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“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.” BILL BEATTIE

For Primary Enrichment Program PEP is an acronym For Primary Enrichment Program

Information about PEP PEP is a pullout program in the Issaquah School District for highly-capable gifted students in grades K-2. PEP is available at each elementary school in the district. First and Second grade students receive an hour of PEP each week. Kindergarten receives 30 minutes each week. Current Kindergarten students will be screened in October in their classroom. All students will be tested again in the spring of Second Grade for qualification into the SAGE program in 3rd, 4th and 5th grades. PEP students will remain in the program, but will be tested to determine how they will receive services.

Special Approach to Gifted Education SAGE is an acronym For Special Approach to Gifted Education

Information about SAGE SAGE is a program in Issaquah School District for the most highly-capable students in grades 3-5. SAGE is available at each elementary school in the district. Students typically qualify in the spring of their second grade year, begin the program in the fall of third grade, and continue through 5th grade. Once a student qualifies for SAGE, they remain in the HCAP program through twelfth grade. SAGE Math meets once each week for two hours. In those two hours, students work on a variety of activities to provide enrichment and challenge in the area of math. This may be through the use of science or technology.

Ann Swiftney Creekside Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday (425) 837-5239 swiftneya@issaquah.wednet.edu 18 years Classroom Teacher 3 years Administrator 1 year Human Resources PEP/SAGE ???

PEP/SAGE Goals and Objectives Goal 1: Intellectual/Academics To enrich and expand each student’s intellectual horizons. To encourage each student to take responsibility for his/her learning. To make learning a life-long habit. Objectives: The student will learn and practice: Problem solving strategies Information processing skills: classifying, inferring, and predicting; Creative thinking skills: fluency, flexibility, elaboration, and originality; Thinking behaviors: risk-taking, goal-setting, decision making, persistence, inquisitiveness, and self-evaluation.

SAGE Goals and Objectives Goal 2: Social/Emotional To provide a safe environment for gifted students to interact on a regular basis with others who have similar abilities and interests. Objectives: Confidence, ownership, and independence Work cooperatively in groups, collaborate and work independently Produce quality work reflecting excellence, precision, thoroughness, creative innovation, and best effort Responsibility

In PEP and SAGE Math, we focus more on the way students THINK than the content. The units we study are a means for practicing thinking skills, problem solving and creativity.

Probable Units of Study 1st Grade 2nd Grade Problem Solving Liquid Explorations Discovering Density Oobleck Engineering Who Stole Mr. Bear? Fingerprinting Chromatography Secret Formulas Engineering

Probable Units of Study 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade Problem Solving Lego WeDo Scratch Bubbleology Topology or Polyhedraville Paper Towel Testing EV3 Basics Inventions or Capsela Dry Ice Inventions Lego EV3 Skateboard Science Hands On Engineering

Assessments and Evaluations Problem Solving Assessments District—October and March Classroom—Bi-monthly Informal—Weekly Self-Assessments March June Reflection End of Unit Before Self-Assessments

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SAGE Class Requirements Make Up Work Guidelines Basically, students are responsible for any learning they miss while at SAGE. 2. Communicate with the classroom teacher and with me if any problem arises. SAGE Class Requirements Be in class every week. Think deeply. Collaborate. Persist.

A million thanks to the Issaquah Schools Foundation for the very generous grant they provide each year. We have been able to purchase 40 EV3 MindStorms kits to be used with the 5th grade SAGE students in the district. We have also received LEGO Wedo kits and LEGO More To Math kits.We appreciate their ongoing support of gifted education in the Issaquah School District.

Contact Information Ann Swiftney I am at Creekside on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday (425) 837-5239 Email is the best way to contact me… swiftneya@issaquah.wednet.edu