KHSD GATE Program - Centennial High School

The GATE Program at Centennial High School Ben Sherley, Assistant Principal

Leanne Raddatz, Gate/AP Facilitator

General Information GATE is a 9th and 10th Grade Program GATE is a voluntary program that provides educational opportunities that challenge and involve students. GATE provides enrichment as opposed to mere acceleration. GATE courses are qualitatively different. – Examples: more independent projects, more labs, more oral work, more long term assignments, more student responsibility for research assignments, more choice

Identification of Students First Stage: Nomination Purpose: – Be inclusive. – Provide equal treatment of all students at assessment stage. – Identify a pool of potential students for more detailed assessment.

Nomination Cont’d. Nomination Process – Teacher Nomination – Parent Nomination ALL Parent Requests for Student Nominations MUST be made to the junior high teachers in math and English It is these teachers who will then open and submit the assessment criteria for your student from their school site The FINAL date for these parent initiated submissions is February 24th.

Second Stage: Assessment Purpose – Develop a profile of each nominated student’s abilities.

Assessment Criteria – Objective test scores: (STAR, CST based on 7th grade) – GPA – Teacher evaluation

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Process Feeder schools gather assessment criteria and submit to KHSD Assessment information is organized and processed by the KHSD KHSD determines those students eligible for the GATE program CHS is sent the list of selected students GATE coordinator and AP meet to review all candidates for eligibility to insure no eligible student is denied the opportunity for GATE

Assignment Items STAR Scores:

5 pts

4 pts

3 pts

2 pts

1 pts

0 pts

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94-90%

89-85%

84-80%

79-75%