Kent School District’s Highly Capable Program
Your School
Date
2014-15 Highly Capable Program Services
Growing talent and minds
from Kindergarten to college
and career
Definition of Highly Capable Students
• Students who perform or show potential for
performing at significantly advanced academic levels
compared with others of their age, experiences, or
environments
• Outstanding abilities are seen within students'
general intellectual aptitudes, specific academic
abilities, and/or creative productivities within a
specific domain
(WACS)
Definition of Learning Characteristics
1. Capacity to learn with unusual depth of understanding, to
retain what has been learned, and to transfer learning to
new situations.
2. Capacity and willingness to deal with increasing levels of
abstraction and complexity earlier than their chronological
peers.
3. Creative ability to make unusual connections among ideas
and concepts.
4. Ability to learn quickly in their area(s) of intellectual
strength.
5. Capacity for intense concentration and/or focus.
What is ACE?
The Accelerated and Clustered
Enrichment Program is designed to:
• Provide rigorous, differentiated instruction
• Support social-emotional development
• Build on strengths
How are students serviced in ACE?
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Content
Process
Product
Learning environment
Assessment
Literacy Program
Compact and accelerate the grade level standards
through adding depth, complexity, and creativity.
Resources:
• Common Core English Language Arts Standards
• Short stories, poetry, and nonfiction reading
comprehension through Jacob’s Ladder
• Junior Great Books
• Wordly Wise
• Vocabulary for the Classical Roots
• Thinking Skills within the Common Core
Mathematics Program
• Common Core Mathematics standards
• Compacting and accelerating the grade level
standards through adding depth and complexity.
Outside
Opportunities
University of
Washington
Robinson
Center for
Young
Scholars
Summer Challenge
• Fast-paced, challenging courses in
3-5 week blocks
• Students explore issues and solve
problems through interactive,
hands-on activities
Enrichment Programs
• Saturday courses throughout the
school year
• Students are provided a dynamic,
challenging, and inspirational
learning experience in math or
writing
UW Robinson Center
Outside
Opportunities
John Hopkins
Talent Search
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The Johns Hopkins University
Center for Talented Youth (CTY), a
world leader in gifted education,
seeks high performing students for
enrollment in special programs
throughout the country.
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High performing students take a
test designed for older students
which can reveal more about the
student’s talents and abilities
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Tests are held in late fall/early
winter and dates and fees can be
found on website
John Hopkin’s Center for Talented Youth
Resources
National Association for Gifted
Children
Hoagies Gifted
Washington Association of
Educators of Talented and Gifted
William and Mary Center for Gifted
Education
Kent School District Hicap website
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