Through the Vision of the Graduate, the School District of New Berlin supports each student by providing developmentally appropriate opportunities to learn and demonstrate required and desired knowledge, skills, and dispositions. The school district believes all students deserve an education commensurate with their individualized, particular needs. While the needs of each child are usually able to be met with the core curriculum through differentiation, some students require access to advanced programming, curriculum or grade level acceleration to reach their fullest potential.
Each school has designated a person to coordinate gifted and talented programming, called a Gifted and Talented (TAG) liaison. Identification and programming happens, when appropriate, kindergarten through grade 12 in general intellectual, specific academic, leadership, creativity, and visual and performing arts. The identification process and tools shall be responsive to factors such as, but not limited to, pupils' economic conditions, race, gender, creed, national origin, native language, developmental differences, and identified disabilities as described under subch. V of Ch. 115, Wis. Stats.
School District of New Berlin TAG Structure
Parents, students and community members having questions regarding Gifted and Talented Programming are encouraged to speak to the classroom teacher first. Issues and concerns that cannot be resolved should then be referred to the building TAG liaison and then on to the building principal. The Director of Secondary Teaching and Learning and the Director of Elementary Teaching and Learning work with the TAG liaisons to develop and market opportunities for advanced learners.
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