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Revere Local moves to digitize gifted plans, to pilot NNAT3 for identification
Summary
District staff told the Revere Local Board of Education on Oct. 21 that written education plans for identified gifted students will be digitized, teachers will receive targeted professional development, and the district will pilot the NNAT3 nonverbal assessment this school year to align with new state operating standards.
Revere Local Schools officials said at the board’s Oct. 21 meeting that the district will digitize written education plans for gifted students, expand teacher training, and pilot the Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test (NNAT3) instead of the CogAT for identification this year.
The changes are intended to align district practice with new state gifted operating standards that took effect July 1 and to increase student and parent involvement in goal-setting, Amy Harker, the district’s new gifted coordinator, told the board.
Harker said the district will move WEPs (written education plans) and written acceleration plans into an electronic platform to let students, teachers and parents collaborate and sign documents online. “Being able to put it on SaneGO . . . allows input from all the stakeholders and it allows parents to have a copy at all times because it's electronically available and they will sign it electronically as well,”…
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