• Ensure a rigorous core curriculum based on Indiana Common Core Standards and Indiana Academic Standards
• Provide a differentiated curriculum that responds to the academic needs of high ability students
• Offer accelerated curriculum to meet the individual needs
• Develop the academic abilities of students so that they will be able to master new and difficult curriculum challenges
• Integrate the content areas through key concepts, issues, and themes
• Assist in meeting the unique social and emotional needs of high ability students
• Foster a learning environment which values and enhances intellectual abilities and interaction among intellectual peers so that students may become self-reflective learners
• Expose students to cultural experiences
• Provide students with opportunities to become self-directed learners, which requires organizational skills, study skills, and persistence in the face of difficulty
• Develop critical, creative, and evaluative thinking processes so that students will be able to address complex issues with the necessary tools of problem-solving.

Clay Community Schools is dedicated to providing services to students in the regular classroom who have been identified as high ability students. These students will be provided with a differentiated curriculum that is beyond the regular classroom curriculum and is focused on the academic, social, and emotional needs of high ability students. All teachers who provide services to high ability students will participate in on-going research-based professional development and will collaborate with the High Ability Coordinator to help ensure that individual student needs are being met. The High Ability Coordinator will oversee the implementation of program services. The Broad Based Planning Committee (BBPC) will help determine the service provisions offered and program service changes to be made annually. All stakeholders will receive notification of the program's multiple exposures. (School newsletter, parent meeting, and school website)

Identification Process: Students must meet the high ability target in at least two areas.

Kindergarten - Second Grade

• Parents and/or teachers may request testing by the corporation school psychologists to assess student academic abilities.
• Kindergarten through grade two students are referred by the classroom teacher based on classroom performance and/or classroom assessments.
• NWEA student scores - A student must score 95% or higher on the Math and/or Reading assessments.
• Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAt)- A student should have a stanine score of 9 and/or a standard age score of 130 or higher.

Grade Three - Grade Twelve

• Parents and/or teachers may request testing by the corporation school psychologists to assess student academic abilities.
• Teachers are provided with corporation data that has predetermined student high ability status.
• Parents and/or teachers may make referrals for students to be considered for high ability programming.
• Assessments used for identification:

• ILearn Exam - A student should score above proficiency on the Math and/or English/LA portion of the exam.

• NWEA Test Scores - A student should score 95% or higher on the Math, Reading, and/or Language Arts assessments.

• Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAt) - A student should have a stanine score of 9 and/or a standard age score of 130 or higher.

Students' high ability status is posted on PowerSchool under Programs for parents and teachers to use.

If additional testing is needed or requested, the school psychologist will be utilized to perform classroom observations, assessments, and/or testing.

If a student does not maintain the standards of a high ability student, a student may be excluded from participation in programs and/or activities until classroom performance improves.

Programming Options and Levels of Service

• Level One: Services for ALL Students
• Differentiated Instruction
• Learning Centers
• Tiered Assignments
• Learning Contracts
• Cross-age Grouping
• Flexible Grouping
• Enrichment Clusters

Level Two: Services for MANY Students

• Science Fair
• School-based Clubs
• Academic Teams and Competitions

Level Three: Services for SOME Students Cluster Grouping

• Cluster Grouping

• Honors or Accelerated Courses

• Advanced Placement Courses

• Dual Credit Courses

Level Four: Services for a FEW Students

• Early Admission

• Grade Advancement

• Early Graduation

Clay City High School

The Advanced Placement (AP) Program is a cooperative educational endeavor between secondary schools and colleges and universities. It allows high school students to undertake college-level academic learning in AP courses and gives them the opportunity to show that they have mastered the advanced material by taking AP exams. Students can receive credit, advanced placement, or both from thousands of colleges and universities that participate in the Advanced Placement Program.

AP courses make substantial academic demands on students. Students are required to do outside reading and other assignments and to demonstrate the analytical skills and writing abilities expected of first-year students in a strong college program. This experience helps students develop the intellectual skills and self-discipline they will need in college. For these motivated students, AP can also reduce college costs and time to obtain a degree.

Clay City High School offers Pre-AP courses in English, mathematics, science and social studies in an effort to help students acquire the academic skills necessary for success in AP courses. Additionally, we offer Advanced Placement courses in Language and Composition, Literature and Composition, US History, Calculus, Statistics, Chemistry, and Physics. Please see your guidance counselor if you are interested in any of these opportunities.

Northview High School

The Advanced Placement (AP) Program is a cooperative educational endeavor between secondary schools and colleges and universities. It allows high school students to undertake college-level academic learning in AP courses and gives them the opportunity to show that they have mastered the advanced material by taking AP exams. Students can receive credit, advanced placement, or both from thousands of colleges and universities that participate in the Advanced Placement Program.

AP courses make substantial academic demands on students. Students are required to do outside reading and other assignments and to demonstrate the analytical skills and writing abilities expected of first-year students in a strong college program. This experience helps students develop the intellectual skills and self-discipline they will need in college. For these motivated students, AP can also reduce college costs and time to obtain a degree.

Northview High School currently offers Pre-AP courses in English, mathematics, science and social studies are in place to help students acquire the academic skills necessary for success in AP courses. Additionally, we offer Advanced Placement courses in Language and Composition, European History, US History, Psychology, Calculus, Statistics, Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, and Physics B & C. Please see your guidance counselor if you are interested in any of these opportunities.

Talent development is the deliberate effort to seek, recognize, respond to, and enhance the development of all students' academic strengths, talents, and interests.

Rationale for Talent Development

All students have unique talents and/or abilities that must be nurtured.

A child's talent must be developed to emerge to its greatest potential.

All students have worthwhile potentials and interests that must be developed.

New opportunities enable talents and interests to change, grow, and/or emerge over time. Some students show advanced levels of talent and accomplishment very early in their lives. With sustained effort, encouragement, and support, many students will continue to pursue the development of their strengths.

Nurturing talent potential is far more important for educators than simply categorizing, labeling, or sorting.

Talent development is fostered through differentiated instruction. It is the obligation of home, school, and community to be talent "spotters" in order to become talent developers.

Appropriate and challenging education experiences are fundamental responsibilities of the school.

Talent spotting emphasizes searching for and documenting students' unique characteristics and their related instructional needs, enabling us to focus on bringing out the best in all students.

Helping students to recognize and understand their own emerging talents and then to use their self-knowledge in personal goal setting and career planning are important outcomes of talent development.

High ability student reporting period to the Indiana Department of Education is May 1 through June 6 (or five days after the last day of the school year).

Student information must be reported in General High Ability, Math, and/or English.

• General Intellectual means High Ability in both Math and English
• Math High Ability Only
• English/Language Arts High Ability Only

The Gifted Education Resource Institute has a very exciting summer planned for students of all ages! Kindergarten through fourth grade students have the opportunity to participate in Super Summer and 5th-12th grade students can join Summer Residential. A digital copy of the brochures, current camp dates, and promotional videos can be found at the following website: http://geri.education.purdue.edu/youth_programs/index.html.