Extended Learning Program Announcement

The Extended Learning Program (ELP) provides services to gifted and high ability students. Last year, changes were implemented in Kindergarten, first and second grades in an effort to provide all students with equitable opportunities to be screened for ELP services and to expand services to more diverse populations.

These changes involved ELP teachers collaborating with K, 1, 2 classroom teachers to provide several in-class lessons to all students based on higher order thinking skills. The in-class lessons continue this year on a trimester basis, followed by pull-out enrichment services with the ELP teacher. Screening and enrichment will address three areas. 

• First trimester: visual/spatial/creative thinking. 
• Second trimester: verbal and language arts skills. 
• Third trimester: analytical and math skills. 

Parents will be notified by mail or email if their child is involved in pull-out services. 

Kindergarteners and first graders will not take the Cognitive Abilities Test as some students did in past years. Rather, primary grade students will be re-evaluated each trimester for pull-out enrichment. All second graders will take the Cognitive Abilities Test later this year to provide universal screening information for future ELP services and to give instructional staff more information about students’ abilities. Second grade parents will be notified closer to the assessment time. This provides broader services to young students during their early developmental stages. 

More information is available on the ELP website: ICCSD ELP.