Gifted and Talented Education (GATE)
Program Purpose
The Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) program, authorized by Education Code (EC) sections 52200-52212 (Outside Source), provides funding for local educational agencies (LEAs) to develop unique education opportunities for high-achieving and underachieving pupils in California public elementary and secondary schools who have been identified as gifted and talented. Special efforts are made to ensure that pupils from economically disadvantaged and varying cultural backgrounds are provided with full participation in these unique opportunities.
Prestwood school offers a pull-out GATE program that is operated through the Sonoma Unified School District. Students who are indentifed as GATE students receive an hour per week accelerated instruction with a specialized GATE teacher. All teachers at Prestwood provide differentiated instruction in the classroom for gifted and high acheiving students.
