Gifted Resource – Cluster Program Overview

Gifted education services are available for elementary students who are identified as intellectually gifted in grades 2-5.  The resource-cluster model is an arrangement in which a group (cluster) of identified gifted students is assigned to a classroom with a cluster teacher who collaborates with the gifted resource teacher to provide differentiated curriculum and instruction.  The cluster teacher is responsible for delivering gifted services in collaboration with the gifted resource teacher.

Students are not formally identified as gifted until the end of first grade when all first-grade students are screened for gifted services.