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The Mead School District’s elementary highly capable program is designed to provide appropriate educational experiences for those students in grades four through six who perform or show the potential to perform at a remarkably high level when compared to students of similar age, experience, or environment.

Philosophy
Within heterogeneous, inclusive learning groups and settings, the Quest Program provides an enriched, differentiated, accelerated and rigorous standards-based curriculum that presents learning at a pace, depth, and intensity that meets students’ intellectual needs while simultaneously encouraging growth of individual potential.

Director
Millie Hill     mhill@mead.k12.wa.us    465-6100

Teachers
Connie Voight      cvoight@mead.k12.wa.us       465-6123 (leave message)
Jeanne Sciuto      jsciuto@mead.k12.wa.us        465-6123 (leave message)

Location
All eight elementary schools; each teacher serves four buildings, each building one day per week;  Click here to see teacher/school schedule

Classes
Grade 4 – students served for approximately 45 minutes once per week
Grades 5 and 6 – students served for approximately two hours once per week

Curriculum
Grade 4 – critical thinking, creative thinking, and group problem solving activities; instruction designed to enhance skills needed in the 5th and 6th grade Quest classes
Grades 5 and 6 – theme based integrated units enriching students in the areas of math, science and the humanities; weekly warm-ups include a short creative thinking and critical thinking activity

Class Work Make-up Policy
Quest students are not required to make-up class work unless that work is part of an on-going unit of study and some action is required so the student can keep up with the class.

Student Identification/Eligibility Requirements
Click here to view the student identification flow chart.
Once a student enters the Quest Program, no new testing is required to move from 4th to 5th to 6th grades.  A student learning plan will be mailed home in June of each year.  The form must be signed and returned before a student may attend Quest class the following year.