How do you move your current Highly Capable Program (HCP) to meet the new requirements?

Chapter 28A.185.020 RCW

The legislature finds that, for highly capable students, access to accelerated learning and enhanced instruction is access to a basic education. There are multiple definitions of highly capable, from intellectual to academic to artistic.

WAC 392-170-035/BISD Definition of Highly Capable Students

As used in this chapter, highly capable students are students who perform or show potential for performing at significantly advanced academic levels when compared with others of their age, experiences, or environments.

Outstanding abilities are seen within students' general intellectual aptitudes, specific academic abilities, and/or creative productivities within a specific domain.

These students are present not only in the general populace, but are present within all protected classes according to Chapters 28A.640 and 28A.642 RCW.

Chapter 28A.185.020 RCW

The research literature strongly supports using multiple criteria to identify highly capable students, and therefore, the legislature does not intend to prescribe a single method.

Instead, the legislature intends to allocate funding based on two and three hundred fourteen one-thousandths percent (2.314%) of each school district's population-

and authorize school districts to identify through the use of multiple, objective criteria those students most highly capable and eligible to receive accelerated learning and enhanced instruction in the program offered by the district

WAC 392-170-030 Substance of Annual School District Plan

The school district's annual plan shall contain the following:

1) A report of the number of K-12 students who are highly capable that the district expects to serve by grade level.

2) A description of the district's plan to identify students.3) A description of the HCP goals.4) A description of the services the HCP will offer.5) A description of the instructional program the HCP will provide.

WAC 392-170-030 Substance of Annual School District Plan

6) A description of ongoing professional development for educators of students who are highly capable and general education staff.

7) A description of how the HCP will be evaluated that includes information on how the district's HCP goals and student achievement outcomes will be measured.

8) A fiscal report.9) Assurances signed by the school district's authorized

representative that the district will comply with all applicable statutes and regulations.

Highly Capable Review Committee MembershipPosition Location Last Name First Name

Co-Chair District Goldsmith JulieCo-Chair District Mosiman BillConsultant Seattle Ghosh Jayasri

Differentiation TOSA District Robbins Glen

Secondary Admin WMS Nelson Kristin

Elementary Admin Sakai Brown SteveElem. Principal Wilkes Belt SherylTeacher BHS Goetsch CathyTeacher WMS Kundtz AnneTeacher Sakai Walter JanaTeacher Blakely Cameron SamTeacher Ordway Dodge JanetteTeacher Wilkes Covert BillTeacher Wilkes Collins KristinTeacher COS Wells MarthaTeacher Ordway Bailey AmandaCommunity Levine JudyCommunity Mulhern PegeenCommunity Stephens StephanieCommunity Cain Cheryl

Jayasri GhoshEducational Consultant

• PhD, Educational Psychology/ Gifted Education – Research in learning styles of gifted children and its

application to the classroom. – Activities and Societies: Phi Delta Kappa Society,

International Students' Association • Adjunct Faculty at Antioch University, Seattle, in the Masters

of Teaching program teaching education courses• Head of Seattle Country Day School and Annie Wright School

serving gifted youth

Highly Capable Review Process

The Highly Capable Review Committee (HCRC) is tasked with the development of a recommendation to the BISD School Board Policy 2166 and Procedure P2166 to bring these documents in alignment with Washington Administrative Code 392-170. This includes the following components:• Definition of Highly Capable Students: 392-170-035 and -036• Nomination and Notification Process: 392-170-045 and -047• Screening, Assessment and Selection: 392-170-055 and -076• Services: 392-170-078 and -080 • Monitoring: 392-170-087

HCRC Process (cont’d)

• Anticipated Duration: 2013 -2014 School Year;• Meeting Frequency: Nine Meetings after school with two of

those meetings all day;• Carry out assigned tasks with agreed upon timelines;• Provide regular and accurate communications to constituent

groups;• Gather and analyze data, research about subject area, and

curriculum and program information;• Develop Recommendations

Potential Impacts

• Expanding services from grades 4-8 to K-12• Creating new processes for identification that

encompasses K-12• Professional development to support staff in

required changes

Process To-date

• Formed Committee• Reviewed new requirements with staff• Surveyed parents• Conducted parent meetings• Identified strengths and areas for

improvement

Next Steps• Provide information to the Board• Meeting with Staff• Meeting – April 17, 2014• Forward the Board Recommendations of

updated policies and procedures• Begin implementation of School Board

approved Recommendations for the 2014 -2015 school year and beyond.