The Northshore School District Highly Capable Program is founded upon four guiding principles:
Whole child focus. Support for academic, creative, and social-emotional development fostering a growth mindset.
Not more work, different work. Developing innovative, creative, and critical thinkers through access to advanced learning standards with appropriate depth and rigor.
Not a one size fits all. Highly Capable qualified students have diverse needs and unique challenges, in addition to high cognitive capability and/or academic achievement. Often this requires the collaboration of teams across programs to meet the needs of individual learners.
Equity. Equitable access to HiCap services for all students who qualify. Ability and talent are equally distributed, opportunity is not. All students, regardless of race, income, culture, special needs, or support program, have the potential to qualify for advanced learning services when given equitable opportunity with culturally and linguistically accessible instruments and an unbiased qualification system.