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 and an invitation to attend a conference we are hosting this fall:

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)
Links to other gifted organizations

We are pleased to host the first annual Pillars of Gifted Education Conference, being held at the Greenwood Inn, Calgary, Alberta, on October 22—23, 2010.  The focus for this year’s conference will be The Affective Curriculum - one of Westmount Charter School’s four pillars. Our keynote speakers will be Dr. Tracy Cross, director of The Centre for Gifted Education, College of William and Mary and Dr. Richard Olenchak from the University of Houston.

To go to the Conference website, click on the logo below, or for registration, click here.

Westmount Charter School's AISI Projects

After a successful three-year cycle supported by the Alberta Initiative for School Improvement (AISI), Westmount's Professional Partners program concluded in 2006. This innovative professional development program for teachers, our AISI Cycle II project, was designed to have our teachers actually live out the idea of continuous and active learning. Many of the learnings gained through our Professional Partners program have informed our current Professional Learning Communities.

Our cycle III (2006-2009) AISI project, designed to build a strong tri-partnership between students, teachers and parents to address the issue of gifted student underachievement, has also reached a successful conclusion. For the Cycle III synopsis, click here.

We have now embarked on our cycle IV AISI project, a three year long, multi-faceted project entitled "Building an Engaged Learning Community". An overview of this project will be posted soon. For a description of the Literacy Framework that is being developed via this project, 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.

8 July 2010