The Schuylkill County Gifted Network is a collaborative effort of district representatives and the IU Education Services Department to work on improving the gifted education throughout the SchuylkillCounty schools.

• Gifted Education Press Issues

• Gifted Facilitated Self-Assessment (Word document)

• Materials from the March 13th Gifted Forum

  • An Introduction in Understanding Gifted Programming And Facilitated Self-Assessment by Dr. David L. Mason

    • PDF Document

    • PowerPoint 2007 presentation

  • Characteristics of the Gifted and Talented

  • Smart or Gifted?  Ways to Tell

  • Gifted Student and Bright Student: What's the Difference?

  • Gifted Education - It Looks Like a Duck

• Resources

  • Critical and Integrative Thinking Rubric
    This rubric is for college level work, but it is adaptable and useful in many content areas/grade levels.  This link shows the short form, followed by the long form.

  • Gifted Guidelines (August 2010)

  • Gifted Resources Within the Standards Aligned System

  • Goals and SDI that might be used for incoming 7th graders

  • GOAL Progress Report

  • Notice of Parental Rights (latest version)

  • Quarterly GIEP Progress Monitoring

  • Sample GIEP

  • Sample GIEP Goals

  • What To Do With the Gifted Few?: A SMART Approach
    PowerPoint 2003 presentation

For more information please contact Dr. Evelyn Wassel, Supervisor of Professional Development, (wasse@iu29.org),(570) 544-9131 Ext. 1214.