Highly Capable Program
Snoqualmie Valley School District remains committed to ensuring the continuation of high-quality services for all students, including our students in need of highly capable services. Our department has always worked closely with OSPI to align practices to mandates and guidance from the state. Updates will continue to be made to our website as additional guidance is provided by OSPI.
The district determines service models through ongoing program planning to ensure Highly Capable Services remain responsive to students' demonstrated educational needs while considering enrollment, staffing, and available resources. A Highly Capable Advisory Committee supports this planning process by providing recommendations and feedback regarding highly capable programming and services.
Program Goals
Highly Capable Services in SVSD are designed to ensure identified students:
- Access new learning and experiences that build from their current level of understanding through greater depth, complexity, abstraction, application, or advancement;
- Receive accelerated learning and enhanced instruction responsive to their demonstrated educational needs and identified areas of strength;
- Experience appropriate challenge based on readiness, with opportunities to think critically, make connections, solve complex problems, and apply learning in new contexts; and
- Make meaningful and continued academic growth from their individual levels of readiness.
Contact Us
Salina Fassler
Highly Capable Services Coordinator
425-831-0984
fasslers@svsd410.org
The Snoqualmie Valley School District Highly Capable Program provides a continuum of services for students in kindergarten through grade 12 who are identified as requiring accelerated learning and enhanced instruction. Through a variety of instructional service models, students receive appropriately challenging learning experiences designed to meet their demonstrated educational needs and support continued academic growth.
The district provides a continuum of Highly Capable Services from identification through graduation. Service models vary by grade level and are designed to respond to students' demonstrated educational needs as they develop over time.
Current Timeline
Highly Capable identification procedures and timelines are currently under review. Updated information, including key dates and next steps for families, will be posted soon.
Cognitive and academic screeners and assessments will take place annually between September and May for SVSD students. Assessments occur during the school day at your child's assigned school.
Students who meet the screening criteria will receive communication from the Teaching and Learning Department about next steps in the eligibility process.
Visit Washington Administrative Code Chapter 392-170 and Revised Code of Washington Chapter 28A.185 for information on Washington state regulations for highly capable services.
Frequently Asked Questions
Student Definition
Highly capable students are students in grades K–12 who demonstrate readiness and/or potential to benefit from advanced curriculum in English language arts and/or mathematics. These students require accelerated learning and enhanced instruction beyond the general education curriculum to achieve academic growth.
The Snoqualmie Valley School District identifies students for Highly Capable Services in English language arts and mathematics using a comprehensive review of multiple objective measures and other supporting evidence to determine demonstrated need for accelerated learning and enhanced instruction. Services are matched to each student's identified area(s) of strength.
Highly capable students are found in every school and across student populations. The district is committed to equitable identification practices that recognize the strengths and potential of students from historically underrepresented and low-income groups and expand access to appropriate Highly Capable Services.