- Clay Community Schools
- High Ability Education Services
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Goals and Objectives
- Ensure a rigorous core curriculum based on Indiana Common Core Standards and Indiana Academic Standards
- Provide a differentiated curriculum that responds to the academic needs of high ability students
- Offer accelerated curriculum to meet the individual needs
- Develop the academic abilities of students so that they will be able to master new and difficult curriculum challenges
- Integrate the content areas through key concepts, issues, and themes
- Assist in meeting the unique social and emotional needs of high ability students
- Foster a learning environment which values and enhances intellectual abilities and interaction among intellectual peers so that students may become self-reflective learners
- Expose students to cultural experiences
- Provide students with opportunities to become self-directed learners, which requires organizational skills, study skills, and persistence in the face of difficulty
- Develop critical, creative, and evaluative thinking processes so that students will be able to address complex issues with the necessary tools of problem-solving.