Advanced Curriculum & Extended Learning: "The Vehicle"Provides the depth and complexity needed to ensure meaningful academic growth
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Stukey offers a variety of ways to engage scholars in our GT program through the state and National Association of Gifted Children standards throughout the day for continuous, rigorous, and joyful learning. We utilize high quality resources and concept based learning that includes inquiry. The curriculum is applied in authentic ways to authentic audiences.Teachers receive professional development opportunities to develop research based best practices for advanced and gifted learners.
Differentiated Learning Pathways: “The Roadmap”
Provides an education at the appropriate level of readiness and challenge
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At Stukey, we adapting, modify, or replace the core standard curriculum to allow for differentiation that meets the interests, strengths, and needs of students including twice exceptional, highly gifted, and multilingual learners.We carefully design flexible and cluster grouping in order to accelerate and/or compact the curriculum in ST Math and reading groups. We provide enrichment activities in our math program, problem based learning, and/ or long term projects. We consider a multi-faceted environment including physical, social, creative, emotional and intellectual components.
We also offer an after school club called Ambassadors. This club gives students an opportunity to meet once a month to brainstorm and implement ideas on how to help the Stukey community as well as our neighborhood community. In previous years the Ambassadors have started a fundraiser to raise money for our buddy bench, washed windows, helped around the school, and participated in several school wide events. In our neighborhood and community, Ambassadors have participated in the Northglenn Bike Giveaway, volunteered at the Colorado History Museum, and participated in the Highline Canal Clean Up. They even had an opportunity to visit MSU for a field trip. Keep an eye out for this program and all of the amazing things they are doing!
Individualized Opportunities & Enrichment: “The Customized Options”
Actively engages and motivates through interests and meaningful learning opportunities
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As an elementary school that values all learners, our staff takes a deep dive into our assessments and observations to determine scholars’ strengths and needs. Each grade level meets for data meetings once a week to analyze data and look at next steps in our instruction. Additionally, we include student and parent input and educators collaborate in order to set the best goals and measure outcomes for each student. In this work specifically, we have identified what skills need to be focused on for scholars in our Gifted and Talented program as well as scholars in the Talent Pool. This work at our school supports the district path to knowing each child by their name, strength, and need, so that each student has continuous rigorous academic and social emotional opportunities. When needed, we provide dual differentiation strategies based on student strengths and interests for twice-exceptional students that are in the talent pool or gifted with 504 plans and/or IEPs to help students meet their full potential.
Social-Emotional Learning: “The Destination”
Focuses on developing the whole child by balancing empowerment and accountability
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Our staff at Stukey are incredibly dedicated to student success. Our staff strives to create a community in which all students feel safe, valued, heard, and cared for. Once a week, educators teach a 2nd step lesson that focuses on social and emotional learning. These lessons are connected to the classroom and things learned are practiced throughout the school day. Each classroom teaches and utilizes the Wheel of Choice, a calm down area, restorative practices, and zones of regulation. Our amazing SELS allow students an opportunity to participate in lunch bunches which focus on specific social and emotional skills. Staff members at Stukey see the value in supporting students in all levels of learning.
