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Interested in the Nobel Creativity Program at KHS?

Parents, guardians and students interested in the Nobel Program at Kennedy High School are invited to attend an information session at KHS on  Tuesday, February 4th at 7pm in Kennedy Media Center (9701 Nicollet Ave in Bloomington).  
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Nobel is an honors humanities pathway designed to nurture and develop the creativity of high school students and is housed at John F. Kennedy High School in Bloomington, MN.  Students who have been identified as creatively talented are grouped together in a cohort for key humanities classes and for their advisory where they work with teachers who have been trained to grow creativity.  Focusing on critical thinking and creativity, students will engage in a rich curriculum connecting literature, social sciences, philosophy and the arts.  
Students are identified using the Torrance Test of Creativity and through their MAP reading test scores.  Students that graduate from the Valley View Middle School (VVMS) Nobel program will automatically be placed in the KHS cohort.  However, it is not a requirement that a student have attended VVMS or even Bloomington Public Schools to be placed in the Nobel cohort.  
Current 8th graders who are in the Kennedy attendance area and who have an 85% or higher on their MAP reading test are eligible to take the Torrance Test of Creativity (TTCT) to be considered for the cohort.  Students will be invited to join the cohort at KHS based on their TTCT test scores. If you are interested in having your student tested contact Meredith Aby-Keirstead, a BPS gifted and talented coordinator, at maby@isd271.org or at 952-806-7811.  
Students who are attending Hubert Olson Middle School, current KHS students, and out of district students are also able to apply for the Nobel cohort  by emailing maby@isd271.org or calling Aby at 952-806-7811.  

Currently, in order to participate in the program one must attend Kennedy High School. There is not a Nobel program at Jefferson High School at this time.  
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