What’s currently trending in Peoria Unified? Creating engaging and rigorous curriculum. Our gifted education program  provides an increasingly comprehensive, challenging K-12 curriculum to meet the needs and enhance the talents of gifted learners. Peoria Unified is home two magnet schools that prioritize gifted education; these include Apache Elementary’s Gifted Academy and the Copperwood Center for Differentiated Instruction.  Today, we are joined by our Gifted Coordinator, Katie Lukacsik, to learn about how our teachers create engaging lessons that stick with students throughout their education and beyond. Additionally, we are speaking with April Rodriguez to hear what this looks like in our classrooms and how it increases student achievement.