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Cuyahoga Falls presents early gains in new gifted program, plans family events and assessments
Summary
District gifted intervention specialist reported enrollment and new activities for gifted learners, including honors ELA sections, arts residencies, Power of the Pen competitors advancing to regionals, a 24-math initiative and 424 written education plans issued.
Heather, the districtgifted intervention specialist, told the Cuyahoga Falls Board of Education on Feb. 26 that the districthas quickly expanded services for advanced learners and is rolling out family- and school-level events to sustain that work.
The specialist said the district reintroduced honors ELA for grades 6'2, with "four sections of eighth grade, three sections of seventh grade, three sections of sixth grade for a total of 202 enrolled students in honors ELA classes." She said the program mixes formally-identified gifted students and other high achievers using a rubric that draws on multiple data points.
The expansion aims to add rigor and spread successful curriculum pieces into general education classes, the specialist said, while listing recent enrichment activities and next steps.
The nut graf: The presentation described concrete programming and outreach the district says is already…
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