2e News focuses on information about Twice Exceptional people, meaning someone with giftedness and an exceptionality such as a disability or special needs.
The Boise School District has a Parent Lending Library to help educate, inform, and support parents as they raise gifted children. If you are looking for information related to parenting gifted children, please reach out to me or Helga Frankenstein, GATE Supervisor, (helga.frankenstein@boiseschools.org) for more information.
"Gifted/talented children" means those students who are identified as possessing demonstrated or potential abilities that give evidence of high performing capabilities in intellectual, creative, specific academic or leadership areas, or ability in the performing or visual arts and who require services or activities not ordinarily provided by the school in order to fully develop such capabilities.
Areas of giftedness addressed in state definition:
Intellectually Gifted
Academically Gifted
Specific academic areas
Leadership
Performing/Visual Arts
Creatively Gifted