Please invite your colleagues who work with HiCap student data to join us for this Office Hour. The HiCap bill from the last legislative session called for district-level student data to be disaggregated and available to the public. Kelsey Osborne, Senior Data Analyst at OSPI, will be on this virtual meeting to share the recently-posted November 2023 HiCap student data and answer questions from the fields.
Virtual Office Hour is an open meeting/forum for educators working with K–12 HiCap students to discuss issues and hear from colleagues in other districts. This is an opportunity for HiCap coordinators, teachers, and administrators to share ideas, and connect for tips and answers from others doing this work.
Office Hours Details:
Thursday, January 11th | 3:30–4:30 pm | Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3607256171
No registration is required to join HiCap Office Hours. Just copy and save this Zoom link in your calendar.
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As announced earlier, EDS iGrants will no longer house the HiCap District Plan Form Package (FP) 217 and HiCap End of Year Report FP 250. In September 2023, District HiCap contacts received by email a survey Assurances Page to complete and return. When the survey is submitted, your HiCap apportionment for the 2023–24 school year begins. If you have not completed the survey, please email highlycapable@k12.wa.us with “Apportionment” as the subject line. We will reply to your email with the survey.
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Please join our Office Hour meetings to review the new reporting tool for Highly Capable required reporting. During this meeting you will hear from Samantha Kaiser, Data Consultant for Federal and State Programs. Bring your questions to discuss the functionality of the new platform.
Office Hours Details:
Tuesday, January 16 | 3:30–4:30 pm | Join via Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3607256171
Tuesday, January 23 | 9–10 am | Join via Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3607256171
No registration is required to join HiCap Office Hours. Just copy and save this Zoom link in your calendar.
Building a Wider, More Diverse Pipeline of Advanced Learners
Start a Girls Who Code Club
Looking to incorporate STEM into your programs this summer or next school year? You’re in luck! Girls Who Code designed the perfect coding curriculum so you don’t have to – all 100% for free, refreshed every year, and open to all genders in their girls-supportive environment.
This year, when you start a free Girls Who Code Club and enroll 3 or more members, you’ll be eligible to receive up to $300 to purchase materials and supplies for your Club. There’s no obligation and every Club gets access to 120+ hours of plug-and-play programming with CSTA standards-aligned coding lessons.
Indicate you’re part of Washington OSPI on the Clubs application, and you’ll unlock additional support, access to special events, and exclusive opportunities for swag. No coding experience required.
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Please click on the image below to read Student Stories published by OSPI.
Get a Head Start on Applications for College and Financial Aid
Please use this link to access resources regarding Financial Aid: https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/WAWSAC/bulletins/37eb277
Got questions? Ask OSPI!
OSPI has launched a new publication that invites all Washington residents to ask OSPI questions directly and get answers publicly. Called The Study Session, this publication is an opportunity for families and community members to engage with OSPI on all things public education. It is published once per month on the OSPI Blog. Click to learn more about The Study Session, including how to submit questions.
Universal Design for Learning: Transform Your Teaching
Training Details:
Training Description:
In this hybrid series, we will look at the conditions for shifting our educator mindsets to UDL, how we can prepare ourselves to create inclusive learning opportunities for all students in our class, and we will share tools to help us plan intentionally to “teach to the edges” using practical design approaches and UDL-aligned strategies. Participants will have the opportunity to choose to learn about one or more approaches to lesson planning (Plus 1, Troubleshooting, and/or Journey mapping). After self-selecting a preferred approach, we’ll try our hands at applying the approaches through the UDL guidelines, checkpoints, strategies, and reflection processes. We’ll close the series with a celebration and sharing of our work together.
LEGOs and Metaphorical Thinking
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Training Description:
Metaphorical thinking, rich in emotions and imagery allows us to understand and explain complex and abstract concepts by relating them to familiar models. With metaphors, we build lateral thinking skills, see from new perspectives, and innovate creative solutions. This 3-hour in-person session uses creative play and activities designed to engage students in thoughtful discussions, design thinking, and make student thinking visible.
The National Association for Gifted Children is coming to the West Coast for the first time in over 30 years! Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from internationally known speakers and fellow educators of advanced learners.
NAGC24, the NAGC Annual Convention, is the largest event devoted to gifted and talented children for classroom teachers, gifted/talented coordinators, school administrators, researchers, parents, college and university faculty, and others interested in the education of high-ability and high-potential learners. The NAGC Convention Committee is accepting proposals through January 26, 2024, for sessions to be shared at the in-person event, to be held November 21-24 in Seattle, WA. Proposals can be submitted here: https://nagc.org/general/custom.asp?page=NAGC24CFP
 University of Connecticut Professional Learning Resources
The University of Connecticut offers free video presentations of professional learning for anyone to use. Have you thought about viewing them together with other teachers and then discussing how to apply new learning to your own teaching? Districts can offer clock hours for educators who participate in high-quality, structured, professional learning about the nature and needs of advanced learners.
Whitworth University Seminar
Whitworth University welcomes leading national experts as they discuss “Identification for What? Aligning Services and Assessments for HiCap Learners” in this year’s annual spring webinar series. Webinars are held each Tuesday in February from 4:30 pm –6 pm. For more information and to register, please visit the Whitworth University website.
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