Special Programs / Parent and Community Involvement

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. Duke TIP

Parents and students can learn more by visiting: http://tip.duke.edu/. Duke Tip Program Opportunities to Explore.

2. 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.

3. SENG

Parents are encouraged to lead SENG-Model Parent support groups. To learn more about this opportunity visit the SENG webpage.

Out of District Opportunities:

Join Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented (TAGT)

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?

Special Programs

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

In District Opportunities:1. Duke TIP

3. SENG

Links To Explore:

In District Opportunities:

1. Duke TIP