It's All About the Team

No matter what you do, and where you are, there is always a team.  We are social beings, and we are meant to be together and to work with others. 

I am fortunate to work with a great TEAM in gifted education!  Although I have not blogged about the team and their programs,  I want to tell you that I do not work alone, and although I write about what I do, it is only a small fraction of our services in the Vancouver Board of Education.  

Over the year, I will introduce you to these fantastic educators and the programs and services that they deliver....but right now, I want to give you a taste of programs, just so you know what is available.


We have challenge centres, and a future problem solving program, a mentorship program, consultative services for twice exceptional learners, as well as challenge centre programs for 2E students (gifted learning disabled and gifted emotionally fragile students are now called twice exceptional which is more inclusive and positive!), full time classes (multi-age cluster classes grades 4-7) for highly gifted students, and a variety of high school options, but in particular, the Transition Program at UBC, and the GOLD program for our Twice Exceptional secondary students. 


Although this seems like a great deal of services, there is always wait-lists for our programs, and we are continually trying to be innovative to meet the demands of our gifted and talented population.


If you are a Vancouver teacher and/or a gifted contact for your school, I invite you to our Contact Meeting, which will take place Monday October 3rd, at the Board of Education.  At this meeting, you will find out about our programs, meet the team, get our handbook for schools, and learn how to access our programs.  As well, if you have any questions,  we will be there to answer them! 

Please note, this is a workshop meant for teachers, organized by teachers, and the information is to help teachers with students in their schools. 

If you are a parent, you may want to know how to access these programs and services, and your child's school will help you with this.  As well, I would like to offer workshops in the future for parents, but there will be more about this in the future, so stay tuned!

Teachers, I hope to see you there!