Advanced Academics

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Advanced Academics

• Northwest ISD

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Advanced Academics

• The Advanced Academics Department provides
  direction, leadership and support to K-12
  programs that help meet the needs of gifted and
  academically advanced students.

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Advanced Academic Programs

• Gifted and Talented Educational Services (GATES)
• Advanced Placement (AP)
• Pre Advanced Placement (Pre-AP)
• Credit by Examination for Acceleration (CBE)
• Duke University Talent Identification Program
  (TIP)
• Academic UIL
• Destination Imagination (DI)
• Academic Decathlon (Ac Dec)

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Program Description

• GATES
• Grades K-12
• The GATES program provides curriculum
  differentiation for students who perform at
  remarkably high levels of accomplishment when
  compared to others of the same age.

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GATES cont.

• Identification Process
• Student Referral - teacher, parent, counselor, or
  the student himself may refer a student
• Student is assessed in the areas of intellectual
  and specific academic abilities using both test
  scores and checklists.
• A committee of 3 people review the data and make
  academic recommendations
• (All kindergarteners and 2nd graders are
  automatically screened.)

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Advanced Placement (AP)

• High School
• AP courses are open for any student wishing to
  enroll. The AP program was created by College
  Board in 1955 to provide students with
  college-level work in high school.
• AP exams are offered during May of each year.
  Students may earn college credit for their AP
  exam scores.

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Pre Advanced Placement (Pre-AP)

• Grades 6-11
• Pre-AP courses are open for any student wishing
  to enroll.
• Pre-AP courses are academically advanced classes
  designed to challenge motivated students to
  experience rigorous content.

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Credit By Examination for Acceleration

• Grades K-12
• An exam to earn credit for an academic course for
  which the student has no prior instruction.
• (See Student Handbook p. 31 for additional
  information.)

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Duke University Talent Identification Program
(TIP)

• Grades 4, 5, and 7
• A program sponsored by Duke University that
  recognizes students who demonstrated high
  performance in TAKS.

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Academic UIL

• Grades 2-12
• Academic UIL - Extra-curricular competitions that
  provide students an opportunity to excel in
  activities beyond the classroom.

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Destination Imagination (DI)

• Grades K-12
• DI is a competitive program that helps young
  people develop skills in time management,
  teamwork, creative and critical thinking, as well
  as problem solving.

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Academic Decathlon (Ac Dec)

• High School
• Academic Decathlon is a team competition where
  students compete against other schools in 10
  categories art, economics, essay, interview,
  language and literature, mathematics, music,
  science, social studies and speech.

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Campus Contacts

• Campus Instructional Teacher (CIT)
• GT Specialist Elementary
• GT Teachers Secondary