GT Center Schools

A GT resource teacher provides services to students, teachers, administrators and parents to meet individual students' needs. GT resource teachers serve many schools and are not at any school on a full-time basis.

Building leaders are members of the school staff who disseminate info from the GT Department to the individual school's community.

A GT counselor, also known as a social-emotional learning counselor (SELC), listens to GT center students' concerns about academic, emotional or social concerns and provides social-emotional learning support for GT center classes.

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The needs of advanced learners are mainly addressed at neighborhood schools. Jeffco offers an optional program, the gifted center, for highly academic students who are identified as gifted.

Gifted centers, in existence since 1984, are housed in regular school settings and provide full-time educational experiences. Instruction involves acceleration, enrichment and attention to affective needs, and is based on various formal and informal data to ensure the needs of students are met.

 A trained GT counselor provides social-emotional support to classrooms one day per week at GT center schools. Read more about the difference between neighborhood schools and GT centers.

Jeffco currently offers eight elementary, six middle school and two high school center programs.

Enrollment may vary at each GT center depending on the number of students currently enrolled and staffing capacity at each grade level. Some schools may need to combine primary grade levels, cluster small groups of students or adopt some other configuration to accommodate GT center students in these grades. No matter the configuration, the program ensures that the academic and affective needs of GT students will be met.