Gifted Education Services

At the elementary level, gifted students are clustered with other like-minded peers and receive pull-out services to extend and accelerate academically as well as develop social and emotional skills; differentiated instruction is embedded in the curriculum as students practice and develop their C5W skills, including critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving. The goal is to enrich and accelerate instruction to provide academic and social-emotional growth opportunities for all students.

At the secondary level, gifted resource teachers extend and enrich the curriculum for gifted students and conduct progress monitoring for students’ academic, social, and emotional needs. Gifted resource teachers collaborate with classroom teachers to provide appropriately challenging academic learning through a variety of services, including working directly with teachers, students, and families. Middle school students are clustered, as possible with intellectual, like-minded peers to facilitate and support differentiation in the classroom and independent study opportunities are available. High school students may choose to take a number of challenging college courses within specified programs of study, or may choose to take challenging courses of interest.