At Spring Lake Park Schools, we focus on personalized learning ensures all students have opportunities to apply their learning across new, complex, and authentic experiences. All students engage in work and learning experiences that develop their potential in the academic competencies for each core subject and elective area. They also engage in learning experiences to develop career and life competencies including self-direction, collaboration, civic and cultural awareness, communication, creativity and innovation, digital literacy, and critical thinking.
Students have opportunities to learn, practice, and transfer their learning across disciplines over time. All students engage in learning experiences at all depths of knowledge. All students benefit from experiences that provide enrichment and challenge.
Our Talent Development for All approach allows for a greater focus on the development of emerging talent and potential. This offers more opportunities to address the needs of a wider range of students (Olszewski-Kubilius & Thompson, 2015).
Talent Development for All is supported primarily by classroom teachers. Innovative and personalized learning specialists, districtwide gifted specialists, and continuous improvement and innovation coaches are regularly supporting classroom teachers in their design of student work and learning experiences that will support talent development for all.
