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Gifted and/or Highly Achieving Students
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Emerging Recommendations

R ecommendation #1:
Adopt and widely communicate the specific areas of alignment and focus between the characteristics of gifted and/or
highly achieving students and the existing PRSD vision to internal and external stakeholders.

FINDINGS:
Internal Analysis

1. Gifted and/or highly achieving programming currently does not have a vision and philosophy that is clearly
communicated to staff, students, and community (PRSD Gifted and/or Highly Achieving Program Review Team,
2019).

2. A clear vision statement serves as a reference that anchors the focus of the program with a clear picture of the
future (PRSD Gifted and/or Highly Achieving Program Review Team, 2019).

External Analysis
1. Gifted is an experience, not a place (State College Area SD, 2019).
2. Resources for learning outside of the classroom are provided to all parents and students are all invited to take part
in competitions at the homeroom and school level and those performing the best move on to the regional
competitions (Quaker Valley SD, 2019).
3. Gifted learners are creative by nature and creativity needs to be developed and encouraged by relating to
‘real-world’ application - convention, publication, product (University of Connecticut Renzulli Learning Center,
2019).

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