• Superintendent Colonna's Goals
• TAG Project Team Overview
• Oregon Administrative Rules for TAG
• BSD School Board Policies and Administrative Regulations
• Beaverton School District Review of Current Policy
• NAGC Definitions and History of Gifted Education

• Do you see any conflicts in the District's commitment to all kids versus TAG kids?
• Mark any sections that are unclear or questions that arise.
• Mark any sections with which you particularly agree or have a difficult time.
• Are there any questions you feel we need the Board to answer before we begin our work?

• Read: Sort the Wheat from the Chaff: What Makes for Good evidence of Effectiveness in the Literature in Gifted Education?

Select a piece of research on a topic of interest and use this guide to evaluate the quality.

Suggested sites for research on gifted education:

• www.nagc.org
• www.gifted.uconn.edu/NRCGT
• www.davidsoninstitute.org
• www.hoagiesgifted.org

• NAGC Standards
• BSD TAG Documents

Project Team Work Schedule 2008-09

Project Team Questions for the School Board

PT Comments from Readings

Responses to Questions Raised by the Project Team

Sorting the Wheat from the Chaff Organizer

A Primer of Educational Research

Meeting Topic: Overview: What should be? Research and Best Practices

Clicker Activity - Project Members were asked to provide a "gut reaction" to provocative statements regarding gifted education.

In small groups, Project Team members shared the research articles they reviewed for homework. After members posted their findings, the larger group spent time looking over each other's research findings.

Project Team members were asked to rank the NAGC Standards in order of importance.

Homework: Please read the following books before our January 26 meeting.

• Detracking for Excellence and Equity - Burris & Garrity - ASCD
• Re-Forming Gifted Education - Karen Rogers - Great Potential Press

For each book, list five statements you believe are essential ideas for our work in re-designing the BSD TAG Program.

Clicker Activity Responses

Research articles read and reviewed by Project Team Members

Rankings from NAGC Standards

• Team members completed the Text Protocol to reflect on the two books read for homework.

• Project Team members generated five notecards per book that listed five statements they believe are essential ideas for the work in re-designing the BSD TAG Program. The cards were then sorted into the seven categories from the NAGC standards.

• Homework: Read the following scenarios . Describe the minimum service the District should provide, as well as exemplary practices to which we aspire.
  

• Review of Readings: Text Protocol
• Notecard Shuffle

• TAG 101 - TAG Specialists reviewed the TAG Law, including: Identification, Parent Rights, and Program Services.

• Project Team Members reviewed and revised the guiding principles based on comments made by TAG facilitators.
  

• Homework: Analyze second set of student scenarios . Address the issues presented, including the minimum service provided by the BSD as well as the exemplary practice that we should strive to achieve.
  

TAG 101: Additional Questions

• Scenarios: Table Groups discussed each of the six scenarios and presented the minimum standard of practice and recommendation for exemplary practice.

• Preparation for Community Table Talks

• Homework: Review Table Talk protocol questions and recruit community members to attend Table Talks

• Twice-Exceptional Student
• Profoundly Gifted Math Student
• Underrepresented Student
• Freshman TAG Student: Options for Services
• IB/AP Courses for Secondary Students: Comprehensive Services?
• Two Way Immersion and TAG
  

Community Table Talks

6:30-8:30PM

Aloha High School
(daycare and interpreters provided at AHS only)
Westview High School
Meadow Park Middle School
Beaverton High School

Protocols:

Protocol #1

Protocol #2

Draft Position Paper

Individual Response Sheet

• Process Table Talk input; receive and review Part 1 of the Program Evaluation

• Homework: Analyze third set of student scenarios . Address the issues presented, including the minimum service provided by the BSD as well as the exemplary practice that we should strive to achieve.

TAG Research Panel
Westview High School
6:30-8:00
Auditiorium
Daycare Provided
Please contact Susan Ouellette to reserve a space for your child.

503.591.4431

Carol Tomlinson's taped responses to the panel questions

Full Research Panel Video

• Process TAG Research Panel; Review Scenarios

• Parent Survey Results

Scenario Responses:

• Intellectual Gifted Student
• Highly Gifted Student
• Social-Emotional Issues: Perfectionism
  

• TAG Project Team approved Philosophy/Position Paper
• Individual and Group Work on 5-Year Plan Review
  

Program Evaluation Parts 1 & 2

See Final Report below for Philosophy/Position Paper

• Clicker Activity: Began 5-Year Plan Approval Process
  

• 5-Year Plan Approval Process Continuation
  

• Finalization/Approval of 5-Year Plan
• TAG Advisory Issues & Questions to Address
• Advisory Applications
• Time-line Prioritization
  

Final TAG Project Team Report includes:

• 5-Year Plan
• Phil/Pos Paper
• TAG Advisory Issues & Questions
• Prioritization List