Manheim Township School District

The EXCEL program (called "Gifted" at the secondary level) is designed to expand, extend and enhance learning opportunities for gifted students in order to help them reach their potential. The goal of EXCEL is for students to view learning as a lifelong process, which enriches the individual and benefits society.
The academically gifted students at the elementary, middle school, and high school levels will:

• Participate in activities and educational opportunities, which will foster their creative expression, advance their abilities to think analytically and critically, and stimulate them to excel as self-directed learners.
• Develop healthy self-concepts related to their giftedness
• Be encouraged to interact effectively with others and to use their abilities for the betterment of self and society.

Specific units of study for each level are developed, reviewed and evaluated on an annual basis.