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Naperville Community Unit District
Gifted Opportunities & Programs
Honors Math, PI, and PI+
Honors Math
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Honors Mathematics is for gifted and talented students who demonstrate mathematical understanding, problem solving, and reasoning skills. This program begins second trimester of grade three and continues through grade eight. Honors Mathematics is offered at all fourteen elementary buildings and all five junior high schools.Honors Mathematics students are able to demonstrate that they grasp concepts quickly, see patterns, and make connections across disciplines and among operations. Students’ thinking in mathematics is flexible. The critical objectives, aligned with the Common Core State Standards, allow students in the program to complete Algebra I during their eighth grade year and Geometry during their first year of high school.The process for identification, including eligibility matrices, is available on the Identification and Placement page.
Project Idea
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Project IDEA (Increase and Develop Excellence in Academics), also known as PI, is for gifted and talented students in grades four through eight. The program is offered at all fourteen elementary buildings and at all five junior high schools.The program seeks to develop, through integration of curriculum, the higher level thinking skills of analysis, synthesis, and evaluation as well as creative and critical thinking skills. Approximately 40% of the instructional time is spent on traditional gifted activities involving creative and critical problem solving, and approximately 60% of the instructional time is spent on the literacy strands of reading, writing, and speaking and listening aligned with District 203’s curriculum available from your student's classroom teacher.The sixth, seventh and eighth grade Project IDEA curriculum is an integrated Language Arts block focusing on reading, writing, and speaking and listening. A detailed outline of each year in the curriculum cycle is available at the schools.
The Project IDEA curriculum is differentiated to meet the needs of all learners by changing the process, content, product, or the learning environment in which students are engaged.
The process for identification, including eligibility matrices, is available on the Identification, Eligibility and Placement page
Project Idea
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Project IDEA+, also known as PI+, is a magnet program designed for students who have been identified for Project IDEA and Honors Mathematics. The Project IDEA+ magnet program for grades six through eight takes place at Kennedy Junior High School.
Students participate in enriched and accelerated self-contained classes in a humanities strand, which includes the literacy strands integrated with District 203 social science content. The mathematics and science strand includes high school algebra at the seventh-grade level, honors geometry at the eighth-grade level, and freshman-level conceptual physics.The process for identification, including eligibility matrices, is available on the Identification, Eligibility and Placement page.
