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!Taking a tour of the various web pages for gifted services in St. Johns County, and I’m struck by how […]

As promised in yesterday’s post about potential changes to PACE in St. Johns County, we’ll provide an analysis of our efforts to communicate and promote gifted education in St. Johns County.
First, you will notice a pretty big change in the website - we decided to do an overhaul to bring to the home page the […]

A meeting was held at Cunningham Creek Elementary, previously scheduled by the CCE PACE PASS group, to address rumors and concerns about upcoming changes to PACE in St. Johns County School District. Administrators from CCE and Ms. Martha Mickler, Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Learning were in attendance. Following are key points from the meeting:

Those who are not members of the CCE PACE PASS message board may not be aware of the most recent issue associated with gifted education in St. Johns County.

The principals of the elementary schools have apparently made the decision that PACE will no longer be supported as a cluster program, and will instead move back to each neighborhood school. What is not clear at this point is why this decision has been made (desire to retain high-achieving students for FCAT/NCLB statistics?), and if the decision is final and binding. There are a number of issues associated with this decision: