Middle School Highly Capable Program Services

MSQ services are provided for students in grades 6-8 who have been identified with academic needs that go beyond the scope of a general education classroom for certain subject areas. These students show both academic and cognitive needs that require specific and advanced educational differentiation.

Where will MSQ services be provided
Students identified for MSQ services will attend one of the specific middle school sites in LWSD that provides MSQ services. MSQ services are provided in a self-contained classroom with other identified MSQ students. These classrooms may be single-grade-level classrooms or contain multiple grades in one room.

What will MSQ services look like
The MSQ teachers will have access to district provided curriculum tools for all subject areas. MSQ Math is taught one grade level above their current grade, using the general education curriculum. MSQ ELA uses the general education curriculum, on grade level. Teachers will also employ strategies that extend and/or enrich the classroom learning experience for their students. This may include any/all strategies that teachers of CBS students employ, as well as:

• Project-based learning.
• Socratic seminars.
• Use of Byrdseed.TV instructional materials.
• Specific gifted education pedagogical practices.
• Instructional strategies used in Universal Design for Learning principles.

What courses are part of MSQ services

• Students receiving MSQ services are directly served in MSQ-specific ELA/social studies classes in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade.
• They are directly serviced in MSQ-specific math classes only in 6th grade. 
• Starting in 7th grade, MSQ students will take general Algebra and then Geometry in 8th grade.
• MSQ students are with their grade level peers for their remaining 3 courses (Science and 2 electives).