Highly Capable Committee

District forms committee to provide recommendations for Highly Capable Program
Assistant Superintendent Chris Gardea is leading the School Board directed “Highly Capable Program Recommendation Committee” (HCC). This group is comprised of parents, teachers, principals, a School Board Member (non-voting), the Executive Director for Teaching and Learning, and the Superintendent. Applications to serve on the committee are on the District webpage – Highly Capable/Explorer Program — http://www.wwps.org/programs/explorers

Committee Charge:
Walla Walla Public School’s Board of Directors requests the HCC to complete the work necessary to provide Kindergarten through twelfth grade program recommendation to the Board of Directors on May 2, 2017, to be considered for implementation beginning the 2017-18 school year. The Committee is tasked with the following charge:
· Review the history of the Highly Capable Program in WWPS
· Review applicable state and federal laws, requirements, and mandates associated with highly capable programs
· Review the current model being offered in Walla Walla Public Schools
· Review the outcomes, findings, and recommendations from the 2015-16 outside consultant and committee work
· Perform additional study and research as may be required
· Provide multiple opportunities for parent, stakeholder, and staff input to inform program recommendation

The Board of Directors charges the committee to use the following criteria in developing its recommendation. The committee’s recommendation:
Must,
· be financially sustainable and programmatically feasible
· be research-based to best support the needs of highly capable students
· provide a scaffold program, supporting KG-12th grade alignment