• Gifted and Talented Program


     

    Exploring and Expanding Challenges in Education and Learning

     

    Lake Dallas ISD shares the state's goal for G/T students to ensure that those students who participate in G/T services demonstrate skills in self-directed learning, thinking, research, and communication. G/T students develop innovative products andsophisticated performances that reflect individuality and creativity and are targeted to an audience outside the classroom.

    A gifted/talented student is a child or youth who performs at or shows the potential for performing at a remarkably high level of accomplishment when compared to others of the same age, experience, or environment and who

    • exhibits high performance capability in an intellectual, creative, or artistic area;
    • possesses an unusual capacity for leadership; or
    • excels in a specific academic field. (Texas Education Code §29.121)