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Board adopts Onslow County Schools AIG gifted strategic plan for 2025–2028
Summary
The Onslow County Board of Education approved the district's 2025–2028 AIG (Academically or Intellectually Gifted) strategic plan, which aligns gifted services with district goals and outlines staffing and identification changes.
The Onslow County Board of Education approved the district's academically or intellectually gifted (AIG) strategic plan for 2025'1028.
Dr. Susan Elder, assistant director for gifted services, presented the plan and described its themes of alignment, intentionality and growth. She said the district will emphasize a universal cognitive screening in third grade, realign secondary gifted staffing to allow specialists to follow students from sixth through ninth grade in some cases, and continue partnerships and professional learning to expand gifted services.
Dr. Elder told the board that nearly 90% of the state AIG funds the district receives currently pay for salaries and benefits for 17 gifted specialists; the remaining 10–11% covers supplies, a summer gifted camp, enrichment activities and support for about 10 teachers per year to take four graduate courses toward gifted licensure. She also provided identification headcounts from 2016 (405 elementary, 753 middle, 1,036 high school) and said those numbers have risen.
Dr. Elder said the plan responds to North Carolina's AIG program standards (six standards and 43 practices) and must be submitted to the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. After brief board discussion and a motion to approve, the board voted in favor by voice.
Board members asked no substantive questions on the record; Dr. Elder said the plan will be posted on the district and NCDPI websites and that the district will continue to rebuild its parent advisory panel and grow partnerships with higher-education and community partners.
