Advanced Education Services impacts and benefits….

1. Advanced Education Servicesimpacts and benefits…. Las Cruces Public Schools

2. Mission Advanced Education Services recognizes and addresses the rights of gifted students to be provided with the direction, time, encouragement, and resources to realize their potential in order to become confident, productive adults.

3. Goal 1 • Advanced Education Services offers gifted students flexible pacing options and opportunities; including accelerated curriculum, creativity and critical thinking skills and transition planning designed to encourage individual progress.

4. Goal 2 • Advanced Education Services develops in gifted students an understanding of individual gifts and talents, which leads to: • Valuing themselves and others • Recognizing and accepting personal differences • Using positive communication • Strengthening self-efficacy and life resiliency skills

5. Goal 3 • Advanced Education Services provides gifted students a framework and forum to explore the benefits of developing leadership skills and investing in his/her community.

6. Goal 4 • Advanced Education Services Facilitators serve as consultants to teachers, providing support that focuses on the needs of gifted students.

7. Goal 5 • Advanced Education Services Facilitators collaborate with parents and community to: • To enhance the awareness of academic, social and emotional needs of gifted students • To advocate for gifted education

8. AES Impacts and Benefits • AES Facilitators • AES Students • School Community • AES Parents • LCPS Community • State

9. AES Facilitators

10. Benefits and Impact on Facilitator All facilitators are expected to: • Abide by the professional expectations for AESfacilitators • Participate in 3 professional learning committees • Participate in individual professional development • Provide service that includes direct activities and collaborative activities • Perform special education case management responsibilities

11. Professional Expectations • AES Facilitators are expected to act with character and competence. • AES facilitators are expected to make responsible choices. • AES facilitators are expected to make principled decisions based on the four critical questions: • What do you want your students to know and be able to do? • How will you know when they know it? • What will you do if they don’t know it? • What will you do if they already know it?

12. AES facilitators are expected to put relationships first. • AES facilitators are expected to communicate equally with the all parties with courage and consideration. To truly advocate for the student, the AES facilitator is expected to help negotiate a win-win. • AES facilitators are expected to listen before they react.

13. AES facilitators are expected to come to their building administrator with a win-win attitude to design a collaboration component that will not only serve gifted education but be a valuable asset to the school community • AES facilitators are expected to Live! Learn! Love! And Leave a legacy! Professional Expectations Handout

14. Professional Learning Committees • Underachievement • Identification and Assessment • Traditional • HB 36 • Discover • F-TAP • Gifted Education Pedagogy • Higher Order Thinking Skills • Differentiating the Curriculum • Talent Development through Enrichment • Brain Research Applied to Learning • Self Efficacy http://lcps.k12.nm.us/departments/sped/aes/pd/pdindex.htm

15. AES benefits me by….. • AES benefits me as a professional by allowing opportunities to work with the entire staff, development professionally, meeting with other master teachers, opportunity for diversity in project developments, and allows me to be a better problem-solver when situations arise. Erma Brooks • AES benefits me as a professional by encouraging us to constantly seek out, then apply, current research on the academic and affective needs of gifted students. We are becoming a true research-based unit collaborating with other professionals in the education field. Niki Mott

16. Students Who are Gifted benefit from AES

17. AES Direct Services • Small Groups (Pull-Out Services) • Academics/Critical Thinking (E, M, H) • Creativity (E, M) • Leadership (E, M, H) • Performance (E, M) • Self Advocacy (E, M, H) • Underachievement (M, H) • http://lcps.k12.nm.us/departments/sped/aes/curriculum • Acceleration • Individual and Small Group Advisement • Mentorship • Portfolios • Resources - http://lcps.k12.nm.us/departments/sped/aes/studentge_links.htm

18. Student Centered Activities • Convene, Develop, and implement IEPs for each AES student on caseload. • Help design/implement/evaluate accelerated programs for students. • Monitor success of educational programs. • Arrange independent/directed study classes usually at high school level. • Arrange correspondence courses/college course work. Liaison between schools when child travels for appropriate course work.

19. Arrange transportation. • Act as a liaison between parents and school. • Plan long range academic/career objectives. • Provide AES Small groups to address IEP Goals and Objective’s and AES Curriculum Strands. • Provide individual monitoring.

20. Develop student communication skills as necessary. • Develop student school survival skills: • Assist with scholarship preparation for secondary students. • Create a plan of action for the underachieving gifted child, such as; analysis of school difficulties, AES Small groups with documented parental permission at IEP meeting.

21. AES benefits students by: • Helping them discover new/different ways of thinking and solving problems, supporting their efforts to discover new ways to approach learning, providing a non-judgmental risk free environment where they can present their "different" creative thinking, encouraging them to develop a life long love of learning -- by enticing curiosity, and by collaborating with their teachers to ensure academic needs and IEP specifications are met. Begona Farwell • Showing students as many opportunities as I can find, so that they may make informed decisions on paths to choose and follow. Giving students opportunities to explore careers, post-secondary schooling options, personal interest options. Kristi Salgado

22. School Communities

23. School Centered Activities • Design and Implement, in partnership with your building principal, collaboration activities. • Work with teachers to develop goals and objectives for student and monitor for appropriate implementation. • Arrange logistics such as transportation (include transportation form). • Arrange scheduling of courses.

24. Locate materials as needed by teacher providing acceleration. • Document course work • Act as a liaison for teachers, students and parents. • Complete special education paperwork. • Conduct annual reviews. • Maintain current knowledge related to House Bill 36a.

