• The gifted program in the Cartwright Elementary School District is designed to develop gifted students’ intellectual, emotional, and social abilities and to honor the diversity among students identified as gifted through a differentiated and challenging curriculum.

    • Higher-level thinking skills are consistently incorporated within a highly flexible environment where curriculum compacting, acceleration, and enrichment are all integrated into daily lessons.
    • Teachers create differentiated lessons using content, process, product, and learning environment to accommodate their gifted students by:
      • Flexible Grouping
      • Compacted Curriculum
      • Higher Order Thinking/Questions/Assessments (DOK levels 3 & 4 and Bloom’s Taxonomy: Analyzing, Evaluating, Creating)
      • Independent Study/Independent Investigations
      • Tiered Tasks
      • Extension Menus/Choice Boards/Product Choice
      • Learning Stations
      • Curriculum Acceleration
      • STEAM Lab
      • Genius Hour