Our teachers create learning opportunities which allow students to flourish in stimulating academic and social environments. Gifted education seeks to develop the whole child to maximum potential, academically and socially, while fostering an intrinsic motivation to be an independent thinker and life-long learner. In designing challenging educational opportunities, we strive to raise the floor, remove the walls and eliminate the ceiling on learning.

• Focus on student strengths and interests

• More complex understandings of generalizations, principles, theories, and the structure of the content area

• Abstract concepts and thought processes or skills

• Level and type of resources used to obtain information, acquire skills, and develop products

• Appropriation of longer/shorter time span for learning

• Generating new information and/or products

• Transfer of learning to new/different disciplines, situations

• Development of personal growth and sophistication in attitudes, appreciations, feelings, intuition

• Independence of thought and study

• Variety in content, process of information acquisition, and assessment