Advanced Academics Updates
For Klein ISD Instructional Leaders
AUGUST 11, 2020
Welcome New Program Coordinators!
Belinda Bryan, Ed.D
My name is Belinda Bryan and I have served an educator for ten years. I have always brought abundant energy, creativity, dedication, experience, and personal knowledge to my work. My work specializes in working with diverse learners and collaborating with other educators to find innovative and sustainable methods to transform teaching and learning. My expertise includes designing innovative learning experiences, differentiated curriculum, professional learning, online/blending learning, and parent engagement. During my professional journey, I was a teacher, response to intervention coordinator, 504 Coordinator, school counselor, and served in a district-level leadership position as a gifted and talented specialist. I am honored to join the Klein ISD Advanced Academics Team to support scholars with high academic ability.
Chelle Salazar, M.Ed
Background: Chelle Cotton Salazar has served in Klein ISD since 2010 as an English/Language Arts, Social Studies and GT/Advanced Academics teacher for grades 4-12, and as a College and Career Advisor. Prior to becoming an educator, Chelle worked in Business Administration, Marketing and Event Coordination in a variety of industries.
Chelle is a relationship-driven educator who strives to serve the stakeholders of Klein ISD through a passion for learning and innovative leadership. “I am so honored to join the incredible Klein ISD Advanced Academics team as a Program Coordinator! The shared P2P vision of our district encompasses all the important qualities and values that learners, leaders and educators should have at the core of their objectives. These same values are also at the root of our Advanced Academics program which provides a great opportunity for synergy and growth across all the educational pathways that our phenomenal district offers. I look forward to serving the Klein district and community in this new role by facilitating growth, improvement and innovation through the heart and mind of a forever learner.”
Advanced Academics: Who to Contact for Help!
2020-21 Advanced Academic Stipends
Please indicate your Decathlon/Octathlon Coaches HERE
There will only be one stipend for Decathlon Coach and one for Octathlon Coach.
There will not be a stipend for Assistant Decathlon Coach.
Please contact Kathleen Plott (kplott@kleinisd.net) with questions.
ADVANCED PLACEMENT INFORMATION
FOR HS INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERS
AP REGISTRATION AND ORDERING
AP Registration and Ordering
- On August 1, the AP Coordinator and Principal at your schools should have received their APRO access code for this school year.
- For 2020-2021, CollegeBoard will not be charging any UNUSED/CANCELLED exam fees for students who decide not to take their AP exams.
- The late-order and late-testing fees aren’t changing. Those amounts remain $40 per exam. CollegeBoard will make an exception for homeschooled students. See page 8 of the AP Coordinator Manual for more information about that.
- CollegeBoard STRONGLY recommends that your schools leave APRO’s exam decision indicator on the default setting, which will indicate order exam as YES for each student enrolled in an AP section. See pages 61-64 of the AP Coordinator Manual for more details about the Exam Decision Indicator Settings.
2020-21 GT TEACHER REFERRALS
Please share with your teaching teams!
If you had a student this year who demonstrated the use of creative and advanced vocabulary, critical thinking and problem-solving skills, unique illustrations or perspectives within the content, or showed rapid retention and application of content, please consider recommending them for Gifted/Talented assessment. We want to hear from teachers about the students who would be great candidates for Klein ISD’s GT program. Refer them using this form.
The Advanced Academics team will reach out to the parents in the fall to request permission to test based on your recommendations.
Thank you for helping us to make the most appropriate placements for students in our Klein family!
2020-21 G/T IDENTIFICATION ASSESSMENT CALENDAR
NEW! Pre-AP Framework
Klein ISD Pre-AP Course Description
Students in Klein ISD advanced courses (PreAP) are expected to research, synthesize, and create solutions and/or products to promote advanced/accelerated growth and ultimately demonstrate post-secondary readiness through the practice of interdisciplinary study, literary analysis, communication, collaboration, goal setting, and self-reflection.
Created by the Advanced Academics Architectural Design Team
What is Required in the Texas State Plan for the Education of Gifted/Talented Students?
The State Plan forms the basis of gifted/talented standards of services and divides them into the categories of accountability and exemplary. The plan offers an outline for services. Districts are accountable for services as described in the State Plan where performance measures are included for six aspects of G/T service design: Fidelity of Services, Student Assessment, Service Design, Curriculum and Instruction, Professional Learning, and Family/Community Involvement.
The accountability standards reflect actions required in state law and/or SBOE rule.