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Steamboat Springs board hears plan to expand student-facing gifted-education staff, refine identification
Summary
District director of exceptional student services reported staffing shifts, identification changes and expanded parent engagement for the district’s gifted program; board members pressed for teacher training and attention to twice-exceptional students.
Kristen Atwood, director of exceptional student services for Steamboat Springs School District No. Re 2, told the school board on June 16 that the district will shift to having all four gifted-education staff members be student facing next year and will move the gifted coordinator role to the middle school to support the transition from fifth to sixth grade.
Atwood said the district currently identifies 264 secondary students as gifted, including 78 in middle school, 23 at Sleeping Giant Middle School, 160 at Steamboat Springs High School and 2 at Yampa Valley High School. "So we've moved from 4 FTE, 3.5 of that 4 FTE being student facing, to now next year all 4 staff members will be student facing," she said.
The staffing change is part of a broader push to refine identification and services. Atwood described the identification process as beginning with "parent and…
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