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P-CCS TAG Program - Frequently Asked Questions

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What is the TAG Program?  
The P-CCS Talented and Gifted Program focuses on meeting the academic, emotional and social needs of our advanced learners.  We are committed to helping our students achieve their greatest potential by providing engaging, appropriately challenging curriculum and instruction.  The TAG Program provides acceleration in some areas while teaching grade level curricula in others.  The program emphases higher-order thinking, deep knowledge, substantive conversations and making connections to the world beyond the classroom.  TAG students are provided with a qualitatively different school experience, which results from the gifted students' interactions with each other in an engaging classroom.  
 
How is the TAG classroom different from a same-grade classroom at the home school?
This is a difficult question to answer because there are many fine classrooms in our district with teachers that care about and work hard to provide the right challenge for each student. In many ways, the TAG classroom is the same. Children work, play and socialize within four walls. There are celebrations, specials classes such as art and music and recesses. Students break rules and make new friends like all other kids. TAG children are also achieving at different levels and have diverse learning styles and needs, even though they all have performed at top levels on standardized tests. For some academically gifted students, the TAG Program may be the first time they encounter peers who share similar interests, their love of learning and motivation for high-level academic work. The pace and depth of lessons in the TAG classroom often requires students to improve their time management and organizational skills.
 
How are students transported to the center-based TAG Program?
The transportation department has dedicated twelve buses to transport Elementary TAG students to and from school.  The district map is sectioned off into twelve quadrants and TAG students are assigned a bus route number with times for pick-up and drop-off.  This information is entered into each student's profile on MIStar and can be viewed by parents when logging in with their assigned user name and password. 

Middle School TAG students pick up a bus in their neighborhood and are transported to their home middle school where they will board another bus to transport them to East Middle School.  Likewise, students will be transported back to their home school to board a bus back to their neighborhood each afternoon.  Currently, the district is looking at other options for more efficient middle school transportation for the next school year.

Where and when can I nominate my student?

All nominations for the TAG program are completed online and must be completed during the specific nomination window announced and posted on the P-CCS district website each year.  Please refer to the TAG QUALIFICATION page for more information.

Do students attending a P-CCS school need to be nominated?  No.  All 2nd through 7th grade P-CCS students will be assessed on the NWEA MAP Growth in the Fall and Winter terms.  Students that earn a qualifying score on the NWEA will be notified via email.  Please refer to the TAG QUALIFICATION page for more information.

  

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