Advanced Education Services impacts and benefits'

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Advanced Education Servicesimpacts and
benefits.

• Las Cruces Public Schools

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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Goal 4

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

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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

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AES Impacts and Benefits

• AES Facilitators
• AES Students
• School Community
• AES Parents
• LCPS Community
• State

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AES Facilitators
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Benefits and Impact on Facilitator

• All facilitators are expected to
• Abide by the professional expectations for AES
  facilitators
• 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

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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 dont know it?
• What will you do if they already know it?

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• 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.

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• 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
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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/pdin
dex.htm
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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

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Students Who are Gifted benefit from AES
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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/curricu
  lum
• Acceleration
• Individual and Small Group Advisement
• Mentorship
• Portfolios
• Resources - http//lcps.k12.nm.us/departments/sped
  /aes/studentge_links.htm

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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.

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• 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
  Objectives and AES Curriculum Strands.
• Provide individual monitoring.

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• 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.

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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

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School Communities
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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.

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• 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.

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AES Collaborative Activities

• Enrichment
• Teacher Consultation on Gifted Ed Strategies
• Service Learning
• Special Extra-Curricular Activities

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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

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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

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• 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

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Sponsors

• Battle of the Books
• Spelling Bee
• Math Night
• PEACE JAM
• Underclassmen Academic Awards Ceremony
• TSA
• Future Educators of America Club
• College fair day

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

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Chairperson for

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

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Administers/Proctors

• AP Exams
• Disabilities Tester for ACT
• Explore
• PSAT
• PLAN
• ACT
• NM Competency
• Otis Lenon (Gifted Screening)

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Judges

• School Forensics Club
• Science Fair
• Spelling Bee
• Spanish Team Competition

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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

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AES Parents
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Parents and Advocates of Gifted Education

• PAGE'S PAST EVENTS
• Dripping Springs Family Trip
• Understanding Your Childs Results in Laymens
  Terms
• White Sands Missile Range Family Trip
• College Application Seminar
• PAGES 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/in
  dex.htm

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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.

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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 students 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

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LCPS Community
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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

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Service Learning

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

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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

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The State of New Mexico
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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

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F-TAP

• ACHIEVEMENT
• INTELLIGENCE
• CRITICAL THINKING
• CREATIVE THINKING
• OBSERVATIONAL/PERFORMANCE

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DISCOVER

• Written-Linguistic
• Logical-Mathematical
• Spatial-Artistic
• Spatial Analytical
• Oral Linguistic

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AES Website

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

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Technology Spotlight

• http//www.charm-bracelet.org/spotlight/
• NM Gifted Education Committee

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2004 Initiatives
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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

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Research Initiative

• Twice Exceptional Students
• Social Emotional Needs of the Gifted