The Gifted and Talented department is focused on providing equitable, high impact identification and programming for gifted learners to thrive.
The Exceptional Children’s Educational Act (ECEA) defines gifted children as:
Those persons between the ages of four and twenty-one whose aptitude or competence in abilities, talents, and potential for accomplishment in one or more domains are so exceptional or developmentally advanced that they require special provisions to meet their educational programming needs. Gifted children are hereafter referred to as gifted students. Children under five who are gifted may also be provided with early childhood special educational services. Gifted students include gifted students with disabilities (i.e. twice exceptional) and students with exceptional abilities or potential from all socio-economic, ethnic, and cultural populations. Gifted students are capable of high performance, exceptional production, or exceptional learning behavior by virtue of any or a combination of these areas of giftedness:
South High School has a Gifted and Talented (GT) Itinerant Teacher/Coordinator, Elayna Middlebrooks. Each GT student will be able to have an Advanced Learning Plan (ALP) as well as access to the GT Teacher at South.
Contact Ms. Middlebrooks here: elayna_middlebrooks@dpsk12.net.
To schedule an appointment with Ms. Middlebrooks click on this link: