WESTMOUNT CHARTER SCHOOL
The Centre for Excellence
in Gifted Education
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Publicly Funded
established 1996 • K-grade 12

Welcome, Educators!

Westmount Charter School has been providing gifted programming since the 1996-1997 school year. One of the most important mandates for Alberta's Charter Schools is to share their learnings with the broader educational community, so in that spirit, please find below a number of links:

Giftedness: what is giftedness?
Giftedness: profiles of giftedness
Giftedness: gifted underachievement (our cycle 3 AISI project)
Giftedness: literature review on the topic of gifted underachievement
Current Education Plan (PDF)
Current Annual Education Results Report (PDF)
Charter Evaluation, 2004 (PDF)

Cycle II AISI Project: Professional Partners

After a successful three-year cycle supported by the Alberta Initiative for School Improvement (AISI), Westmount's Professional Partners program has come to its conclusion. This innovative professional development program for teachers was designed to have our teachers actually live out the idea of continuous and active learning.
Our next three-year (2006-2009) AISI program is designed to build a strong tri-partnership between students, teachers and parents to address the issue of gifted student underachievement. For more details about AISI, click here.

Alberta's Charter public schools are autonomous public schools of choice which provide education in an innovative way. Teaching staff are Alberta-certificated teachers. Each charter school is designed to implement innovations in the organization and delivery of education, which results in improvements in student learning. To learn more about Charter School, including a list of Alberta's Charter Schools, click here.

Job Opportunities at Westmount Charter School

Westmount provides gifted programming for students from kindergarten to grade 12, with a full range of subjects. We offer a competitive wage and benefits package for teaching and support positions, and have been a practicum site for a number of teachers-in-training. To see the current job opportunities that are available at Westmount, click here.