Pflugerville Independent School District

 Information and Events To Support Gifted Learners

PfISD will communicate with parents and encourages parent participation in these ways:

• District Gifted and Talented program website 
• Course guides and choice sheets
• Communication with parents during campus open house nights
• Parent Newsletters - Elementary
• Parent Information Presentations - available online and at campus presentations
• Elemenatary Product Fair at campuses to allow students opportunity to display their research projects to parents and other interested parties

In District Opportunities:

1. PAGE - Parent Advisory for Gifted Education:  At least one parent per feeder pattern (preferably two - one elementary and one secondary) will be selected to serve on a district advisory group.  The number of parents selected should not exceed 20.

2. SENG

Links To Explore:

• Davidson's Institute for the Gifted
• National Research Center for Gifted and Talented
• Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented
• National Association for Gifted Children
• Twitter gtchat
• Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted
• Differentiation
  
  

Selected articles from Sylvia Rimm on Raising Kids: A Newsletter to Help Parents and Teachers

• Solving the Mysterious Underachievement Problem
• How to Parent so Children will Learn 
• Rimm's Laws of Achievement
• Why Do Bright Children Underachieve?
• What's Wrong with Perfect?