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		<title>Good Luck Destination Imagination (DI) teams!</title>
		<link>http://coppellgifted.org/2012/01/28/good-luck-destination-imagination-di-teams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Linda Beeker]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The North Central Texas Regional DI Tournament will be held February 25, 2012.  Teams from Carrollton-Farmers Branch, Lewisville, Denton, Coppell, Perrin-Whitt, Decatur and Vernon along with some private and charter schools located within the boundaries of the above counties.   To find out more about this competition, please click here. Congratulations and good luck to all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coppellgifted.org&amp;blog=6378573&amp;post=6932&amp;subd=coppellgifted&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Symposium registration for student enrichment</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Julie Madigan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The student enrichment classes &#8212; for students  while their parents attend our symposium &#8212; are filling up quickly. Sign up your child now for the special enrichment sessions for students in grades K-2 and grades 3-5. Students will spend the day investigating principles of science, forces of nature, music and/or improvisation in sessions designed to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coppellgifted.org&amp;blog=6378573&amp;post=6922&amp;subd=coppellgifted&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Grass is Always Greener&#8230; lessons from a year abroad.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Zarin Pathan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The grass is always greener… We just returned to CISD after spending a year abroad. Our children (aged 11 and 6) both went to a top-notch school, a prestigious International (American curriculum) school with a wonderful state-of-the-art campus and a great reputation. Both my children, but especially my 11 year old, learned what it was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coppellgifted.org&amp;blog=6378573&amp;post=6757&amp;subd=coppellgifted&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking Giftedness by Todd Kettler</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Todd Kettler]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, November 3, 2011 most of the nation’s leaders in gifted education gathered in a ballroom at the Hilton Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana for the NAGC (National Association for Gifted Children) President’s Address by Paula Olszewski-Kubilius. NAGC Presidential Addresses are both opportunity and obligation, and they typically resemble courteous overviews of the workings [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coppellgifted.org&amp;blog=6378573&amp;post=6875&amp;subd=coppellgifted&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GT Testing and Appeals in CISD</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CGA membership is available to students and their families regardless of whether they qualify under the standards of the local GT program. How does CISD define giftedness? CISD defines giftedness as students who perform at a remarkably high level of accomplishment or show potential for performing at a remarkably high level of accomplishment in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coppellgifted.org&amp;blog=6378573&amp;post=6561&amp;subd=coppellgifted&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Carol Smith&#8217;s TAGT Experience 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good morning, We are back from TAGT in Austin. We need to be vigilant in supporting our gifted program in Coppell.  I was amazed at the drop in attendance this year.  Districts that have always attended in the past did not send delegates to the conference.  Some attended because they were presenters and that is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coppellgifted.org&amp;blog=6378573&amp;post=6842&amp;subd=coppellgifted&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lisa Timmerman&#8217;s TAGT Experience 2011</title>
		<link>http://coppellgifted.org/2012/01/17/lisa-timmermans-tagt-experience-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TAGT Conference November 30- December 2, 2011 Lisa Timmerman Lakeside My main “take-away” idea from this year’s conference is that I MUST TWITTER!  I’ve been very interested in getting this started, but always move it further down on my to-do list. However, the idea that convinced me came during the general session and was to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coppellgifted.org&amp;blog=6378573&amp;post=6846&amp;subd=coppellgifted&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free Webinars in February</title>
		<link>http://coppellgifted.org/2012/01/16/free-webinars-in-february/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A FREE, expert-led series designed for teachers, administrators, and parents of the gifted! 4th annual webinar conference sponsored by UC Irvine in California Cluster Grouping: A Paradigm Shift in Gifted Education Wednesday, February 1, 2012 8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. PST In these times of shrinking budgets, gifted programs are at great risk. The practice [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coppellgifted.org&amp;blog=6378573&amp;post=6905&amp;subd=coppellgifted&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Academic Decathlon Needs You</title>
		<link>http://coppellgifted.org/2012/01/06/academic-decathlon-needs-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Todd Kettler]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, Coppell High School finished in the top ten at the state tournament for Academic Decathlon, our best finish in school history. Only the top 40 high schools advance to state each year, and our CHS team has been advancing to state for the previous five years in a row with our final ranking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coppellgifted.org&amp;blog=6378573&amp;post=6889&amp;subd=coppellgifted&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Secrets to High School Success</title>
		<link>http://coppellgifted.org/2012/01/06/what-worked-what-didnt-how-to-make-the-best-of-the-texas-4-x-4-core-subjects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Symposium Panel Discussion, Thursday, Feb. 2 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. – CHS Lecture Hall, 185 West Parkway Blvd. (Doors open at 6:45p) FREE to CGA Members (no registration required) $5 at the door for Non-Members “What Worked, What Didn’t:  How to Make the Best of the Texas 4 x 4 Core Subjects” From IB, AP, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coppellgifted.org&amp;blog=6378573&amp;post=6815&amp;subd=coppellgifted&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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