The Juneau School District, in partnership with our families and community, provides students with the skills, knowledge,
and attitudes to be contributing citizens in a changing world. The goal is success for ALL students through rigor, relevance, and relationships.

The strategy areas are:

• Rigorous and Relevant Curriculum and Teaching: Research and identify best practices, in district and elsewhere, for
rigorous and relevant teaching and learning that advances high expectations and meets the individual needs of students.
Recommend ways to support teachers and staff in implementing these practices with their student for instruction guided
by the district goals.

• Relationships: Identify ways to strengthen and expand multiple positive, committed relationships at all building levels.
Recommend ways to support schools in maximizing and maintaining the relationships students have with the staff and
community and that schools have with the home.

• Responsive Intervention: Identify effective academic and social-emotional intervention programs and recommend ways
to support schools in employing responsive interventions in all grades at the earliest sign of student need.

Gifted students in the Juneau School District receive educational support and services that provide opportunities directed to
their unique needs. These services include a differentiated instructional program that teaches higher level, creative thinking
processes in a flexible and responsive learning environment that is respectful of the uniqueness of the individual student and is
conducive to risk-taking and the exploration of new ideas.

DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW EXTENDED LEARNING PLAN IS UNDERWAY

The Juneau School District Extended Learning District Plan of Service Committee, composed by parents and community representatives, extended learning (EL) and general education teachers, counselors and school principals met in series of six, October-December meetings in a process of research, learning and deliberation to create an elementary EL plan of service within the parameters of 3 FTE. This parameter represents a significant reduction of the current allocation of 6 FTE.

In response to this directive the committee is presenting two proposals:

1) Re-structured Elementary Schools by Grade-span utilizing 3 FTE, and
2) Student/ Teacher Weighted System, utilizing 3 or 4 FTE.

These two proposals meet the basic Alaska Department of Education and Early Development legal requirements and attempt to forward the EL program district goal of delivering services that teach higher level and creative thinking in processes that are respectful of the uniqueness of the individual student and conducive to risk-taking and the exploration of new ideas.

CURRENT JSD EXTENDED LEARNING PLAN - EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2007 TO JUNE 30, 2012

The Extended Learning Program Plan is divided into the following sections:

• For information on the legal rationale for the extended learning program, please refer to page 1.
• The Juneau School District Board policy on gifted and talented students is also found on page 1.
• For information on the philosophy of the extended learning program please refer to page 2.
• The overall structure or program design of extended learning is described in Section 1 beginning on page 3.
• Information on program administration and management begins on page 7.
• Information on the processes and assessments that are used to determine student eligibility and identification begins on page 9.
• The curricular and instructional approaches supported by the extended learning program begin on page 17.
• The section addressing the social and emotional development of gifted students begins on page 20.
• Ongoing and targeted professional development is a critical element for student success; this section begins on page 22.
• Strategies to help ensure open and active involvement with parents and community begins on page 24.
• The essential elements for the evaluation of the extended learning program may be found on page 26.
• A glossary of frequently used, but perhaps unfamiliar, terms begins on page 27.