Gifted & Talented

Our Vision

In Poudre School District, where excellence means belonging, opportunity, and supporting the whole child, the PSD Gifted Program nurtures, identifies, and develops potential in gifted students across all ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds. We strive to ensure that our gifted learners develop high-level thinking skills and positive self-esteem while offering academic challenge, connection with like-minded peers, and opportunities to explore their unique interests.

Our Mission

Rooted in PSD's commitment to "Educate every child, every day," the PSD Gifted Program partners with families and educators at every school in our district to remove barriers, surface advanced potential, and deliver programming and support tailored to the unique academic, affective, and social-emotional needs of gifted learners.

Who are gifted students?

The Exceptional Children's Educational Act (ECEA) defines "gifted" children as:

Those persons between the ages of four and twenty-one whose aptitude or competence in abilities, talents, and potential for accomplishment in one or more domains are so exceptional or developmentally advanced that they require special provisions to meet their educational programming needs. 

Gifted students include gifted students with disabilities (i.e. twice exceptional) and students with exceptional abilities or potential from all socio-economic, ethnic, and cultural populations. Gifted students are capable of high performance, exceptional production, or exceptional learning behavior by virtue of any or a combination of these areas of gifted identification:

• Specific Academic Aptitude (ex: Math, Reading)
• Specific Talent Aptitude
  • Creative or productive thinking
  • Leadership abilities
  • Visual arts, music, performing arts, or psychomotor abilities 
• General or Specific Intellectual Ability

Additionally, ECEA defines a twice exceptional (2e) student as a learner who is identified as gifted and with a disability supported by an Individual Education Program (IEP) or a learner who is identified as gifted and has a Section 504 Plan.

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