Acceleration & Enhanced Opportunities
ACCELERATION GUIDELINES
North Carolina and NHCS give administrators the right to grade and place students. The NHCS AIG program adopted the Iowa Acceleration Scale and created a Subject Acceleration Checklist to assist schools in acceleration decisions. It is encouraged that schools utilize the school based Match Team to help make acceleration decisions.
Whole Grade Acceleration and subject acceleration are options used in grades K-12. In NHCS the Iowa Acceleration Scale is used to guide decisions about whole grade and subject acceleration. This research-based scale considers a child's ability, aptitude, achievement, interpersonal and intrapersonal skills, social and emotional needs, and a number of other factors for schools to use in guiding acceleration decisions.
To provide rigor in schools, NHCS offers Advanced Placement (AP) courses, delivered either through face-to-face instruction or via NC Virtual Public School and International Baccalaureate courses (IB), including the IB Diploma Programme.
Career & College Promise (CCP) is North Carolina’s dual enrollment program for high school students. This program allows eligible NC high school students to enroll in college classes at North Carolina community colleges and universities through their high school. Students who successfully complete college courses earn college credit they can take with them after graduation. In many cases, students can also earn dual credit — meeting high school graduation requirements with college courses.
Credit by Demonstrated Mastery (CDM) is the process by which a student may earn credit for a high school course by demonstrating a deep understanding of the content; without course enrollment or seat time. CDM was designed to respond to the needs of students, families, AIG community, school personnel and leadership.
CDM specifically offers North Carolina students the opportunity to personalize and accelerate their learning, thus allowing for optimal student growth while providing an opportunity to have effective seat time to learn new content.
The Governor's School of North Carolina is a 5½-week summer residential program for gifted and talented high school students, integrating academic disciplines, the arts, and unique courses on each of two campuses. The curriculum focuses on the exploration of the most recent ideas and concepts in each discipline, and it does not involve credit, tests, or grades. Students are selected to attend through a competitive process after being nominated by their public school unit or non-public school.