Advanced Learning Plan

All formally identified gifted students have an Advanced Learning Plan (ALP) at Mount Carbon:

• The ALP is primarily managed by the classroom teacher with collaboration and input from parents and students.
• The ALP is a living document that guides the student's academic and social-emotional progress through a goal-setting process that follows the Jeffco ALP Lifecycle.
• Each identified gifted student will have two goals each school year, one academic goal tied to their identified strength, and one affective (social and emotional) goal.
• The student's ALP progress is monitored three times a year
• Towards the end of the school year, ALPs are evaluated as to whether the students have met their goals or not.

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Jeffco ALP Information

The Advanced Learning Plan (ALP) is a legal document outlining programming for identified gifted students and guides educational planning and decision-making. An ALP is developed for every gifted student according to the student’s determined areas of giftedness, interests, and instructional and affective needs. The ALP is created after a student is formally identified as gifted. Learn about GT identification in Jeffco to begin this referral process for a student.

The student's ALP should map out what students hope to learn and accomplish in their area of strength. When students become independent learners and self-advocates they will:

• Take control of their learning and improve their education.
• Deepen understanding of their learning style and become strength-based learners.
• Acquire learning skills that apply to learning situations in life.
• Will develop a greater sense of their abilities.

Families and students in grades 6-12 may view ALPs in Student Insights.