NEWS
&
meeting dates
Welcome back 2010-1011!
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Pull Out Program gets Press
May 12, 2010
Front page: Districts find
ways to fund field trips
Our Zenith children
were featured in a front page article in the News Herald. The article
highlights the good work that our organization can provide and the great
volunteer effort of the active parents that make it happen for our kid's
minds. NH
Article
Market Day
Help Needed
Any dads out there willing to spend an hour, once a month,
to unload the Market Day truck??? Help is needed from 4-5pm, one
Wednesday a month. We'll feed you pizza for dinner and you'll get your
work out in for the evening!! One man, two is better. Please call
440-975-9596 Joyce Hribar Fiebig or email.
Market Day raises thousands $ that aid our children each year, but we can lose
it if we don't get enough involvement.
THANK YOU!
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ATTENTION
WEAGT VOLUNTEERS
Saturdays!!!!.
For
info or to RSVP call Sandy
@ 440-942-8160 or 440-350-5239 or email Sandy
I'll
be spyin' you in my pirate glass! ARGH
Recent articles:
Report
finds wide disparities in gifted education AP Story
Is
American Education Neglecting Gifted Children? The Journal
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Save
the Date: 
32nd
Annual
Auction on February 27, 2010.
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Next
general meeting:
Important dates for 2009-2010 school year include:
General meetings:
December 10,
January 19, February 11, March 16, April 22 and May 13.
Special Events
: 32nd
Annual
Auction on February 27, 2010. See
you there!
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WEAGT is a parent
group that supports gifted education in the Willoughby–Eastlake school
district, primarily through the Zenith program. It provides funds for
technology purchases as well as programs and materials for enrichment and
additional field trips. WEAGT is a valuable resource for parents to learn
about raising gifted children. Please take the time to get involved in the
organization that supports the enrichment of the Zenith classrooms.
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Welcome
Picnic Date is Sunday, September 20th from 3:00pm – 6:00pm at Campbell
Park
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WEAGT / PTA at Washington Elementary
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Welcome
Back Wildcats!!!
WEAGT is preparing for the 2009-2010 school year. We welcome all
parents to join us at monthly meetings and events to discuss our involvement
in the Zenith program. Meetings and events are scheduled at 7pm at
Washington Elementary's Library on the following dates:
Sept 10 Thursday
Sept 20 Sunday 3-6pm WEAGT Family Welcome Picnic -Campbell
Park, Willoughby Hills
Oct 8 Thursday
Nov 12 Thursday
Dec 10 Thursday
Jan 19 Tuesday
Feb 11 Thursday
Feb 27 Saturday Annual Auction at The Patrician Party Center
Mar 16 Tuesday
April 22 Thursday
May 13 Thursday CANCELLED
Please feel free to contact our officers with any questions you may have:
Sue Luck, President 440/944-7585
Tonya
Mihalek, Vice President
Ryan
Cummins, Treasurer
Joyce
Hribar Fiebig, Secretary
Zenith Enrichment Home Page from Amy Harker, Zenith
Coordinator and the W-E School District.
The
Zenith Program Homepage touts the mission to provide appropriate
educational alternatives and challenges that will allow children who are
high-ability learners to develop into creative, intelligent, capable,
productive, and compassionate human beings. The gifted and talented
enrichment programs are focused on building each child's strengths to
encourage his/her potential for lifelong learning. LINK
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No-hovering zone: Some parents buck the
trend of helping kids do everything
PD
Article 4/14/08
PD
1/23/08 article on Gifted (link
to Cleveland.com)
Plain Dealer Editorial 1/24/08:
Ohio's gifted students deserve an education
Ohio's education leaders must devote more resources to
keeping academically advanced students on a fast pace
Ohio's public schools are frittering away
a precious natural resource by failing to provide services to many gifted
students. That is simply unacceptable in a state that desperately needs a
well-educated home-grown work force to boost its economy and remain
competitive.
Ohio must join the 31 states that require
school districts to provide education geared to gifted students.
Ohio Department of Education
Superintendent Susan Tave Zelman says she is considering changes to
improve public schools' services to gifted children.
Good, because the colossal failure to
educate the best and the brightest is evident from the numbers. In
2006-07, Ohio tagged almost 290,000 students as gifted, but only 75,496
actually got special classes, a drop-off since 2003-04, according to
reporting by The Plain Dealer's Jennifer Gonzalez.
Constrained by tight budgets and the need
to help all students pass basic achievement tests, too many Ohio school
districts decide that education of the gifted isn't a high priority. But
it should be.
Smart students, just like any other
children, need teachers and classes that will help them make the most of
their abilities.
The fact that gifted youngsters might be
able to fly higher and faster than others is no reason to clip their
wings. This isn't elitism - as long as the school tries its best to
identify and serve all gifted children - this is public education at its
best.
The Cleveland schools realize that. They
are rebuilding the highly respected Major Work program, an enrichment
program for gifted youngsters.
Such programs have a dual benefit. In
addition to their direct service to students who learn quickly, they can
help build strong parental loyalty, which schools in poor cities and
weakened inner-ring suburbs really need.
Ohio
must stop shortchanging gifted students. The Ohio Department of Education
ought to ensure that every young and gifted Ohioan get the kind of
education that serves as a propeller, not an anchor. And that effort must
start today.
Leadership*Sports*Archaeology*Chemistry*Music*Science*Culture*Language*Chess*Writing*Theatre*Citizenship*Dance*Forestry*Law*
Academics*Engineering*Psychology*Gardening
ZENITH STUDENTS EXCEL!! Gifted education in schools. Ohio schools.