Breaking News Invite other Gifted parents to your district meetings. Let the District see that Gifted students needs are important!!! Thursday, May 3, 2012 - San Bernardino City USD GATE Parent Advisory Council (PAC) meeting
Monday, May 14, 2012 - Fontana USD GATE PAC meeting
Monday, May 21, 2012 - Redlands USD GATE PAC meeting
See Events tab for more information. California Association for the Gifted (CAG) Elections!!!Don't forget to vote! Current CAG members should have received an email with voting instructions, if you did not receive the email contact CAG for more information at Phone: 916-988-3999. Voting closed May 10, 2012. Student Programs Summer Activities High School Concurrent Enrollment The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere. All of the site's resources are available to anyone. It doesn't matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology. The Khan Academy's materials and resources are available to you completely free of charge. Even highly able students sometimes overlook literary classics when they select books for recreational reading. Outstanding short stories, novels, and humorous essays both entertain and tell us a great deal about ourselves and our world, whether they were written yesterday or a hundred years ago. Thus, many classics are included, but these lists are by no means complete. We suggest that you balance your reading by sampling books from a number of categories. CTY Reading List: Grades 2-4 CTY Reading List: Grades 5-6 CTY Reading List: Grades 7-8 View the recorded Webinar View Event Recording on your top right hand corner UC Irvine Extension Proudly Presents the 4th Annual GATE Webinar Series FREE, expert-led series designed for educators, administrators, and parents of the gifted! February 1, 2012 Cluster Grouping: A Paradigm Shift in Gifted Education February 8, 2012 Understanding and Supporting the Emotional Aspects of Giftedness February 15, 2012 Identifying, Serving, and Enfranchising Our Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Gifted Students February 22, 2012 Technology Tools for GATE Teachers If you missed SBCUSD John Hopkins University CTY Center for Talented Youth informational meetingand would like to learn more, please attend a Free Online Webinar! A Webinar is a live video presentation delivered via the internet with two-way audio communication by phone. Participants will see the presentation slides on their own computer monitor and can ask questions anytime during the event. These are presentations that you "attend" from the comfort of your own home, office, or any location that has a computer and a telephone. CTY is pleased to offer Webinars for our families and schools on a variety of topics, including testing, research, educational planning, and CTY programs. More information can be found at: http://cty.jhu.edu/ts/webinars.html. CTY Application Party in Jurupa. You are more than welcome to attend (feel free to invite additional guests as well.) CTY offers academically gifted students the opportunity to interact with other talented students and to learn in a challenging and supportive environment. You are cordially invited to our CTY Application Party on: Tuesday, February 7th 2012 From 6pm-8pm At the Jurupa Unified School District Office, in the Board Room 4850 Pedley Road in Riverside, CA 92509 If you would like us to send you both 2012 CTY application and Financial Aid form in PDF format, contact TaGIE and write your request in "Questions or Comments" Section, to send it via email. Thank you, Abigail Medina  By Carol Bainbridge
The last thing most parents of gifted children think their kids will have problems with is homework. After all, gifted children are cognitively advanced and learn quickly. Unfortunately, for some parents, visions of straight A report cards are replaced by one or more (or even all) of these problems: •Child does homework, but doesn’t turn it in •Child says he did it at school, but didn’t •Child procrastinates •Child rushes and makes careless errors www.surveymonkey.com "I'm working on a New Book Project and would like your participation. We are looking for Black and Hispanic families who have raised gifted children and who would like to tell their own stories. Please take the survey titled 'CulturallyDiverseFamiliesofGiftedLrnrs'. Your feedback is important." By Nedra Sims Fears, President Precocious Kids Publishing and Independent Consultant and Dr. Joy Lawson Davis, Author: ‘Bright, Talented & Black: A guide for Families of African American Gifted Learners’ and Educational Consultant Reminder: 7:00pm at Kimberly Elementary School 5:30pm at BOE Board of Education, Community Room by Gifted Guru #5. Say, “You’re so smart, you should be able to do this.” This is the best way to get a gifted kid to shut down like a check-out line at Wal-mart on Christmas Eve. Also useful: “So you think you’re so smart…” ATTENTION ALL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTSScience and Engineering Apprenticeship Program There are several spots left, sign up today!!! SEAP places academically talented high school students