What is LEAP [Learning Enrichment Academic Program]?
LEAP is a program for the potentially gifted and talented student in the area of general intellectual ability.
There are many kinds of giftedness but the LEAP program only identifies and serves children demonstrating giftedness revealed by learning-potential tests, achievement tests, and observed characteristics.
How is testing done?
If you give permission to test, your child will be pulled out of the regular classroom at times set by the teacher and myself. It will take a total of approximately 4-6 hours to complete all of the tests. Testing will not be conducted all at one time and will be carried out in no more than one-hour segments.
How long does all this take?
I am also a full-time teacher. Testing is secondary to my classroom responsibilities. After the completed referral is received, it will take several weeks to do the testing. Then the student data must go through a district screening committee that meets once every six weeks. You will receive a letter informing you of the committee decision.
How would my child be served in the elementary program?
The elementary LEAP program is a pullout program in the Lewisville school district. This means your child will be “pulled out” of their classroom at a scheduled time each week. Students will be pulled from one - six hours per week, depending on their grade level. Students are not missing instruction in the regular classroom.
What do they do in the LEAP class?
LEAP is a thinking skills program. It is not an acceleration program. The students have lessons and activities that are designed to nurture and build the potential they have demonstrated. The four major goals of the LEAP program are:
1. to be aware of the student’s own unique potential and learning style in order to develop abilities for the betterment of self and society;
2. to utilize higher level thinking skills that develop intellectual curiosity and critical, creative, and productive thinking;
3. to understand and apply the problem-solving process in a cooperative group setting through analysis and evaluation of real-life situations; and,
4. to develop advanced reference skills for using multiple concepts and resources in synthesizing an elaborate product.
Feel free to contact me for more information about LEAP.
For kids,
Susan Buchanan
buchanansm@lisd.net
469-713-5985
972-350-3796 (voicemail)
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