GATE/Honors

Program Objective

The Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) program will actively seek out, challenge, and encourage all GATE students to achieve their maximum potential both in school and community settings. The District's mission is to provide the highest qualify educational program possible utilizing the creative and efficient use of all financial and organizational resources available. (Download our Program Design Document)

*Students who are appealing placement into Honors English Language Arts and/or Social Studies in 6th Grade have another opportunity to demonstrate their writing ability on a prompt that will be given at the District Office on May 29 and June 1.  Students will read one or more brief information texts and be asked to write an opinion (persuasive) argument, based on the arguments put forth in the reading.  Below are the exemplary criteria expected of honors-level student writers.
                                                                                                                                                                                                         

Contact:
Agnes Bjelke
GATE Secretary
(818) 878-5219
FAX# 818-878-5293

5th Grade Honors Appeal Rubric

Honors Application Instructions for 5th Graders

District 5th Grade Writing Prompt

5th Grade ELA Honors Criteria

BACKGROUND 

In the spring of 2012, the Board of Education for the Las Virgenes Unified School District approved a plan to address how best to identify and serve both the gifted and high-achieving students in middle school.  These changes are being implemented over a three-year period, beginning in 2012-13. (See the chart below.)

The Board approved for the 2012-2013 school year that 7^th and 8^th grade GATE students would meet their Language Arts requirements through performance-based Honors classes. To be inclusive, these classes will also be available to any students excelling in regular classes, who are recommended by a teacher or the school’s Honors committee.

In the 2013-2014 school year, the District will open a self-contained Gifted Magnet classroom for 6^th grade only at A.E.
Wright Middle School. Although the original proposal included 6^th and 7^th grade, the GATE Committee has recommended that in the first year of the program, the self-contained classroom be limited to one grade level.

For the 2014-2015 school year, the Gifted Magnet program will extend to 6^th and 7^th grade, with 8^th grade being added in 2015-2016.

Coordinators		Resources
Bay Laurel
Chaparral			Referral Process
Lupin Hill
Round Meadow
Sumac			Forms
White Oak	Heidi Serbick & Stephanie Cahill
Willow	Kim Bauwens & Jeremy Janton
Yerba Buena	Lynn Carlson
A.C. Stelle	Kevin Kane
A.E. Wright	Bonnie Eichen		For Parents
Lindero Canyon
Agoura H.S.	Andrew Staiano
Calabasas H.S.	Robin Midiri		For Teachers
			For Students