The Colorado Department of Education (CDE) is committed to ensuring that gifted students receive educational opportunities that match their abilities, strengths, and interests, as outlined in the Exceptional Children’s Educational Act (ECEA). Colorado requires districts to identify gifted learners using multiple criteria across intellectual, creative, leadership, and academic domains, and to provide them with individualized, challenging instruction through Advanced Learning Plans (ALPs).

In alignment with Colorado’s Comprehensive Program Plan for Gifted Education (CDE Gifted Education), Renzulli Learning delivers a research-based platform that supports identification, personalized enrichment, and documentation, ensuring gifted learners thrive across the state’s diverse districts.

Enhancing Talent Development Across the Centennial State

Colorado’s definition of giftedness includes high performance or potential in general or specific intellectual ability, academic aptitude, creative or productive thinking, leadership, and visual/performing arts.

Renzulli Learning supports this mission by:

• Gaining deeper insights into gifted learners through the Renzulli Profiler, Learning Styles Inventory, Executive Function Assessment, and Leadership Assessment, and supporting identification with the Cebeci Test of Creativity (CTC) — giving educators a robust, well-rounded student profile that complements district assessments.

• Creating individualized enrichment pathways aligned with ALP goals and student strengths.

• Promoting equitable access to advanced learning opportunities for students across Colorado’s urban, suburban, rural, and mountain communities.

Turning Colorado’s Gifted Education Standards into Everyday Practice

Our platform aligns with the ECEA Rules for Gifted Education and CDE’s program standards by:

• Multiple-Criteria Support – Providing assessment tools and data that complement district measures for gifted identification across intellectual, creative, and leadership domains.

• Personalized Enrichment Pathways – Matching enrichment resources to ALP goals, student strengths, and interests.

• 21st-Century Skills Development – Offering project-based learning tools to cultivate creativity, problem-solving, leadership, and executive function.

• Documentation & Compliance Support – Tracking student progress, enrichment products, and goal completion to support ALP management and CDE reporting requirements.