Mission & Vision

Shared Vision

Supporting students’ needs ahead of their labels.

Shared Mission

To educate a 21st Century learner through collaboration, learner-centered practices, and by holding high expectations for each other and for students of Westminster Public Schools.

Being a gifted learner is not about status, elitism or exclusivity of one group over another;

What benefits one, benefits all. Therefore, all students may gain from gifted programming within our competency-based system;

It is about removing barriers to improve access, not about putting them up to trip over;

Every student, regardless of age or label, should have the ability to accelerate one’s learning trajectory and/or go deeper into the content to demonstrate competency;

It is about seeing students beyond their labels - at risk, special needs, English learner, impoverished, gifted, struggling - and, instead, meeting their potentials;

It is about empowering all students to have agency toward their own academic, occupational, linguistic and social-emotional learning;

It is about providing multiple opportunities for students to demonstrate success, not about limiting how one shows competency;

It is about providing personalized learning and adjusting services for learners when the need presents itself, not a “one-size-fits-all” approach;

It is about creating environments and developing talents yet untapped. Talent scouting and programming are just as important as recognizing those who demonstrate easily recognizable gifts and talents; and

Identified gifted learners enrolled from another district shall maintain their eligibility and access to what the WPS Gifted Education department offers.