Gifted Jaguars and Eagles

Both JHS and KHS will have their AP registration meetings this week in advisory.  JHS link:  https://sites.google.com/a/isd271.org/jefferson-ap-exams/

2019 National Merit Finalists are: Charles Maki* Ryan Martz* Amelia Miller Isabella Phan* Emily Wammer * are DAHS graduates

A great district-college collaboration found in Bloomington Joe Nathan  Feb 1, 2019 “This is it!” That’s how Tuan Dinh, a 15-year-old 10th-grader in Bloomington, describes his reaction when he heard about the opportunity to take courses as a ninth-grader on the Normandale Community College campus. Conversations with students, parents and educators over two weeks in January convinced me that Tuan is right.  The Bloomington Public Schools and Normandale College collaboration, called Dimensions Academy, isn’t the only way to serve gifted students well. But it is a great model.  Now in its fifth year, the program serves about 25 ninth- and 25 10th-graders, offering an advanced math and science class in the morning. Students return to their high school in the afternoon. According to Andrew Kubas, Bloomington Public Schools executive director of Learning and Teaching, the average Dimensions Academy student has earned 67 college credits before high school graduation, worth more than