language  Caesar’s English/Word Within The Word  Great Debate  The Dig  Socratic Seminar

13. Math/Science  CML  VAML  Groundworks  Hands-On Equations  M3/M2  Project Clarion (K-3)  Jason Project (4-6)

14. M3 – In Search Of The Yeti

15. Technology  STEAM – programming  iPads and Type to Learn – Daily 5  Research – Nonfiction Investigations  Google Classroom – Online blogs  Presentations – Powerpoint, Pixie, Word, Scratch  Survey Feedback – focus on acquisition of laptops and iPads!  MyOn – Science books/Social Studies  GATP– Fifth Grade

16. How Can We Achieve This?  Scheduling content blocks LA/SS and M/S…continue to build community  Differentiation, class size – FCPS regs

17. Why Differentiate for Advanced Academics?  Develops positive self-esteem and self- efficacy.  Learning is earned and real.  Motivation increases.

18. What Do Children Need for Intellectual Growth? Challenge – different work or a different pace Opportunities….  to work with intellectual peers  for independent work  to have input/choice in investigations or products

19. Intelligence is not how much you know or how fast you learn, but how you behave when you don’t know the answer. So... if we want to develop children who think critically, we must present curricular problems, challenges, discrepancies or dilemmas for which the answers are not easily accessible.

20. Differentiate Content (What students learn)  Use advanced reading, resources, and research materials.  Present content with greater levels of depth, breadth, complexity, or abstractness through levels of questioning, problem- based learning, and instruction that focuses on “big ideas.”

21. Differentiate Product (How students demonstrate learning)  Offer assignments that are more open- ended or ambiguous in nature.  Assign products that require greater levels of independence. greater levels of independence.  Assess work with indicators of quality that model the work of experts in the field.

22. Differentiate Process (How students learn)  Accelerate the pace of teaching and learning.  Compact basic knowledge and skills in core content areas.  Apply ideas and skills to contexts that are unfamiliar and dissimilar from those explored in class.  Provide opportunities to make choices to explore deeper understandings and apply new knowledge.

23. How Parents Can Support Their Child Emphasize encouragement rather than pressure. Encouragement emphasizes effort, perseverance, and the steps taken toward accomplishing a goal. Encouragement emphasizes effort, perseverance, and the steps taken toward accomplishing a goal. Pressure to perform emphasizes getting A’s, achievement, such as winning awards Pressure to perform emphasizes getting A’s, achievement, such as winning awards

24. The Students

26. Enjoy your gifted child and remember that he or she is, first of all, a child.

27. Events Events

28. Beyond The Classroom!  STEAM Night  International Night  Saturday STEMS  After School Academies  Math Counts (before school)/Algebra class  Jr. Lego League  Odyssey of the Mind  Science Olympiad  KG PTA Summer Camp  Green Team

29. The Staff! #kgpride

30. Reminders/Info  Commit by April 29 to AAP office  E-mail Debra Wines at drwines@fcps.edu or Holly McGuigan at hsmcguigan@fcps.edu if there is anything unique about your child that we need to know for placement. drwines@fcps.edu  To get a copy of the online packet go to this website:  http://www.fcps.edu/is/aap/pdfs/parents/pa rentpacket.pdf

31. QR Code For Parent Information Packet  Below is the QR code that you can use to get to the online packet.

32. Q&A Students Return