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Parents filled Meadow View Library to learn more about parenting TAG children.

The MeadowView Library was filled to capacity on May 14th as  Paula Wilkes, Ph.D., shared her expertise as a teacher of gifted students for 25 years, the sister of a gifted sibling, and the mother of a gifted daughter.

Paula shared many helpful books for parents including: Living Wabi Sabi (Taro Gold), Nurture Shock (Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman), and I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn’t): Telling the Truth About Perfectionism, Inadequacy, and Power (Brene Brown). 

Parents’ positive comments highlighted how the presentation left them with many introspective ideas to ponder and apply as they work to help their gifted children find their way in the world.

 Parents and staff are invited to dinner and a presentation tonight by Paula Wilkes, Ph.D., Gifted Education Specialist.  

Paula Wilkes, Gifted Education Consultant

Information about summer opportunities for your child will also be available. 

Please join us tonight at Meadow View School, 1855 Legacy Street, from 5:30-7:00 p.m.  Childcare will be available.

 3rd-8th grade TAG and High Potential Student Opportunity

A roller coaster takes shape.

Have you dreamed of building a  five-track roller coaster with two loops? How about an air powered dragster? Or a nine part chain reaction machine that begins with the flick of a switch?  Students will get the opportunity to go through the engineering process and learn some physics along the way.

Teachers, please let parents of 3rd-8th grade TAG and high potential students  know about this hands-on summer engineering camp. Scott Ziglinski, an experienced middle and high school teacher invites all interested students to come and have some FUN!!!

 Registration and information are available now and classes will up quickly!

Environment and experience can change the brain.

If you were teaching kindergarten at Danebo, Meadow View, or Prairie Mountain in 2006, you might remember participating in the study with Helen Neville and the Brain Development Laboratory at the University of Oregon.  This research is in the 2012 Spring Issue of the Oregon Quarterly . The important results of this study are shared: Environment and experience can change the brain.  Biology is not destiny.  The article, Rerailing the Brain Train , shares this important research.

 Bethel contributes to research that makes a difference.

 Bethel’s first OBOB, 6th-8th Division Tournament, held Saturday March 10 was a smashing success! Thanks to countless hours of planning by lead organizers, Rhonda Wolter and Leslie Brown, nearly 400 people enjoyed the event held at Willamette High School.

"Something Ironic", Cascade's OBOB Teams, enjoyed the competition!

Much excitement was generated in the opening assembly by Bethel’s Master of Ceremony, Pat McGillivray.  Besides warming teams up with questions from some of this year’s OBOB books, five of the authors spoke directly to Eugene OBOBers via video!  As 25 teams (125 middle school students) competed,  coaches, teachers, and families watched. After many exciting battles,  Monroe and Briggs fought their way to victory.

Thanks to all the volunteers, district staff, principals, teachers, cafeteria crew, and of course, our superintendant, Colt Gill for helping to make this a great experience for everyone!