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NEWS AND UPCOMING EVENTS NEXT APP TASK FORCE MEETING: Thursday, June 10 at Lowell The Lowell Elementary principal will be Julie Breidenbach. Julie has been a principal for 3 years at View Ridge and has 20 years of experience in education. She taught elementary school for 9 years and spent 7 years teaching middle school math. She has a Special Education endorsement and experience with Gifted Education. View Ridge has a Spectrum program, so she has experience as an administrator in a school with a gifted program. Julie is excited about coming to Lowell, and sees this as a great opportunity.
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Co-Chairs:
Jim Corcoran
Courtney Jelaco
APP Task Force Chair:
Jane Fellner
SSD Administration:
June Rimmer
School Board Members:
Mary Bass
Brita Butler-Wall
Darlene Flynn
Jan Kumasaka
Dick Lilly
Sally Soriano
Irene StewartLinks Section
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Talented and Gifted Education Resources
- Local Information
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Washington Association of Educators of the Talented and Gifted (WAETAG)
- Washington Coalition for Gifted Education
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Washington Association of Educators of the Talented and Gifted (WAETAG)
- K-12 Education and Alternatives
- EPGY (Educational Program for Gifted Youth)
- The EPGY program from Stanford University offers accredited course-work at all grade levels via a CDROM-based distance learning program. The materials are also available for independent or home-study programs.
- CTY (Center for Talented Youth)
- The CTY at Johns Hopkins University operates a national talent search to find students eligible for a wide range of summer programs and distance learning options.
- Matteo Ricci College
- Matteo Ricci College at Seattle University is the 3-year university phase of an program that integrates high school and university level studies into 6 years.
- NSA (National Scholars Academy)
- The National Scholars Academy (NSA) is a one-week residential summer program for gifted students at The University of Iowa.
- The Early Experience Program at the University of Denver
- University level courses for high school students.
- Gifted and Talented (TAG) Resources Home Page
- Additional programs and contact information
- Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted
- Hoagiesgifted.org
- Gifted education issues for parents, teachers, and students.
- Summer Programs
- Center for Talented Youth (CTY)
- The CTY at Johns Hopkins University has a summer program of classes for grades 7 and up, and another program for younger students
- The Academic Talent Development Program at the University of California Berkeley
- ATDP offers challenging summer classes for highly motivated students who have completed grades K-6 (Elementary Division) and 7-11 (Secondary Division).
- The Robinson Center at the University of Washington
- The Robinson Center for Young Scholars offers the Summer Stretch Program for grades 7-9 and the Summer Challenge Program for grades 5+6
- Satori Camp
- Held at Eastern Washington University for High School students ages 13-18.
- College Early Entrance Pathways
- The Robinson Center for Young Scholars
- The Robinson Center at the University of Washington administers a program through which students 14 and under attend one year of "Transition School" followed by admission into an "Early Entrance Program" at the UW. The Center was written up in University Week
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- National Academy of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering (NAASE)
- The NAASE is an early entrance program at the University of Iowa. NAASW accepts students who have completed course work equivalent to the junior year in high school.
- Simon's Rock College of Bard
- Simon's Rock College of Bard is a college of the liberal arts and sciences designed expressly for students of high school age. Most students enter Simon's Rock after completing 10th or 11th grade, and follow programs leading to the Associate in Arts or Bachelor of Arts degrees in liberal arts.
- Math & Science
- The Cornell Theory Center Math and Science Gateway
- Many links to resources for students, parents, and teachers
- ENC Online
- Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education.
A very large collection of curriculum resources for K-12
teachers, sponsored by the US Dept of Education. Includes
many links to on-line curricula and distance learning sites.
- Math puzzles and amusements
- MathCounts
- Annual local/state/national math competition for middle schools.
The web site has a Problem of the Week to test your brain against. - NRICH Online Maths Club
- Hosted by the University of Cambridge; contains puzzle pages, chat rooms for kids working on maths games, puzzles, LOGO programming, and much other stuff.
- Next Wave
Science (AAAS Journal) web site
- Physics Central
- An educational site aimed at high-school level and up, maintained by the American Physical Society (APS).
- John Kimball's Biology Pages
- On-line version of Kimball's undergraduate text Biology, with updates and commentary on biology in the news, and links to other biology sites.
- How your parents learned science
- On-line recordings from the six wonderful "Singing Science" LPs produced in the late 1950s / early 1960s by Hy Zaret and Lou Singer. Kids - ask your parents if they remember these!
- Reports
- Beyond Bio 101: The Transformation of Undergraduate Biology Education
- A report on the current state of Biology education prepared by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
- National Academies Publications on science education
