DCSD Gifted Education News
November 2015
Douglas County School District Gifted Education
Email: misty.burkhart@dcsdk12.org
Website: https://www.dcsdk12.org/gifted-and-talented
Location: 620 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, CO, United States
Phone: (303)387-0145
November Update from the DCSD Office of Gifted Education
Welcome to the beginning of the holiday season!
Although this is a time for celebration, giving thanks, and making memories, we know that this time may trigger stress in both adults and children. Please see the following resources for some possible ways to support your gifted children through the holidays:
Parenting Gifted Students Through the Holidays - SENG
Reducing Holiday Stress - Exquisite Minds
Managing Your Child's Stress During the Holidays - Raising Lifelong Learners
A Recipe for a Peaceful Holiday Season - SENG
Please remember that students may be referred for identification for gifted programming at any time by parents, teachers, support staff or themselves! Please visit our website HERE and look under the tab labeled: Who We Serve for more detailed information.
If you have questions about gifted identification or programming, please contact the gifted education facilitator at your child's school.
Best regards!
Natasha Straayer
The Many Faces of the Gifted
Gifted and talented students are those students between the ages of four and twenty-one whose abilities, talents, and potential for accomplishment are so exceptional or developmentally advanced that they require special provisions to meet their educational programming needs. Gifted students include students with disabilities (i.e. twice exceptional) and students with exceptional abilities or potential from all socio-economic and ethnic, cultural populations. Gifted students are capable of high performance, exceptional production, or exceptional learning behavior by virtue of any or a combination of these areas:
- General or Specific Intellectual Ability
- Specific Academic Aptitude
- Creative or Productive Thinking
- Leadership Abilities
- Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Musical or Psychomotor Abilities
Center for Bright Kids
World Affairs Challenge
We call youth the next generation of leaders, yet young people are already creating significant change of the world. WAC youth in 2016 and beyond will harness their passion and skills to challenge global poverty. We are excited to announce WAC themes for next three years - Smart Villages, Smart Cities, Smart Planet. Click here to get involved!
Colorado Math Circle
Click HERE for more information and/or to join!
​Destination Imagination
Destination Imagination is an international creative problem-solving competition with challenges heavily anchored in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics. Last year DCSD Gifted Education Funds supported over 75 teams of Kindergarten through High School students with ten teams earning an invitation to Global Finals. To learn more about how to support DI teams at your school please contact:
Connie Ackerman
Douglas County Destination Imagination Coordinator
303-688-4496
Hoagies Blog Hop: Ages & Stages of Giftedness
Giftedness looks unique across the lifespan, yet most of what you find on the subject addresses the K-12 school years. But are we any less gifted as toddlers? As adults? As parents? As senior citizens? Giftedness affects every part of our human development. Join us to explore those ages and stages!
Institute for the Development of Gifted Education Conference (IDGE Conference)
February 3rd at the University of Denver
HERE is the website for additional information
Keynote:
Dr. James Delisle has worked on behalf of gifted children and teens for more than three decades. Dr. Delisle was a professor of education at Kent State University (Ohio) for 25 years and was selected by faculty and students there as a "Distinguished Professor." He is the author of 18 books, including his newest Dumbing Down America: The War on Our Nation's Brightest Young Minds and his bestselling Parenting Gifted Kids and The Gifted Teen Survival Guide.