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Hawai‘i’s framework for Gifted & Talented (G/T) education is set in Hawaii Administrative Rules (HAR) Chapter 8-51, which requires every public school to identify gifted and talented students using multiple factors and to provide appropriate educational opportunities beyond the regular program. Identification may consider domains including intellectual ability, specific academic ability, creativity, leadership, psychomotor, and performing/visual arts.

Board of Education Policy 105-5 directs HIDOE to lead a statewide plan for G/T—setting ambitious curriculum goals, building staff capacity, engaging families, and establishing a statewide system for student identification, parent notification, and program evaluation.

HIDOE’s public TAG page reinforces this commitment and links families and educators to the state framework and supports.

Cultivating Talent Across the Aloha State

HAR 8-51 details practical expectations schools must meet:

• Local screening & multiple data sources (test scores, nominations, student products, records) and additional assessments as needed.

• A school committee for gifted and talented to review profiles, recommend placements, and periodically review student progress.

• Flexible programming that increases depth/complexity, provides time with intellectual peers, and includes guidance for social-emotional growth.

• Parent consent before placement, annual recordkeeping, and reevaluation when needed.

Renzulli Learning supports this mission by:

• Developing a holistic portrait of each learner with the Renzulli Profiler, Learning Styles Inventory, Executive Function Assessment, Leadership Assessment, and creativity insights via the Cebeci Test of Creativity (to inform services after local identification; schools continue to follow Hawai‘i’s rules and measures).

• Supporting student-driven learning strategies by aligning enrichment to students’ interests, strengths, and readiness.

• Scaling equity and access with a web-based platform schools can implement consistently statewide.

Turning Hawaii’s Vision into Practice

Renzulli Learning helps schools operationalize HAR 8-51 and BOE Policy 105-5 by:

• Adding strength-based insights (interests, creativity, learning styles, executive function, leadership) alongside school screening data, committee review, and placement decisions.

• Delivering enriched learning beyond the regular program through thousands of curated resources and Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM)-style projects.

• Streamlining documentation & communication—shareable plans, activity logs, progress artifacts—to support parent consent, yearly recordkeeping, and reevaluation workflows.

• Aligning to BOE goals for statewide identification, parent notification, and program evaluation with clear, exportable evidence schools can aggregate.