El Dorado Gifted & Talented

10/20/2025

05/06/2025

Get your order in today—you do not want to miss out! Mrs. Brandie Reynolds, one of our GT parents, has offered to bake her famous Chilled Strawberry cakes. All proceeds will go to our 4th grade BETA Club members attending the Elementary National Beta Convention in June.

02/06/2025

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But it's not perfect yet!! Perfectionism can be a major aspect of being gifted and twice-exceptional. This presentation will define perfectionism as an aspect of anxiety and how it manifests in and outside of the classroom. It is important to understand the personality factors and reinforcement patt...

12/17/2024

Jurnee Daniels and her dad brought in their beautiful family challenge gingerbread house. Online judging will take place soon, so everyone be on the lookout. The online score will be combined with our onsite judging to determine the winners. You don't want to miss it!

12/17/2024

Our 2nd-grade Party Plan choice class ended the semester with a classroom presentation of their Project Expo. They shared their party type and theme, party game, party banner, invitation, serving area map, posters, and crafts they created. They also shared their food and drink budgets, which they learned to develop this semester, as well as their budgeting skills.

12/17/2024

The 2nd grade GT Creativity unit ended the semester with a recycled art project. Reduce, Reuse, Reclaim, Repurpose…and Reimagine! Creativity is a vital part of education for gifted students, and it can help them develop critical thinking skills, find their voice, and prepare for the future. By having to use an object to create a new object, students connected seemingly disparate concepts in order to generate fresh ideas. There is an extensive range of creativity that can be expressed with reclaimed materials. We used squash grown for Fall decorating that would have been thrown out after. Students hot glued cut sections from toilet paper rolls and used them to support their art pieces. They painted the squash to create their own Holiday art. In hopes of inspiring more artists to utilize the “re-claim” philosophy in creating their own artwork, we are sharing student work here. Our 2nd grade GT students want to challenge each of you to create your own recycled art project this holiday season. What better way to celebrate the beauty and importance of our earth than with earth-friendly art!

12/13/2024

4th grade Passion Projects work perfectly as BETA Club competition projects. Here you can see students working hard to be the best they can be working on hands-on projects that they enjoy.

12/13/2024

Adults identified as Gifted & Talented while in school, just know you are STILL Gifted!

Part 18 of Davidson Gifted Perspectives, a video series that examines a number of different gifted-related issues and viewpoints.  Sometimes,

12/13/2024

Thank you, Mrs. Johnette Weir, for sending Lily Rainwater with soda tabs for the 4th grade BETA club State Service Learning Project. All tabs will be turned in for recycling to raise money for the Ronald McDonald House. This is a place for families with patients in the Arkansas Children's Hospital. With this latest donation, we have approximately 8,400 tabs to turn in! Collection will continue until we leave for the State competition on January 22, 2025. Send yours with any GT 4th grader in the ESD or drop them off in the office at The Retta Brown GT Center, 505 Dixie Drive.

12/13/2024

Families coming yesterday with their Family Challenge gingerbread houses made for an exciting day! We love the locations they chose and the learning that went along with the research. Thank you to each family that participated.

11/25/2024

Continuing with myths about our gifted students.