Questions? E-mail us! info@lwsdgeac.org
Stop by a meeting to meet other Quest parents and to learn more about Quest and how it fits into the Lake Washington School District! All meetings begin at 6:30 p.m. and are held at the Lake Washington School District Resource Center (Redmond Town Center)
No more meetings until September 2010.
Have a safe and fun summer!
Upcoming Talks
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
7:00PM to 9:00PM
Redmond High School Performing Arts Center
(17272 N.E. 104th Avenue, Redmond)
Eleven Key Parenting Issues
Presented by Dr. James Webb
Eleven issues are common concerns for parents of gifted children -- from tots to teens:
♦ Communication and relationships
♦ Motivation and underachievement
♦ Discipline, power struggles, self-management
♦ Intensity, stress and perfectionism
♦ Acquaintances, friends and peers
♦ Siblings and only children
♦ Values, traditions and uniqueness
♦ Idealism, unhappiness, and depression
♦ Complexities of modern parenting
♦ Misdiagnosis
♦ Finding a good educational fit
Information will be given about each, along with how four major factors – range of ability, asynchronous development, over excitabilities, and thinking styles – influence these issues.
James T. Webb, Ph.D. has been recognized as one of the 25 most influential psychologists in gifted education. In 1981, he established SENG (Supporting Emotional Needs of Gifted), a national non-profit organization with programs that support gifted individuals and the parents, educators and health professionals that support them. He is the lead author of five books including A Parent’s Guide to Gifted Children and Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults.
♦ This is a FREE event! There is no RSVP required. ♦
Sponsored by Northwest Gifted Child Association & Social & Emotional Needs of Gifted (SENG - www.SENGifted.org)
Hosted by Lake Washington School District and the Gifted Education Advisory Council (GEAC)
For questions contact Pauline Bowie ♦(206) 715-5261 ♦ Pauline@RaisingTheGifted.com
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2010 CONFERENCE
Hilton Hotel
Bellevue, Washington
the evening of October 15th & all day October 16th! SAVE THE DATE!
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The 2010 WAETAG Conference will feature presentations from national & state experts on topics and exhibits of interest to educators and parents of gifted students . . .
Call for Presenters (download form at www.waetag.org)
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Featured Speaker
Michael Clay-Thompson
MICHAEL THOMPSON, who, through his teaching, his books and presentations, has inspired thousands of students and educators with a new love of language and literature, was a classroom teacher, middle school head and academic, over a period of thirty years. He is now a full-time author and consultant, and an acclaimed speaker and workshop presenter. Michael is the author of thirty books of language arts for gifted children, including The Word Within the Word series, Caesar’s English, and The Magic Lens series.
He has served on the Board of Directors of the National Association for Gifted Children and is an online instructor in Language Arts for the Northwestern University Gifted Learning Links program . He has been a faculty member of the Wake Forest University Summer Institute for Gifted Education, the University of North Carolina/Charlotte Summer institute for Gifted Education and The Cullowhee Experience. He has served on the Board of Directors for the North Carolina Association of Gifted & Talented and on the regional Board of Advisors to the North Carolina/South Carolina Future Problem Solving Program. He has been consultant to the Center for Gifted Education at the College of William and Mary, consultant and Lead Scholar for the National Javits Project for Language Arts, and President of the Indiana Gifted Association.
Register online at www.waetag.org
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JOIN GEAC!
GEAC strives to be representative for all 10 Quest school sites, including full-time, enrichment pull-out and junior high Quest programs as well as gifted education both before and beyond elementary and junior high school. We welcome parents of gifted children outside the program as well as Quest Alums.
Over the last 5 years, GEAC has contributed nearly $48,000 directly to QUEST classrooms, for teachers to use toward special projects, field trips, training, books, cameras, kits/materials/supplies, or other needs they have. Last school year, over $8,000 was made available to fund grant applications. These efforts are made possible only through the generous donation of time and dollars from our membership, with matching and grant support from local companies like Microsoft, Fred Meyer, and Boeing. This school year our goal is to provide $9,000 in grants, and your financial support is very important in helping to reach that goal. Please consider joining us and helping further our children’s education. Your annual donation will help us continue to support Quest classrooms and provide parent education support. Enrollment Form.doc
If you work for a company which provides matching gifts, please remeber to fill out your form. GEAC is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Boeing and Microsoft employees can find forms as listed below:
www.boeing.com/companyoffices/aboutus/community/gift_matching.html
Microsoft Employees - visit http://give on your internal site
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Welcome to the GEAC website! Our mission is to provide Outreach, Enhancement and Advocacy support for the students, teachers, parents and staff associated with the LWSD highly capable learning programs. We are focused on expanding educational opportunities for students through direct classroom support, and for parents through parenting classes, educational forums, and improved communications. We are also working to raise awareness of state and national gifted learning professional organizations and legislative issues. Check out a fabulous piece of research work on Highly Capable professional organizations, compiled by Raj Paul, our former President-elect. GEAC Advocacy Document