The Mountain View School GATE Program is designed to meet the GATE student’s need as well as to exceed state standards. It is offered at all the sites in the regular classroom with a specific GATE classroom plan to differentiate curriculum.

Each of the classroom’s plans identifies objectives, implementation strategies, and identifies how it will be monitored and evaluates the plan. The program elements include opportunities to differentiate through acceleration, depth, novelty and complexity. It also cultivates the students’ sensitivity and responsibility, ethical standards, problem solving, and self concept.

Every Fall and Spring, the Mountain View School District Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) Program offers our GATE students intensive, compacted course offerings over four consecutive Saturdays.  The classes are taught by district teachers and special guest instructors.  Last year's classes included Capoeira- Brazilian Martial Arts, HeartMath Tools for Emotional Resiliency, Mouse Trap- creative problem solving, Newscasting, Lego Amusement Park Robotics, Dreamweaver Web Design, 17th Century Cooking and Drama, Lights-Camara-Action, and Mesoamerica- Past and Present.

The GATE Program is always looking for innovative, challenging course offerings for our Saturday GATE Institute Program.  If you have an idea, or would be able to offer a class in one of our Institutes for the 2009-2010 school year, you may contact Dr. Aileen LaCorte at 626-652-4150 and alacorte@mtview.k12.ca.us or Dolores Haro at 626-652-4985 and dharo@mtview.k12.ca.us.