An Open Letter: A Progress Report to Parents
Hello and Happy New Year!
We are sending this Progress Report because of your interest in iGifted School. This is the first of a series of newsletters about the school and our programs. We hope you find it interesting and informative.
2012 was an exciting year for us. Organizationally we have begun to develop a Board of Directors, attract interest from outside leaders in the field of Gifted Education, and we received approval from the IRS which will allow us to raise funds and grow our programs. Educationally we introduced our Debate Club, and grew it through a test of our Learning to Debate Series, and then a further test in an Advanced Debate Group where students worked on how to better build arguments and present speeches in a competitive environment. Our Math Club has been in a hiatus due to a lack of resources, but we have had and are continuing to have discussions about what prominent mathematics professionals think we may be able to due to deliver a world class program in the near future.
0 comments - Posted by Jim O'Reilley at 1:20 PM - Categories: Board of Directors | Methodologies | Parents
When I first started thinking about Gifted education five years ago I was frankly amazed at the lack of resources being targeted towards this group of youngsters. The No Child Left Behind legislation had been in existence for a few years and most of the nation’s educators were thinking about improving the academic performance of the lower performers in order to get High School graduation rates up. My research turned up a pervasive egalitarian notion when it comes to the education of Gifted students, and to some extent a kind of a negative elitist view. To me it was all crazy and wrongheaded!
