Welcome to Gifted Services at Las Brisas!

     Deer Valley Gifted Services expanded our programming beginning in the 2022-23 school year at our Las Brisas campus. Your child qualifies for the Bright Beginnings Early Learning program if they scored at the 90^th percentile or higher in one of the state approved areas of giftedness. 

Bright Beginnings Preschool

Available at Las Brisas Gifted Academy – Students are placed via Deer Valley USD Screener – Space is now limited - DVUSD Pre-K Gifted Academy

Pre- K:

     Deer Valley's Gifted Pre-K Academy at Las Brisas provides an enriched academic foundation for gifted and talented learners.  The Gifted Pre-K Academy serves as a foundation for nurturing the development of our youngest scholars who require advanced learning opportunities.  The Gifted Pre-K Academy environment is structured to provide a personalized approach to learning within socially appropriate contexts.  Instruction is hands-on to promote discovery learning and FUN!

Kindergarten:

     Qualifying students are placed in a Bright Beginnings Kindergarten classroom with children of similar abilities.  Students participating in Bright Beginnings are taught by a gifted endorsed teacher.  During their time in Bright Beginnings Kindergarten, students work and learn at a pace commensurate with their advanced abilities.  Instruction is project and problem-based to support critical and creative thinking within an inquiry learning environment.

1st Grade:

     The primary age experience within the Bright Beginnings classroom is enriched to ensure growth and development.  Primary age students explore enriched and advanced content.  Students benefit from a thematic approach to learning, fostering depth and complexity across each of the core content areas.  Students participating in Bright Beginnings class are taught by a gifted endorsed teacher.  

2nd Grade:

     Students participating in Las Brisas' K-2 Bright Beginnings Program automatically progress to the next grade throughout their K-2 academic journey.  At the end of 2nd grade, students will be re-assessed to determine future gifted programming options for third grade and above. The programming options may include Gifted Cluster, SAGE, Walk-Up Math or Renaissance placements.

     The DVUSD’s Highly Gifted Program. Students must score 90+ in all 3 areas tested and with 280 points or higher as an overall total score on the CogAT assessment. Students also must pass the application process. All students in this program are in a full day, gifted classroom with a highly qualified, gifted endorsed teacher. Math and ELA are accelerated, Science and Social Studies are enriched, and STEAM and Global Studies projects are daily activities.

     Students enrolled in the Bright Beginnings and Renaissance programs at Las Brisas Gifted Academy have multiple opportunities to experience global languages and cultures. This is done through integration in the classrooms in our problem and project-based learning units and through world languages and cultures classes offered multiple times each week. Each year the school will be staffed with world language teachers to offer our students direct instruction in one or more languages. These languages will/may change based on staffing and program needs. The goal is to have our students learn about and appreciate other cultures as well as learn some language skills in the elementary grades that will prepare them for high school language classes.