Birmingham City Schools

Next Friday, May 11, we will have a meeting for parents of gifted students.  We will meet at 1:00 pm in the EPIC auditorium, 1000 10^th Avenue South.  The meeting will be about organizing a parents association for gifted children in the Birmingham City School district.

As you may know, gifted education in Alabama is not funded.  One way to reach the goal of funding is to get our parents and stakeholders involved and reaching out to our elected officials.  When parent groups are involved in advocacy and support for their gifted children, change happens – maybe not all at once, maybe not as comprehensively as we might like in this tough economic climate – but parents make a difference.  Your children need you to make this change happen.

The meeting will also be a great time to meet with other like-minded parents of gifted children to ask questions and network.  We hope you can join us there.

The Birmingham City School System is committed to an educational program that recognizes the individual needs and special talents of each student.

Believing that all students have the right to an appropriate education based on the student’s individual needs and abilities, the Birmingham City School System recognizes the responsibility to provide a comprehensive educational plan to meet the needs of gifted students.  Systematic action is being taken to identify these students and to nurture and develop their abilities.  Such identification takes into consideration the Birmingham City School System’s cultural diversity and provides an environment in which students with recognized skills fulfill their potential.

The GATE Program is a multifaceted program.  Through the GATE Program, students in kindergarten through second grade will receive gifted services in the regular classroom with consultation from the gifted teacher as needed.  Students in third grade through fifth grade will receive gifted services at an assigned Cluster School.  Students in sixth grade through eighth grade will receive indirect gifted services at their local school with weekly consultation from the gifted teacher.

GATE faculty: Timothy Hogan, Veronica Rhodes Simmons, Denise Lucius, Tamara Williams, Amy Waine, Adrienne Acklin, Jane Putman, Lannette Lackey, Audrey Fine,     B. J. Melton, Robert Martindale, Bob Norman

For a printable brochure, click here.