Board will look over report from two-year study

The Austin Public Schools board will hear the results of more than two years of work to broaden the district’s gifted and talented program efforts at its special session Monday.

Educational Services Director John Alberts said Gifted and Talented Coordinator David Wolff and staff have spent about two years researching how best to serve students at multiple levels in the gifted and talented elementary program.

The district spent a year identifying ways it could better educate multiple tiers of gifted and talented students in first through fourth grade, and another year trying some of those ways out. Alberts said the board will hear the result of the district’s work as well as recommendations for the gifted and talented program moving forward.

The board meets at 4 p.m. Monday inside the district conference room at Austin High School.