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Illinois serves advanced learners under Article 14A of the School Code (Gifted and Talented Children and Children Eligible for Accelerated Placement). Districts design local gifted programs and must also maintain a local accelerated placement policy that allows options such as early entrance, single-subject acceleration, and whole-grade acceleration. The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) provides guidance, maintains report-card data elements for gifted and accelerated services, and offers gifted teacher endorsements.

Cultivating Talent Across the Prairie State

Illinois emphasizes equitable access and local flexibility: districts set identification procedures for gifted programs, implement acceleration consistent with state law, and report gifted/accelerated participation on the Illinois Report Card.

Renzulli Learning supports this vision by:

• Developing a rich picture of each learner with the Renzulli Profiler, Learning Styles Inventory, Executive Function Assessment, Leadership Assessment, and (when used locally) creativity insights via the Cebeci Test of Creativity.

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

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

Turning Illinois’ Vision into Practice

Renzulli Learning helps districts operationalize state expectations by:

• Complementing local identification and acceleration processes with multiple learner data points (interests, learning styles, executive function, leadership, creativity) while keeping state-approved assessments and district criteria central.

• Delivering differentiated & enriched learning through thousands of curated resources and Schoolwide Enrichment Model project tools that extend depth, complexity, and creativity beyond the core program.

• Streamlining documentation and communication with exportable plans, progress artifacts, and summaries that support Illinois Report Card data needs for gifted/accelerated programming.

• Supporting educator capacity alongside ISBE’s gifted endorsement framework by providing ready-to-use enrichment structures and exemplars.