Gifted Jaguars and Eagles

I wanted to take this time to tell you that I have stepped down as the high school gifted and talented coordinator for next fall. I have worked with the GT dept since 2012 and I have loved growing as a teacher by working with this departement, GT students and their families. I am really excited that I was a part of expanding our program to both high schools and to junior year. This pandemic has been hard on all of us and I have decided to return to the classroom full time next year. I will continue to teach the DA 9 and 10 social studies classes at Kennedy. Your students will be in great hands! Lisa Kiner, who is a DA teacher at OGMS, will be our new high school GT coordinator. She has a lot of experience as a teacher and as a parent which will help her serve our students well! Please welcome Lisa in the fall into this new role. I will just be an email away so please always feel like you can reach out! I hope your school year is wrapping up well and that you'll have a

ON May 23rd 41 Dimensions Academy 9th graders (from both the STEM and Humanities programs) went on a campus visit and tour to the University of MN Twin Cities. Students had the opportunity to ask questions and to start thinking about what they want in a college and in what colleges are looking for in applicants. I will take the sophomores to Macalester in June. We have historically done campus visits but because of COVID this was our first one in a long time!

In May I'll be taking DA students to the U of M and to Macalester. One of my goals is to help them think about what types of questions to ask on a tour. I thought this article was helpful: https://grownandflown.com/14-best-questions-to-ask-on-campus-tours/?utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2nnhj6RsZ34zZU-Cq2RtSY9iKUpIO2wweCl4-4pOhpku7Q_mkh5Yh3iq8

A lot of juniors are thinking about upcoming college visits and seniors are in the process of deciding their plans for next year. I found think article very interesting: https://grownandflown.com/what-students-should-look-for-choosing-college/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow&fbclid=IwAR3V-uf1Kgqn-hQhg04yhUISlxyoILpIPBSfgIKQvK7uYjF31vwzij1zJlM