Please join us on Tuesday, June 1st from 6:00pm to 8:00pm at the Maplewood Gym for the QUEST Open House and General Membership Meeting. ABC will be electing next year’s Board of Directors and approving next year’s budget. Following the brief meeting, we invite you to celebrate our children’s accomplishments with us. QUEST teachers will [...]
It’s the first Tuesday of the month, time for the next ABC Board Meeting. Our April Board Meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 6th, at 6:30 at the Chili Thai restaurant in Puyallup. Chili Thai is located at 3712 9th Street Southwest, across the street from Red Robin and Olive Garden. Everyone is welcome to [...]
SENG, a national organization dedicated to supporting the emotional needs of the gifted, offers monthly web seminars on topics of interest to parents and educators of highly capable children. The April Webinar is titled: Navigating the Quest for Help: Understanding Your Gifted Child’s Puzzling Behavior. The featured presenter is Dr. Steven Curtis, a Bainbridge Island [...]
This year’s Read-A-Thon begins on March 26th and ends on April 4th. Read-A-Thon envelopes starting going home with your students today. While we’re not able to send packets home with our second graders in the clustering for potential program, they are welcome and encouraged to participate. Pledge sheets are available for download below. The Read-A-Thon [...]
The Washington Coalition for Gifted Education sent along an excellent wrap up of the most recent legislative session: Gifted Education Day 2011 We are scheduling GEDay 2011 for Friday, February 11, 2011. The 2011 Legislative session will be a long session budget year and the formulas for school funding will have changed. We have no idea of [...]
The Network for Excellence in Washington Schools filed suit against the state for failing to adequately fund basic education. Today, they won that lawsuit. The basic findings were that: Court rules the State is failing to meet its “paramount duty”; orders Legislature to fully fund the actual cost of educating all children with ample, stable [...]
