Frisco ISD will partner with community volunteers to offer a mentoring program to middle and high school students. The program will be held from 9 a.m. to noon at the Student Opportunity Center, 6928 Maple Street, on select Saturdays during the 2013-2014 school year. Parents and guardians are invited to refer students in grades six through twelve for participation in the program. For more information, contact FISD Coordinator of Student Achievement and Involvement Larry Lewis at lewisl@friscoisd.org or 469-633-6594.

Julie B. Martin
Coordinator  of Gifted and Talented
Frisco ISD
469-633-6839
martinju@friscoisd.org

Parent Resources for the Gifted Child

• http://www.exquisite-minds.com/best-links-for-parents/
• http://www.sylviarimm.com/
• http://www.empoweringparents.com/
• Teaching kids social skills pays off in grades (article)
• Gifted and Perfectionism
• Challenging the Gifted Child at Home: Psychology as a Lesson
• Parent’s homework Dictionary: Helping Parents Understand Homework by Dan J. McLaughlin.  Download Free Worksheets at http://damand.com/. Password: BOB
• Top Ten Myths in Gifted Education (Video)
• Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG – Organization)
• Davidson Institute

Frisco Sage: SAGE is the acronym for Special And Gifted Education. Frisco SAGE is a committee of the Frisco Council of PTA’s, and we endeavor to provide education and support to families of diverse learners. SAGE Flowchart

Cindy Badon, Frisco ISD SAGE Chair
Email: friscosage@gmail.com

Metroplex Math Circle @ UTD

FISD PSAT/SAT Information: 
“Frisco Independent School District is excited to announce a partnership with The Princeton Review; as a Princeton Review Partner, ALL Frisco ISD students will receive a great discount off the SAT and ACT courses as well as the PSAT Clinics. These courses will run throughout the year and will be exclusive to Frisco ISD students. For more information, please go to the website: http://www.friscoisd.org/ly/schools/CTE/SATACTPSATPrep.htm

Arts and Technology Institute
A few technology teachers from FISD left last year to open their own after-school technology enrichment institute. For more information visit their website: http://www.myati.org/.

Exquisite Minds: Gifted and Creative Children: Exquisite Minds believes in the importance of cultivating creativity in bright and gifted children. We believe creativity can solve almost any problem; rather than why something can’t be done, it’s how it can be done. Exquisite Minds offers support to parents and educators who want to challenge children to find new and constructive ways to look at the world.

NPR
by ELIZABETH BLAIR
April 17, 2013

NPR
by JON HAMILTON
March 29, 2006

“It usually makes parents proud when their children reach a developmental milestone ahead of other kids. But when it comes to intelligence, researchers say, the smartest children appear to have brains that develop later.

‘What you would do is advise teachers, parents and everyone else to produce as stimulating a social and linguistic environment as possible,’he says.

That can be especially difficult for children who are extremely intelligent. Studies suggest that talented and gifted kids are more likely to drop out of school because of boredom.”

Full article: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5310107