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Taking a tour of the various web pages for gifted services in St. Johns County, and I’m struck by how several have improved. Here’s a quick review:
Cunningham Creek’s PACE website is really looking great! There are links to the teacher’s pages as well as the forms parents need to get their children into CCE’s full-time […]

In case it was missed, there is a brochure for PACE put together by Janet Noack. The brochure will be sent home in the Tuesday folders for students at Cunningham Creek Elementary. While created for CCE, the process will be the same for all PACE-eligible students in the district so if you’d like a succinct […]

A list of information related to gifted services in the state of Florida, including public and private gifted schools. Also information about laws and funding for the state of Florida. Compiled by the Davidson Institute.

Gifted students interested in a challenging academic summer program should consider attending the THINK Summer Institute on the campus of the University of Nevada, Reno. This intense three-week residential summer program offers 60 exceptionally gifted 13- to 16-year-old students the opportunity to earn up to seven transferable college credits. You can find more information and an application at the Davidson Institute Think Institute webpage.

Support Group for parents/advocates of Special Needs students in Elementary, Middle and High Schools.  Included are ESE, Gifted and Twice Exceptional students.  They are having their first meeting November 27, 2007 at Bartram Trail Library in the Conference Room.  Greet and Meet at 6:30 p.m. and Meeting at 7:00-8:45 p.m.  Please contact Beth Ohm for more information […]

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:…