A core belief of the Neenah Gifted & Talented Program is that all students should be provided an appropriate and challenging learning environment. We support maximum potential and a passion for excellence for all students.

Gifted students have special needs and abilities. Gifted programs will provide identified students with opportunities beyond the regular curriculum to broaden their knowledge, skills, and experiences. Emphasis will be on developing, independent, self-directed learners by encouraging and supporting in-depth learning and divergent and creative thinking. Gifted students will be expected to and will be given opportunities to perform well beyond what would be expected of a child of similar age and experience.

Children who are academically talented have unique abilities, which can create challenges for them in a regular classroom. They tend to learn at a more rapid pace, and possess a depth of thinking which may cause them to be “out of sync” with their peers.

The regular curriculum is differentiated by modifying content, process, product, and environment; by meeting advanced skills' needs,especially in the area of research, and by nurturing the abstract thinking abilities of these students. A combination of the strategies of differentiation, enrichment, and acceleration are used in designing appropriate programs.

Helping students learn and grow is a goal of every school. Implicit in that goal is an understanding of how to work with special populations of children. Gifted and talented education encompasses the expertise needed to properly identify and serve not only the students who demonstrate high achievement, but also those who have the ability to achieve at high levels.

Neenah student's needs can be met by providing a differentiated,enriched academic environment for students with advanced learning abilities that uses instructional methods to develop thinking processes that enhance independent study and personal effectiveness.

In the Neenah School District, we offer two different programs to meet the needs of our gifted students. We have a 4th-6th-grade Magnet Program housed at Horace Mann Middle School. The Magnet Program was designed to address students with high intellectual needs (students will high intellectual quotients "IQ"). While the home-based Gifted &Talented Program was designed to address the needs of high achieving students in specific areas of need.

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