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Steamboat Springs presents year‑end gifted education report; district to shift staffing and review screeners
Summary
Director Kristen Atwood told the board the district has 264 identified gifted secondary students and will make gifted staff fully student‑facing next year; the presentation outlined cluster grouping methods, screener evaluation (CogAT vs. Naglieri) and plans for parent engagement and a state monitoring audit next year.
Kristen Atwood, the district’s director of Exceptional Student Services, presented a year‑end report on gifted education June 16 and described immediate staffing and screening changes the district plans for 2025–26.
Atwood said the district currently counts 264 gifted secondary students, with 160 at Steamboat Springs High School, 78 at the middle‑school level, 23 at Sleeping Giant Middle School and two at Yampa Valley High School. To increase student‑facing supports, the district will move to make all four gifted‑education FTE positions student facing next year and will place the gifted coordinator at…
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