with interest and ability in science and mathematics as apprentices in DoN laboratories for eight weeks during the summer. These students work with scientists and engineers who act as mentors. The program offers students a unique and positive experience in their fields of interest, thus encouraging them to pursue careers in science and engineering. Award Duration and Stipend •Participating students spend 8 weeks during the summer doing research. Program dates are fixed and cannot be changed. Students are expected to participate 8 continuous weeks. No vacation time is allowed during these eight weeks. •It is strongly recommended to apply to laboratories that are close to your residence. No travel/relocation allowance will be provided. •The stipend amount for students will be $3150 for the 8 weeks, which will be paid in two installments. Returning students will receive $3680 for the 8 weeks. The first check will be distributed in the middle of the internship and the second check at the end of the internship. California Adopted The Common Core Standards August 2, 2010 The adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in almost every state is cause for gifted education as a field to reflect on its role in supporting gifted and high-potential learners appropriately in the content areas. As a field, we have not always differentiated systematically in the core domains of learning, but rather focused on interdisciplinary concepts, higher-level skills, and problem-solving, typically across domains. With the new CCSS, it becomes critical for us to show how we are differentiating for gifted learners within a set of standards that are reasonably rigorous in each subject area. Additional links: California Department of Education Corestandards.org by Education Week The number of college-admissions officials using Facebook and other social-networking sites to learn more about applicants quadrupled over the past year, according to New York City-based Kaplan Test Prep, the test preparation division of Kaplan Inc.
The Joy and Challengeby SENG Articles and resources from SENG's National Parenting Gifted Children Week. Topics include identifying and recognizing giftedness, the challenges of parenting a gifted child, underachievement issues and twice exceptionalism, gifted minorities and gifted boys and girls, misdiagnosis and depression in gifted youth, advocacy, and parenting supports and resources. Download this book for FREE through either Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, or Amazon. by Washington Post What do Woody Allen and Steve Jobs have in common? Among other things (including brilliant, creative minds), they both hated school and were discipline problems. Allen once said, “I loathed every day and regret every moment I spent in school.” Jobs noted, “I was pretty bored at school and turned into a little tyrant.” Who are their counterparts today? How are schools dealing today with bright, creative students who are bored out of their minds in class? by Post and Courier Seventy-three percent of teachers agreed that "too often, the brightest students are bored and under-challenged in school; we are not giving them a sufficient chance to thrive." Seventy-seven percent of teachers agreed that "getting underachieving students to reach proficiency has become so important that the needs of advanced students take a back seat." Eighty-four percent of teachers say that in practice, differentiated instruction designed to reach advanced students is difficult to implement. Sixty-five percent of teachers reported that education courses and teacher preparation programs focused either very little or not at all on how to best teach academically advanced students. by Kristi Garrett The state Legislature makes provision for Gifted and Talented Education programs in California Education Code Section 52200. At last count, about 10 percent of California public school students participated. Many California school districts have a GATE program coordinator, and some have parent groups that support the programs in various ways. . But in recent years, school districts have been allowed to use the categorical funds they receive for GATE programs flexibly, and services for gifted students have in many cases been shelved or slashed significantly. The California Department of Education is no longer accepting or reviewing GATE applications, although local educational agencies with existing approved applications will continue to receive categorical funding. by Stephanie S. Tolan "Most parents greet the discovery that their child is not merely gifted but highly or profoundly gifted with a combination of pride, excitement, and fear. They may set out to find experts or books to help them cope with raising such a child, only to find that there are no real experts, only a couple of books, and very little understanding of extreme intellectual potential and how to develop it. This digest deals with some areas of concern and provides a few practical suggestions based on the experience of other parents and the modest amount of research available." | 
