1. Back To School Night Talented and Gifted Presentation Lafayette Elementary September 1, 2016
Julie Marquez, TAG Coordinator
Melinda Karshner, TAG Teacher
Cindy Olsen, TAG Advisor

2. TAG Personnel
Julie Marquez – Dean of Students, Talented and Gifted coordinator
Melinda Karshner – Talented and Gifted Teacher
Cindy Olsen – Talented and Gifted Educational Advisor

3. Julie Marquez Full-time Dean of Students Focus on supervision of ALPs
Focus on facilitating the TAG Meetings
Overview of student data
Tag Budget
Professional Development

4. Melinda Karshner
Teacher - 6th Grade Math to 4th and 5th grade students
Teacher – 5th Grade Wheel
Teacher – 3rd Grade Challenge Math
Teacher – 2nd Grade Challenge Math
Teacher – 1st Grade Challenge Math
Helps develop ALPs
TAG Committee Member

5. Cindy Olsen Kindergarten – Enrichment for Math
Test assessor for the CogAt, Cognitive Abilities Test & Naglieri
Creator of ALPs on Enrich
Parent listserv
Clerical work with TAG data
Tag Committee member

6. Nominations
Students can be nominated at any time during their educational career at Lafayette Elementary
Any one can nominate a student for TAG Assessment
Tag Committee meets monthly to discuss recent nominees
Parents are notified after a determination has been made

7. Advanced Learning Plans
Once a student has been identified as TAG, an Advanced Learning Plan is developed for the school year.
Parents are given an opportunity to provide input for the various goals placed on the ALP
Teachers will also provide input throughout the development of the ALP.
Most students will have 3 goals
Academic Goal - focusses on the student’s strengths
Affective Goal – focusses on the appropriate social/emotional development
Production Goal – focusses on opportunities for the student’s work to be seen by an authentic audience

8. Sample Goals Academic goal sample
Math – the student will participate in a challenge math group that will spiral through the grade level content and extend into next years content. The student will perform at a high proficient or advanced on their grade level assessment and off grade level assessments.
Affective Goal
The student will share with small group ideas and conflict resolution strategies surrounding interactions with friends on the playground.
Class meetings, bibliotherapy

9. Conferences
Conferences are in October this school year. This is a great opportunity to set goals for your child with their classroom teachers.
Please contact the TAG office if you would like to have a separate conference.

10. Activities
Hundreds of children will be eager to participate in various after school activities.
After School Clubs (just to name a few)
Destination Imagination All Grades (Team managers needed)
Choir (Intermediate)
TEAMS (Intermediate)
Chess
Oratory Club/Shakespeare 5th Grade
Robotics
Cooking Class – Third Grade
Before School Clubs
Jump Rope Club

11. Parent Classes SENG - Cindy Olsen, facilitator
More information to come via s and website
BVGT – We are looking for a school representative for BVGT. Please contact Cindy Olsen if you are interested. Check the BVGT website for more details.

12. Communication
Mrs. Karshner has created a website for students that are with her for math classes this year. TagMath.weebly.com Other communication will be provided through . This includes listserv information as well as individual communication.

13. TAG link
Please feel free to look through the TAG link on Lafayette Elementary’s website for more information.
This page will continue to be updated through out the year with various events and club notifications.

14. Contact Information
Julie Marquez
Melinda Karshner
Cindy Olsen

15. General Questions