Meeting Minutes

OCTOBER 8, 2012 – TAL PARENT MEETING: Click here for meeting minutes

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011 – TAL PARENT MEETING: Click here for meeting minutes

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OCTOBER 26, 2011 – MATH ACCELERATION FORUM: TAL_math_forum_minutes

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AUGUST 15, 2011 – PARENT MEETING: Click here for meeting minutes

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JUNE 20, 2011 – PARENT MEETING: Click here for meeting minutes

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JUNE 6, 2011 – PARENT MEETING

Summer activities and goals of each group:
K-2 – Contact is
1.                  Summer reading club – Norman Peralta
1.                  Pick books from hoagiesgifted.com
2.                  Canoeing – Kristin Hoy
3.                  Geography Bee
4.                  Scavenger Hunt
5.                  Way to get into curriculum before school starts

Grades 3 / 4  – Contact is Pam Cooper
1.                  6/23 Cranbrook Starlabs at Farmington Public Library
2.                  Game night in July

Grades 5 / 6 – Contact is Dianne A.
1.                  Junior Great Books – meet once a week during the summer to
continue JGB throughout the year
2.                  Math Olympiad

Grades 7 / 8 –
1.                  Instant Challenges from Destination Imagination
2.                  Write your own stories and read to the group and group gives
feedback (kind critiques)

Grades 9 – 12
1.                  Social at Chris Greig’s home
2.                  Workshops

Overall
1.                  Toastmasters Club
2.                  Good Reads
3.                  Noodle – website to communicate through

Next meeting is 6/20 at 7pm at Lanigan Elementary School.

We will have a full group social on 6/24 at Heritage Park.
The Splash Bash will start at 6pm and then there will be the movie How to Train
Your Dragon.

Attachments:

Grade 7/8 Breakout Group Notes

Grade K-2 Breakout Group Notes

MAY 31, 2011 – FIRST MEETING

• Mission of group / purpose
  ·         Gifted/accelerated program at middle school level
  ·         Increase expectations for accelerated students in multiple subjects
  ·         Strength in numbers to bring attention to district that we are missing
  some students’ needs
  ·         Begin early, include K-12
  ·         Critical thinking
  ·         Not more work, but more challenging work
  ·         Educate our educators
  ·         Meet social and emotional needs – both for peers and teachers
  ·         Slow down district’s emphasis on mentoring/teaching role of gifted
  kids
  ·         Take advantage of the large scale of grade 5/6 schools
  ·         Teach educators about the unique behavioral challenges of gifted kids
  ·         How to know if child is gifted
  ·         Educating parents to recognize giftedness
  ·         Keep gifted kids in FPS in lieu of private schools
  ·         Share information among parents
  ·         Standard program across district
  ·         Peer to peer opportunities for accelerated students
  Tina’s list of objectives (off top of head)
  ·         Improve curriculum
  ·         Share information
  ·         Social/emotional needs
  ·         Advocacy
  ·         Expanded learning in school
  Other topics discussed
  ·         Tina wants a brochure available to the schools’ general public before
  the end of the school year (not clear on key messages of brochure – PC)
  ·         Jean Becker of MAGE suggested approaching educators with the premise,
  “If you put a kid with a 100 IQ in a special ed class with kids of 70 IQ, what
  behavior issues would you face?  The same issues arise when you put a child with
  a 130 IQ in a class of 100 IQ kids.”
  ·         Need to identify what aspects of Highmeadow’s programs we want in
  other schools
• May do “field trip” programs over the summer.  Some ideas:
  o   Free concerts in Riley/Heritage park
  o   Art museum
  o   Cranbrook
  o   Detroit Science Center

• Tina met with Dr. Catherine Cost from FPS; Dr. Cost says she is “open”
  to gifted education
• Next meeting
  ·         Monday, June 6 – 7 pm at Lanigan Elementary