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Highly Capable first meeting

Highly Capable Committee meets for first time to begin study

This week, Assistant Superintendent Chris Gardea conducted the first meeting of 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, Assistant Superintendent and the Superintendent.  The committee is tasked with providing a 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 group will review the history of the Highly Capable Program in WWPS and study applicable state and federal laws, requirements, and mandates associated with highly capable programs. They will also review the current model being offered in Walla Walla Public Schools and reflect on outcomes, findings, and recommendations from the 2015-16 outside consultant and committee work. The committee’s recommendation must be financially sustainable and programmatically feasible, be research-based to best support the needs of highly capable students and provide a scaffold program, supporting kindergarten through grade 12 alignment. Visit the Highly Capable/Explorer program page on the district website for updates and reports from the committee’s work.

For questions, contact Assistant Superintendent Chris Gardea at 509.526-6712 or via email at cgardea@wwps.org.

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