Gifted

About Written Education Plans

Written Education Plans (often referred to as WEPs) are documents detailing the structured gifted services that will be provided to a student. All students receiving formal gifted services must be placed on a Written Education Plan. WEPs are developed and implemented by classroom teachers.

Each Written Education Plan will contain the following information:

• Student demographic data
• Area(s) and date(s) of identification
• Student interests and preferred learning styles (if available at time of development)
• Present levels of academic and social/emotional functioning
• Academic goals
  • Goals must be aligned to area(s) of identification
  • Students identified as gifted in Superior Cognitive Ability may receive service in any academic subject area
  • Students identified as gifted in Creative Thinking Ability may receive service in any academic subject area where his or her academic performance is above average

Each fall when Written Education Plans are revised/developed, parents will receive a copy of the plan. Parents should review this plan and sign the signature page before returning the plan to the school.

Within the signature page, parents have the option to decline gifted services in any or all areas of identification. If service is declined, the student will remain identified as gifted, and may re-enroll in gifted services, if desired.

Progress Reports

Parents will receive reports on their children's Written Education Plan goal progress twice each year:

• At the end of the second nine weeks
• At the end of the school year

These progress reports will list the goals developed for the student and provide a brief description of the student's progress toward the goal. If the student has met his or her goal by the end of the 2nd nine weeks, the teacher may revise the Written Education Plan to develop a more appropriate goal. If a student fails to meet his or her goals by the end of the school year, this will provide information for the next year's teacher to develop appropriately challenging goals that are not unattainable.

 

About Written Acceleration Plans 

Written Acceleration Plans (often referred to as WAPs) are documents detailing the structured gifted services that will be provided to a student who is grade level accelerated or subject accelerated.  A single subject acceleration is designed for students whose ability is highly advanced in a particular area of study, most commonly, mathematics. A student who is identified as grade level or subject accelerated will receive a Written Acceleration Plan only once and will not receive this documentation after the initial. 

Each WAP will include information about the initial placement and the accelerated placement (including the teachers from each placement), the duration of the transition period, and the personnel responsible for monitoring the success of the acceleration (typically a classroom teacher and building principal).