Our Values
IDEAL4Gifted is a safe place to be yourself, where authentic learning, collaboration, compassion, connections with real peers, creativity, kindness, and respect for ourselves, others, and the world are a consistent reality.
Our Mission:
The mission of IDEAL4Gifted is to deliver an education commensurate with the abilities of advanced, gifted, highly able, and twice-exceptional students by fostering intellectual and social-emotional growth in a supportive community that prepares students to become the innovators, problem solvers, and leaders of tomorrow.
Our Commitment to Diversity:
We are deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and strive to reach out to gifted learners from underserved communities. We recognize the significant loss of potential when children’s needs are unmet, and we are dedicated to providing the support needed to make a lasting impact on their educational journey. We are an independent program and do not receive any federal or state funds.
Our Students are advanced, gifted, highly able, and twice-exceptional children ages 5 to 14. They are grouped in each subject by readiness, not age. Groups are small (2 – 8) and are easily regrouped to fit students’ readiness in every subject and subset.
Our Teachers and Staff are all trained in gifted education and have many years of experience.
Our Classes are online nationwide and are all live in real time.
Mondays through Thursdays include Science, Soft Skills, Art, Math, Social Time with Lunch, English Language Arts, Social Studies, and Latin or Spanish. After that, there are interest clubs and student government options. Generous breaks are included between subjects for movement away from the screen.
Fridays include Creative and Critical Thinking Skills, Virtual Explorations of the “weird, wacky, and wonderful” with discussions, choices of Independent Investigations, a STEM Enrichment Cluster, a Humanities Enrichment Cluster, and Social Time at the end of the day