[Ohiogift] A new High Ability blog is now available

[anngift at aol.com]

Westlake serves 15% of their gifted population. I am blasting the news the message that everything is fine. We don't need to change anything. There are other high-performing districts that received As. It would behoove all districts with less than stellar value-added subgroup scores to determine what is actually happening for gifted students rather than dismiss the measure out of hand as inaccurate. 

-- Ann 

 

 

 

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From: Gagel, Shannon <sgagel at aurora-schools.org>
To: anngift <anngift at aol.com>; Ohiogift <Ohiogift at lists.service.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Tue, Oct 8, 2013 10:30 am
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While I would agree that leaving all decision making to local school boards and superintendents would not be a good thing, not all superintendents are against gifted education.
 
Westlake is a high performing district.  Getting a D for the gifted subcategory is less an indication of the lack of rigor or service than it is an indication that the growth expectations are faulty.  If the bulk of your sub-population of students is already at the 95th-99th percentile, HOW can you show growth?  Is it Westlake’s, their superintendent’s, or the GIS’s fault that the metric determining the gifted grade doesn’t allow growth to be shown?  Is it possible that if a Westlake parent looks at a nationally normed test, they would see Westlake students actually show lots of growth?   
 
Can we please not blast districts that actually serve gifted students when there are plenty that earned a better rating without serving students?  Just look at the many districts that have lots of kids identified, 0 served, and they still get better grades.  Is this really a fair system?
 
Shannon Gagel
Gifted Intervention Specialist
Aurora City Schools
 
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Superintendents to Gifted Parents: Who are going to believe, me or your lying data? Read the new High Ability blog at http://wp.me/puUD1-cE


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