Brandee Eburn posted an article on the CCE Parents Group Yahoo Group about a bill in the Florida legislature to hold school districts accountable for spending funds allocated to gifted education on appropriate programs. In summary, legislators feel some districts are not spending funds allocated for gifted programs on gifted students because the funds are provided as a lump sum for special education. Legislators also want to mandate gifted screening for all students.

The Stanford Educational Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY), a computer-based learning program originated for gifted learners, is being tried in the regular classrooms of Oakland, California, with much success. EPGY, teaches concepts by tailoring itself to the needs of each student. As described at their official website, EPGY is described as follows:

We’ve added a few links to our Resource Links to some excellent online resources developed by the parents and staff associated with the PACE program at The Webster School in St. Augustine.

There is a Webster PACE Parents website, a Webster PACE Parents Brochure, and the Webster School PACE Website, with links to some great pages maintained by the teachers.

The American Association for Gifted Children is associated with Duke University, and advocates for gifted children through gifted education research, promotion of gifted education, and the award of scholarships. The AAGC publishes Working Papers to disseminate research information to parents and educators of the gifted. Additionally, there is a list of articles and resources of interest to the parents of gifted children in St. Johns County. These include:…

How can this website best add value to gifted education in St. Johns County?

We would like to develop a roadmap to guide the development of this website. We’ve begun by collecting information and resources, and we’ll continue to add to this library, as well as attempt to aggregate the Events calendars of interest to the gifted-student community. Other potential directions for this site include:

Thank you for visiting St. Johns Gifted. Please read our About page to understand the purpose of the site. If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!CCE PACE PASS Meeting will be held in the PACE Portable #6 on 11/29/2007 at 6:30 p.m.  All parents of PACE/Gifted […]

Donate books the the PACE library, and PACE sponsors “Dreams Come True” fundraiser at PTO meeting.

Brandee posted a message to the CCE PACE Yahoo Group on 10/2 reviewing the hot topics from the 9/13 PASS meeting. Topics covered included: