GATE
GATE Program
🌟BUSD GATE Vision Statement
To provide a comprehensive high-quality program that meets the intellectual, academic, and social/emotional needs of all intellectually gifted students in the Burbank Unified School District.
BUSD GATE Mission Statement 🌟
It is the mission of the Burbank Unified School District’s Gifted and Talented Education Program, in partnership with parents, the community, and staff, to provide a high-quality educational program for gifted students in order to develop their knowledge, skills, abilities, and values. The district’s GATE program currently serves one category of gifted students: Intellectually Gifted - students with high potential in the areas of abstract thinking and reasoning ability as applied to school learning situations.
Students are identified for our GATE program via BUSD's GATE Identification Process. Once identified, students are placed into cohorts with other GATE-identified students in 4th and 5th grade along with other same-aged peers.
🏫The core of our GATE program is based on classroom instruction. Teachers differentiate for gifted learners by exploring depth of content knowledge, complexity and inter-relation of relevant topics, and, when appropriate, acceleration and pacing of lessons.
⭐In BUSD students are screened in third grade and may be identified as gifted by their performance on the CogAt. The Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) is a multiple-choice K-12 assessment that measures reasoning skills with different types of verbal, quantitative, and nonverbal questions. In 4th and 5th grades, students can be nominated to take the CogAT again by a parent or teacher who fills out the HOPE nomination form.
In BUSD, parents of GATE students have the opportunity to participate and learn more about giftedness, and our district program, by participating in the District GATE Advisory Committee's monthly meetings. To find out when the next meeting is going to be happening, click this link to the GATE E-Newsletter site. GATE E-Newsletter
If you have any questions regarding the GATE program at Bret Harte, please contact Briahna Walker, Curriculum Specialist, at 818-729-1250 or by email: BriahnaWalker@burbankusd.org
🗓️Our 2024-2025 GATE Orientation, for families new to the BUSD GATE Program, will be held on Thursday, August 29 at 6:00PM in the Bret Harte Library.
For more information on GATE programs, please click here to be directed to the District GATE page.
📝CogAT Practice Questions:
Quantitative Practice Questions