Welcome to the District's Highly Capable Program's official website, where excellence meets opportunity!

Highly Capable students are identified following state definitions of Highly Capable students (WAC 392-170-035.)  Highly capable students are students who perform or show potential for performing at significantly advanced academic levels when compared with others of their age, experiences, or environments. Outstanding abilities are seen within students' general intellectual aptitudes, specific academic abilities, and/or creative productivities within a specific domain. These students are present not only in the general populace, but are present within all protected classes according to chapters 28A.640 and 28A.642 RCW.

Students who are Highly Capable may possess, but are not limited to these learning characteristics: 

1. Capacity to learn with unusual depth of understanding, to retain what has been learned, and to transfer learning to new situations;
2. Capacity and willingness to deal with increasing levels of abstraction and complexity earlier than their chronological peers;
3. Creative ability to make unusual connections among ideas and concepts;
4. Ability to learn quickly in their area(s) of intellectual strength; and
5. Capacity for intense concentration and/or focus.

For more information please visit the OSPI Highly Capable website

 I graduated from the University of Washington with a master’s in teaching degree in 2004, and taught for 20 years in grades 2, 3, 4 and 5 in Seattle, Edmonds, Everett and Easton. I spent many of those years teaching in the highly capable program, and love to integrate literacy, math and science within project-based learning to get kids thinking deeply and solving real-world problems. I have three daughters and we like to spend time hiking, biking, snowmobiling and going to the beach. I’m excited to join the Cle Elum-Roslyn team!