Initial Referral and Assessment

Referral link

When a parent, teacher, or community member suspects that a student has an extraordinarily high level of intellectual or academic ability, they may refer that student to the Gifted/Talented program.

If the referring party has SameGoal access, they can start the process in SameGoal themself. If the referring party does not have access, they can work with someone from the gifted team.

1. Create a Gifted/Talented Services Referral Form.
   • Provide details about who is initiating the referral.
   • If a parent is initiating the referral, share the document with them so they may consent to their child being assessed.
   • The referring party should then add their signature and complete the Date field.
   • Complete the document.
2. If the parent did not already consent to an assessment in the referral, create a G/T Consent for Assessment.
   • Share the document with the parents so they may grant or deny their consent, add their signature, and fill out the Date field.
   • Complete the document.

Assessment link

If the parents consent to an assessment, their child may be evaluated to determine if they are eligible for the Gifted/Talented program.

1. Create a G/T Student Identification Profile.
   • Test scores that have been loaded in the system (COGAT, MAPS, SIGS) and parent and teacher surveys completed in SameGoal should pull in automatically to the Identification Matrix.
   • The Gifted/Talented committee should review this information and make a determination about whether or not the student qualifies for the program and document the decision in the Determination section.
   • At least three committee members should add their signatures.
   • Complete the document.
2. Create a G/T Identification Decline Letter.
   • Test score and eligibility information will pull in from the Identification Profile automatically.
   • Fill out the document.
   • Mark it complete.
   • Share the document with the parents.
3. If the student is eligible to receive services, a G/T Education Plan can be developed.

Meeting Mode link

If the Gifted Team would like to review several Identification Profiles at once to make eligibility determinations, they can do so using Meeting Mode.

1. Navigate to a document list page an search for the Identification Profiles you would like to review.
   • You may use the Forms filter to search for only G/T Student Identification Profiles.
   • You may filter to only show Incomplete docs.
   • You may use the date filter to search for documents from this year.
2. Select all relevant documents.
3. Click on the Meeting Mode icon in the top right.
4. Click Share Meeting Mode.
5. Give the meeting a name.
6. Optionally, select Present limited in order to hide the student name and ID when conducting the reviews in order to make an unbiased determination.
7. Add users to share the meeting with.
8. Click Send notifications & enter meeting mode.
9. When it's time to review, all participants can join the meeting and go from document to document in order to make an eligibility determination.