25. AES Collaborative Activities • Enrichment • Teacher Consultation on Gifted Ed Strategies • Service Learning • Special Extra-Curricular Activities

26. Professional Development • Researching, purchasing and presenting materials to teachers to support and extend coursework • Disseminating information to staff from any presentations, workshops • Make professional literature available • Writing Staff Newsletters • Lead Group Discussion and Staff Development Meetings • Present at the Teachers Teaching Teachers Conference http://lcps.k12.nm.us/departments/sped/aes/lesson_index.htm

27. Members of • Matrix Bank Committee • Parent Involvement • Child Study Team • Discipline Committee • Birthday Committee • Spelling B Committee • Technology Committee • Site Based Management Team • Science Committee • Character Counts

28. Technology Management Team • Vertical Alignment • Underachiever Intervention Team • Reading Literacy Committee • Team Leaders Plus • Magnet Teams Committees • Renaissance Committee • Picacho Recruitment committee • AP Vertical Team • CAPS/Transition • Teachers' Center Policy Board • NEA -LC Board of Directors

29. Sponsors • Battle of the Books • Spelling Bee • Math Night • PEACE JAM • Underclassmen Academic Award’s Ceremony • TSA • Future Educators of America Club • College fair day

30. Student Council • National Honor Society • Word Masters • Laramie Project – NMSU • After School Canine Club • Career Day • Magnet Lunch Presentation

31. Chairperson for • HB 36 Advisory Committee • Section 504 • AP Coordinator • coordinator's evaluation committee • Technology Chair • Hispano Student Awards Ceremony • PREP Committee

32. Administers/Proctors • AP Exams • Disabilities Tester for ACT • Explore • PSAT • PLAN • ACT • NM Competency • Otis Lenon (Gifted Screening)

33. Judges • School Forensics Club • Science Fair • Spelling Bee • Spanish Team Competition

34. Activities for ALL Students • Provide College Prep Scholarship Training http://lcps.k12.nm.us/departments/sped/aes/College/INDEX.htm • Teach monthly critical thinking activities • Co-Teach HOTS • Tutoring • Assisting with Field Trips • Hall, Bathroom Monitoring-concession stand • Registration and Scheduling • Teach ACT Prep Class

35. AES Parents

36. Parents and Advocates of Gifted Education • PAGE'S PAST EVENTS • Dripping Springs Family Trip • Understanding Your Child’s Results in Laymen’s Terms • White Sands Missile Range Family Trip • College Application Seminar • PAGE’S UPCOMING EVENTS • March/February - Family Trip to the Bosque- Date to be Announced • April - Dr. James Webb - Date to be Announced • May - Agricultural Field Trip -Details to be Announced http://lcps.k12.nm.us/departments/sped/aes/PAGE/index.htm

37. Parent Centered Activities • Act as a liaison between school and parent. • Clarify IEP goals. • Complete interim reports, as needed. • Initiate long range and transition planning. • Provide financial aid information at the secondary level.

38. AES benefits parents by • providing a service to my student's parents by communication on IEP goals, communication about student needs and progress, communication about gifted issues in the form of articles and newsletters, serve as liaison between PAGE and parents of students I serve. Susan Grandle • providing a service to my student’s parent by writing informative newsletters, disseminating information, I make phone calls for various reasons, I counsel parents, make a library available to them, complete the IEP process, do the transition meetings, and attend the Open House where I meet parents. Erma Brooks • providing a service to my parents by being here and being available to talk, vent, discuss, brainstorm or gather information, provide a working parent library to check out books, provide current research to parents through e-mail and attachments with updates on goals and objectives. Michelle Harris

39. LCPS Community

40. Service Learning • Involved in protest to NM Legislature to prevent “cutting the arts”. • Renaissance Faire participation • PEACE JAM – Fighting Racism and Discrimination among Native Americans – Leadership Conference Opportunity - Rigoberta Menchu Tu, Nobel Laureate 1992 from Guatemala • Nursing Home Trip Service Learning Project • Food Can Drive

41. Service Learning • Reading to the Primaries • Supporting the Animal Shelter • Basic Necessities Project • Supporting Salvation Army • Laramie Project • Jardin de Los Ninos

42. AES benefits the community by • encouraging students to provide community service, teaching them how to provide service. Kristi Salgado • making parents aware of college/scholarship opportunities through our AES website. Lorraine Rocks

43. The State of New Mexico

44. AES benefits the state of NM • Piloting Mary Frasier Talent Assessment Portfolio Alternative Assessment • Piloting DISCOVER Alternative Assessment • 1 of 2 Gifted Education Websites in NM • 2 participants on the NM Gifted Task Force – Technology Spotlight • 3 participants on the NM Gifted Committee

45. F-TAP • ACHIEVEMENT • INTELLIGENCE • CRITICAL THINKING • CREATIVE THINKING • OBSERVATIONAL/PERFORMANCE

46. DISCOVER • Written-Linguistic • Logical-Mathematical • Spatial-Artistic • Spatial Analytical • Oral Linguistic

47. AES Website • http://lcps.k12.nm.us/departments/sped/aes • Aztec, Lovington, Hobbs, Gallup

48. Technology Spotlight • http://www.charm-bracelet.org/spotlight/ NM Gifted Education Committee

49. 2004 Initiatives

50. Service Initiatives • Elementary – Critical Thinking Skills Curriculum • Middle School – 7 Habits for Highly Successful Teens and Service Learning • High School – College Preparation • K-12 – Differentiating the Curriculum