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General Overview & Takeaways

  • The Superintendent or designee will develop procedures for an ongoing Kindergarten through grade twelve identification process for gifted and talented students. 

  •  Multiple data measures will be used to identify student strengths in intellectual ability, creativity, or a specific academic area. 

  • The district will provide the time and resources to develop, review, and enhance instructional tools with modifications for helping gifted and talented students acquire and demonstrate mastery of the required knowledge and skills specified by the standards at the instructional level of the student.  

 

 

All students are provided with enrichment educational opportunities throughout Roxbury Schools. At the elementary level, such services are provided during the What I Need (WIN) block K-4 and through the LAP period in grades 5-6. Roxbury Public Schools aim to expose all students to rigorous, age-appropriate S.T.E.A.M., enrichment, extension, exploration, and investigative instructional experiences that lead to higher level thinking related to the New Jersey Student Learning Standards to maximize their learning potential.

Collectively, these services offer students opportunities to both expand upon the foundations provided within the classroom, and to grow into lifelong scholars by encouraging the development of their own intrinsic motivation to become active model citizens of our society. 

 

All students in Kindergarten through Grade 6 are exposed to rigorous, age-appropriate S.T.E.A.M. instruction, as well as curricular enrichment and extension that leads to higher level thinking experiences of high interest.  These lessons and investigations are provided as part of the schedule as grade-level time with the homeroom teachers in each classroom. These lessons occur when the classroom schedule permits, but also are available during grade-level What I Need (WIN) periods (K-4) and LAP (5-6). This period is designed to allow students the opportunity to receive targeted support/instruction and to provide the space for them to be a part of the decision making process as it pertains to their learning. 

 

All students in secondary grades (7-12) are afforded opportunities to explore high-interest learning opportunities both through accelerated and choice programming.  These opportunities expand as students grow through the grade levels, culminating with the freedom that is afforded through the Senior Option and Independent Study programs at RHS.