East Moline School District 37 parent navigator Last updated 09/09/2026
East Moline's TEC program screens students at every grade transition, accepts parent referral, and reviews ability, achievement, work, and teacher evidence. Grades 1-4 combine cluster classrooms with weekly pullout; Grades 5-8 use subject-specific Challenge classes.
Independent from East Moline School District 37. Official district instructions always control.
When your family may need to act
Use the row that matches your child's grade and situation. Dates below come from the linked district instructions; confirm them before submitting.
Students entering Grades 1-8
The district explains who is screened at each transition but does not post one annual closing date. Ask the classroom teacher or TEC director early in the school year for referral, testing, committee, and family-notification dates.
Verify with the district ↗All students entering Grade 5
All fourth graders are re-identified for middle-school TEC. Ask before spring testing which recent ability, achievement, rating, and recommendation evidence will be used.
Verify with the district ↗How Bloomfield Academy helps
Use the Parent Guide free. Choose Navigator when you want the process managed around your child. Choose Mentor when you want to connect that local opportunity to a longer-term interest, real projects, and a private record of growth. Bloomfield turns T.E.C. — Thinking Skills, Enrichment and Challenge into three clear layers of support.
Get the local program name, grades, identification process, services, deadlines, parent steps, and official instructions—all in plain language.
Navigator adds a child-specific timeline, deadline and policy alerts, a guided checklist, and one place to organize forms, work samples, and questions for the school.
Mentor includes Navigator plus a 12-week pathway, four short weekly challenges, one substantial monthly project, a Friday parent insight, and a private Growth Portfolio.
What the official record confirms
Applicable school year: 2026-27. Bloomfield separates official requirements from our preparation guidance.
Published coverageGrades 1-8
Published processAll students are considered when entering Grades 1 and 5. Students not already served can be screened at other grade transitions using test scores and teacher or parent referral; Grades 5-8 also allow self-referral. A committee individually reviews profiles. Entering Grades 1-2 use ability, work, and teacher evidence; entering Grades 3-8 use recent ability and achievement tests plus teacher recommendations and ratings, with supplemental evidence when results are missing or questionable.
Published modelIdentified Grades 1-4 students are clustered with age peers and receive differentiated classroom work plus a weekly mathematics or language-arts pullout lasting about 90 to 150 minutes by grade. Grades 5-8 use homogeneous Challenge classrooms only in qualifying subjects: mathematics, language arts, science, or social studies. Elementary students are re-identified after Grade 4 for the middle-school model.
Your family's route
This plan translates the published process without changing it. Confirm current district instructions before submitting.
Adds the date and task to one family plan, with alerts before it becomes urgent.
Turns the district language into a short list of questions to confirm with your school.
Provides guided prompts and one private place to organize authentic examples and documents.
Tracks forms, confirmations, and any related enrollment or transfer step.
Keeps the decision, follow-up, and appeal questions together so the next move is clear.
Application support
District forms and prompts vary. This annotated, fictional example shows how to turn a real observation into useful evidence without copying language or inventing accomplishments.
Explore the annotated example →What have you observed that shows your child may need greater depth, complexity, or pace?
“After her model failed, Maya changed one part at a time, recorded each result, and explained why the designs failed differently.”
Parent-to-parent
Share practical, firsthand wisdom about T.E.C. — Thinking Skills, Enrichment and Challenge. Parent experience is kept separate from the official program facts above.
Trust is part of the product
The program facts above come from the linked official sources. Bloomfield's checklist translates those facts into practical next steps without predicting selection or presenting parent anecdotes as district policy.
Supported by the district links and applicable school year shown on this guide.
A plain-language explanation or constructive preparation recommendation.
Shown only when it is dated, moderated, and clearly labeled—not as an official rule.
Primary sources
Last updated 09/09/2026. Program rules can change; verify the current school year with East Moline School District 37 before acting.