Standard II: Comprehensive Programming within a Total School Community

The LEA provides an array of K-12 programs and services by the total school community to meet the diverse academic, intellectual, social, and emotional needs of gifted students.

Extra-Curricular Activities at Gregory

• Science Olympiad (Elementary)- meets weekly, grades 3-5, competition in Spring

• Battle of the Books (Elementary and Middle)- meets weekly, grades 4-8, competition in late Spring

• Science Fair (Middle School)- meets in person monthly, Google classroom collaboration, personal meetings as needed

• History Day (Middle School)- meets in person monthly, Google classroom collaboration, personal meetings as needed

• Math Club (Middle School) - meets bi-weekly, in collaboration with UNCW

Honors Societies at Gregory

• National Junior Honors Society (Middle School) - second semester 6th grade, 7th grade, and 8th grade eligible

Social and Emotional Needs Links and Resources

• Families of the Talented and Gifted

• Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted - This website includes resources for supporting the social/emotional needs of the gifted. The archived newsletters contain great articles to share with parents and teachers.

• Hogies; Gifted Education Page -  This website includes resources for "all things gifted".

• 27 Strategies for Optimal Wellbeing in our Brilliant, Intense, and Asyncronous Kids - Slideshare to view by Sue Jackson of the Damien Institute

Literature to Read

• The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children by Neihart, Reis, Robinson, Moon; This book spans all aspects of gifted children’s struggles and includes strategies for helping students and families cope and interventions to try.

• A Parent’s Guide to Gifted Children by Webb, Gore, Amend, and DeVries; The four authors, who have decades of professional experience with gifted children and their families, provide practical guidance in areas such as: Characteristics of gifted children; Peer relations; Sibling issues; Motivation & underachievement; Discipline issues; Intensity & stress; Depression & unhappiness; Educational planning; Parenting concerns; and much more!

NHCS Subject Acceleration Guidelines/Procedures

North Carolina and NHCS give administrators the right to grade and place students. Seeing a need for guidance in making these decisions, the AIG program adopted the Iowa Acceleration Scale and created a Subject Acceleration Checklist to assist schools.

Whole Grade Acceleration is typically used at the primary level, or grades

K-5. In NHCS we use the Iowa Acceleration Scale to guide decisions about whole grade acceleration. This research-based scale considers a child's ability, aptitude, achievement, interpersonal and intrapersonal skills, social and emotional needs, and a number of other factors. In addition, there is a planning tool to assist schools in monitoring the progress of accelerated students.

Subject Acceleration is typically used at secondary level, or grades 6-12.In NHCS we use the NHCS Subject Acceleration Checklist to guide decisions about subject acceleration. Like the Iowa Acceleration Scale, many factors, including assessment data, student performance, and social/emotional skills are considered. Schools are encouraged to develop a monitoring plan for students during their first year of acceleration.

Acceleration Checklist Form