Gifted Services

Our teachers work with identified students in grades K-12, through service options that include differentiated instruction and cluster grouping in the regular classroom; resource room instruction; subject acceleration; grade-level acceleration; early entrance; advanced classes; post-secondary and dual-enrollment options; distance learning; and various enrichment experiences. They provide lessons and activities that are designed to enrich the regular curriculum and promote higher-level thinking skills.

Other gifted services include the following:

• testing and identification

• consultation with classroom teachers, parents and students

• affiliation with gifted associations including the Ohio Association for Gifted Children and the West Central Ohio Association for Gifted Children

• information regarding legislation that pertains to the education of gifted students in Ohio

• scholarship opportunities

If you have questions regarding gifted education and/or services provided through our gifted program, please contact Dena Shepard, Director of Curriculum & Instruction, at dshepard@newlebanonschools.org or at (937) 687-1301 x483.

Gifted Services Resources and Links

• Assessment Instruments Used for Gifted Identification Trifold

• District Plan for the Identification of and Services for Students who are Gifted Trifold

• Gifted Nomination and Referral

• Hoagies' Gifted Education Page

• Parenting Highly Capable Children

• Policy and Plan for the Identification and Service of Children who are Gifted