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At IPS, our High Ability schools emphasize serving the unique academic, social, and emotional needs of high-ability students from diverse social, cultural, and economic backgrounds. This program offers lesson plans that dig deeper into concepts, have real-world application, and include advanced grade level standards to develop students into critical thinkers who can make positive impacts on society.

The High Ability educational model recognizes that students need a tailored curriculum that will address their individual characteristics, needs, academic abilities, and interests. Teachers routinely work with the district's high-ability coordinator and coaches to create learning experiences that will allow these students to develop to their full potential and are trained to evaluate situations where students may need subject acceleration due to advanced understanding of the subject matter.

Note: Students must qualify as high ability in either math or ELA or both to enter this program. Please contact IPS at 317-226-4000 for more information.

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At IPS, our Dual Language schools aim to develop academic content in English and Spanish for native and non-native speakers in both languages. The program builds cultural competence by promoting multilingual capabilities in students. At the elementary level, we use a 50/50 model where students will receive half of their instruction in English and half in Spanish. Middle School students take Spanish Language Arts and one additional course, such as science or social studies depending on the student's grade level, that are taught in Spanish.

The Dual Language educational model is built on three pillars: bilingualism and biliteracy, grade-level academic achievement, and cross-cultural competency. This program supports linguistic and cultural diversity by creating multilingual and multicultural spaces for students to learn. Students will develop academic language skills and content knowledge through multilingual instruction, as well as develop skills to be participants in an ever-developing global society.

Our Dual Language programs are additive in that they support the continual development of English in addition to the Spanish language. As a two-way immersion program, students with different native languages will learn together. The goal is not to transition to a dominant language, but to maintain and value the native language while developing a second with equal proficiency.

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