ELO Parent Links & Resources

Useful Links	Resources & Documents
New Green Hills AEA TAG links	Personal Education Plan (2009)
Davidson Institute eNewsletter sign up	PEP Example (4th Grade)
Gifted Exchange Blog
AEA 11 Gifted Ed Resources
IA Department of Education - Gifted

Carma McLaren, the Gifted Education Consultant for AEA 13, regularly sends out useful emails pertaining to gifted education. Parents may 'sign-up' to be on her mailing list by sending Carma a message at cmclaren@ghaea.org. She is also a great resource for "all-things-gifted" so keep her contact information handy!

Red Oak Regional AEA Office
212 East Coolbaugh, Red Oak, IA 51566
712-623-2559 - 800-462-6034

cmclaren@aea13.org
Gifted Education Web Page: www.ghaea.org/giftededucation

(posted February 28, 2010)

Academic Acceleration

02/26/10 filed by The Exchange

http://iowapublicradio.org/programSpecific.php?typeId=35

Only eight states currently have a policy that specifically permits academic acceleration – defined as the practice of advancing students in subjects at a rate that matches their potential and places them ahead of where they would normally be in school. Iowa is not one of those eight states. Why not? Iowa is among the other states who leave it up to the school districts to develop the practice of acceleration. Nick Colangelo and other researchers at the University of Iowa Belin-Blank Center are at the forefront, nationally, in trying to conduct research to demonstrate the importance of having a national policy for academic acceleration so that gifted kids aren’t left behind. (46:30)

(posted November 9, 2009)
Gifted Exchange blog post today is a Q&A with Katharine Beals, the author of a new book Raising a Left-Brain Child in a Right-Brain World.

(posted November 2, 2009)
The Davidson Institute's bi-monthly update of new information and resources for gifted students, parents, and educators. Click here to view their October 2009 eNews-Update.