The Advanced Learning Plan (ALP) is a document outlining programming for identified gifted students and is used as a guide for educational planning and decision-making. An ALP shall be developed for every gifted student according to the student’s determined area(s) of giftedness, interests, and instructional and affective needs.

The student's ALP should be like a blueprint that maps out what students hope to learn and accomplish in their area of strength. By becoming autonomous with guidance from home and school the benefits are endless. When students become independent learners and self-advocates they will:

• Take control of their learning

• Have a deeper understanding of their learning style and become strength based learners

• Become driver in improving their education

• Acquire learning skills that will apply to learning situations in life

• Will develop a greater sense of their abilities and become autonomous