LISD Gifted and Talented Vision & Mission

GT Vision:

Empowering Gifted/Talented students to explore their passions and potential, embrace their abilities and unique giftedness

and thrive in the future they create.

GT Mission:

We inclusively identify, engage, build relationships and ignite a desire for learning through empowering Gifted/Talented students to explore their passions while meeting their unique social-emotional and educational needs every day.

The Gifted/Talented student will seek out challenges to:

• Promote scholarly behaviors that discover, develop and leverage capacity (Research)

• Effectively communicate and collaborate

• Foster critical thinking by manipulating abstract ideas and making deep connection

• Promote creativity and innovation

• Develop self-awareness and social consciousness

The Gifted/Talented student will:

• Become aware of his or her own unique potential and learning style in order to develop these abilities for the betterment of self and society.

• Utilize higher level thinking skills to develop intellectual curiosity in critical, creative and productive thinking.

• Understand and apply the problem-solving process in a cooperative group setting through analysis and evaluation of a real life situation.

• Develop reference skills for using multiple concepts and resources in synthesizing an advanced product.