As used in this part 2, unless the context otherwise
requires:
(1) Administrative unit means a school district, a board of cooperative
services, a charter school network, a charter school collaborative, or the state
charter school institute that is providing educational services to exceptional
children and that is responsible for the local administration of this article 20.
(2) Advanced learning plan means a written record of a gifted student's
strengths and academic and affective learning goals and the resulting
programming utilized with each gifted child and considered in educational planning
and decision-making.
(3) Annual plan means an administrative unit's comprehensive gifted
education plan and annual proposed budget form that the administrative unit
submits to the department pursuant to state board rules.
(4) Aptitude means an exceptional ability to reason and learn. Screening
procedures for gifted children may consider aptitude in the context of a defined top
range of performance or test scores for purposes of recognizing gifted potential or
for identifying a talent pool for developing giftedness in one or more domains, as
defined by rule of the state board.
(5) Assessment means methods, tools, and data collected as a body of
evidence for use in the following gifted education processes:
(a) Identification and programming; and
(b) Monitoring the gifted child's performance and outcomes.
(6) Board of cooperative services means a regional educational services
unit created pursuant to article 5 of this title and designed to provide supporting,
instructional, administrative, facility, community, or any other services contracted
by participating members.
(7) Competence means documented performance, achievement, or test
scores on standardized or locally normed test results. Screening procedures may
consider competence in the context of a defined range of student performance, as
described by rule of the state board, for purposes of recognizing gifted potential or
identifying a talent pool for developing giftedness.
(8) Department means the department of education created and existing
pursuant to section 24-1-115, C.R.S.
(9) Evaluation means evaluation procedures, methods, and tools used to
initially identify a gifted child, assess and monitor the child's progress, and evaluate
the child and the gifted program. Evaluation includes, but need not be limited to:
(a) Identifying the child's unique strengths, interests, and needs;
(b) Monitoring the child's academic achievement and growth;
(c) Identifying the priorities and concerns of the child's family and resources
to which the family and the child's school have access; and
(d) Determining program strengths and areas for program improvement.
(10) Exceptional child means:
(a) A child defined in section 22-20-103 (5) as a child with a disability. An
administrative unit shall serve every child with a disability from three to twenty-one
years of age and may serve children with disabilities from birth through two years
of age.
(b) A child defined in subsection (11) of this section as a gifted child. Pursuant
to section 22-20-204 (1), an administrative unit shall adopt and submit to the
department a program plan to identify and serve gifted children who are at least
five years of age.
(11) Gifted child means a person from four to twenty-one years of age
whose aptitude or competence in abilities and talents and potential for
accomplishments in one or more domains, as defined by state board rule, are so
outstanding that he or she requires special provisions to meet his or her educational
needs.
(12) Gifted education services or gifted education programs means the
services or programs provided to gifted children pursuant to this part 2. Gifted
education services and gifted education programs include, but need not be
limited to, strategies, programming options, and interventions reflecting evidence-based practices, such as acceleration, concurrent enrollment, differentiated
instruction, and affective guidance.
(13) Highly advanced gifted child means a gifted child that an
administrative unit, using criteria and a process established by rules that the state
board promulgates pursuant to section 22-20-204.5 (4), has identified as a highly
advanced gifted child.
(14) Individual career and academic plan means the plan created for each
student pursuant to sections 22-30.5-525 and 22-32-109 (1)(oo).
(15) Program elements means components of a program plan, which
include, but need not be limited to, definition, communication, identification,
programming, personnel, accountability, reporting, record keeping, and resolution
of disagreements.
(16) Program plan means a comprehensive and complete narrative of
program elements described in state board rules. A program plan must include, but
need not be limited to:
(a) The procedures the administrative unit will use to identify gifted
students;
(b) The programming and documentation options that the administrative unit
will implement in operating the gifted program; and
(c) Actions and tools for ensuring accountability for the academic
achievement of gifted children and for evaluating the gifted program, which actions
and tools are aligned with state accountability and program evaluations.
(17) Qualified person or qualified personnel means an educator that holds
or is working toward attaining a gifted education license endorsement, a director of
gifted education license endorsement, or a master's degree or higher in gifted
education.
(18) School district means a school district organized and existing pursuant
to law, but shall not include a local college district.
(19) State board means the state board of education created and existing
pursuant to section 1 of article IX of the state constitution.