Minutes from 3/15/2018 Meeting

3/15/2018 HiCap Meeting  

Assessment update

• K and 1 are mostly done
• 2^nd done by mid next week Torrence, ITBS later
• Middle school except Northshore done by end of next week Torrence, ITBS 6-7 a bit later
• All other testing will have schedule one week from tomorrow, 23^rd
• Week of 26^th: scheduling private school kids and makeups
• Kim would like hicap council to let parents know we will notify before testing. We are calling parents who have not given permission.
• 25 proctors out daily testing – small groups for younger kids
• Been testing for a month (3600 kids to test)
• Single content areas already been taking care of
• Each school has difference of space and factors: principal office, cafeteria, library, 5^th grade camp, ELL assessment, SBA
• Algebra readiness (5^th grade, all eap testing, all hicap in-school math or dual. No other 5^th grader can opt in unless teacher reaches out to niki Arnold-smith – assistant director curriculum and instruction narnoldsmith@nsd.org) (math 7 will be tested and math 6 – 8^th grade ITBS math and orleans Hannah. For timing, 6^th grade may take 8^th grade for algebra readiness then have to take 7^th for HiCap testing if timing isn’t correct. )
• Testing finishing in May, decisions in June
• Scoring for Torrence will be sent in – 4-6 weeks to score then team will convene to make determinations
• Everyone will get a letter and email with all scores and offer or not of placement
• Will call if parent doesn’t respond to offer of placement
• Did not communicate with the students who did not make score cut off for Naglieri

  Advisory team

• K-12 HiCap advisory team makes recommendations
• Adding Jonny Phu to Advisory team: MTSS coordinator and equity and diversity task force member
• Holistic, AAP, EAP service models discussed tonight
• Retaining students and meeting their needs is a focus
• Need to support teachers new to teaching HiCap classes. PD will be offered – including principals to inform on the difference in HiCap teaching/students
• PD should include message that hicap classes aren’t easier – have many more challenges than gen ed class
• Maybe having a HiCap 101 for principals, teachers to get them up to speed. Everyone should have some of this

Middle schools:

• All 6^th grade AAP kids will be at their home middle school next year
• 7^th and 8^th grade next year. No one will be asked to move to home schools if they don’t’ want to
• Those going through the process now will stay at neighborhood middle school and AAP classes will be created.
• Skyview has enough for 6-8^th AAP and has decided to do so
• Timbercrest and Kenmore will have 6^th grade AAP but have not decided on 7^th and 8^th
• What is the difference between Challenge and AAP in curriculum? Catalog says they are basically the same. Can we make a distinction?
• Can teachers teach 6-8 aap classes rather than 6^th grade gen ed, challenge and AAP? Fewer aap teachers but better trained in hicap

EAP:

• 4 sites are at capacity.
• All newly eligible will have an EAP spot.
• Each EAP schools are estimating EAP students coming in
• Won’t have numbers for all school having EAP, but we may have more sites – Fernwood may have numbers – some key sites will open in some grades. Maybe 4-5 more sites could have one or more EAP classes. Possibly split grades.
• Longer ride kids will look at going back to home school if possible - voluntary
• Current eap at other schools wouldn’t be required to move back to home school but could.
• Puyallup has gone to a neighborhood school hicap model and are now thinking of moving back to a centralized model. Why? Should look into this

ReOrg

• 1000 inquiries for score reports, 200 more every week or so
• With great amount of work – scheduling, email, voice mail, proctor communications,
• Trish, Kim, Lauri all working with Jen now
• Phone will always be answered by Lauri or a temp – be patient
• Emails will be reviewed by Lauri with follow up by Kim
• Kim will focus on scheduling and have all kids scheduled for testing by next Friday – will notify families
• Jen will notify principals
• Trish is working on score reports and sending them out.
• Jen will handle high school emails, or emotional issues