Meet+Your+Gifted+Staff


 * Matt Wendeln [[image:Handsome,_eh.jpeg]]**

Our Teachers that work with Talented and Gifted students are called GIS's (Gifted Intervention Specialists)

__**Elementaries:**__ **Connie Dennis and Dixie Huff** teach 3rd, 4th and 5th grade language arts as a replacement for all or part of their regular language arts curriculum. Babeck Elem: Shared responsibilities of 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grade Language Arts by Connie Dennis and Dixie Huff Bloomfield Elem: Dixie Huff: 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grade Language Arts Seven Mile Elem: Connie Dennis: 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grade Language Arts

Jackie Creekbaum, teaches language arts to gifted 6th, 7th, and 8th graders.
 * __Edgewood Middle School:__ Jackie Creekbaum**

In the high school, gifted students may take honors classes in all four academic areas (language arts, mathemeatics, science and social studies. Advanced Placements classes are also available for advanced science, math, and English courses.
 * __Edgewood High School:__**

Our district gifted office is responsible for all records. We read all test scores of OAT's, OGT's, SAT's, PSAT's, COGat's, and test honors classes at EHS to insure that all students are nominated in the academic areas that they receive an advanced score. A student may also be nominated by a parent, teacher, responsible adult, peer or self. A student may be tested up to twice a year in the same subject for identification purposes. A second round test may be given if a student scores 90-94% on the first round test. It takes a 95% or above on the nationally normed scales to be identified in any of the four academic subjects. We also have identification in Creativity (which is based on the Cognitive test scores only) and Performing Arts which requires a nomination and a series of items to be done to qualify.
 * __Office:__** Brenda Puckett, Administrative Assistant
 * Housed at** Bloomfield Elem, 300 N Miami Ave., Trenton, Oh **Phone:** (513) 988-5750

We have two phamplets available opon request to the office. //__Gifted Services: Informational Materials__// has 3 sub phamplets: Policy for the Identification of and Services for Students Who are Gifted Identification of Children Who are Gifted: Definitions and Criteria (Ohio Dept of Education) Assessment Instruments Used for Gifted Identification (Edgewood City Schools)
 * __Phamplets:__**

//__Guidlines for the Identification of Gifted Students in the Visual and Performing Arts.__//