SAGT
Southlake Association for Gifted and Talented
Join/renew your SAGT membership for 2024-2025 school year!
Upcoming Events
Welcome Coffee
Brain Focus and Taking Care of the Whole Child
Speakers Dr. Zui Pan and Dr. Christina Sherrod will share tips on health and wellness to
maximize your child’s potential. Optimal wellness is needed to increase productivity, motivation
and resiliency. This session will provide parents with strategies to help with brain focus and
other techniques to help make the upcoming school year a little less stressful.
Tuesday, September 17
Carroll Admin Bldg - Lonesome Dove
11:00AM-1:00PM (Please arrive at 10:45 for check in)
Free for SAGT members, $20 for non-members
Recent Event Highlights
Study Skills Classes
Kids from grades 5-12 learned valuable study and organization skills from teachers, leaders, and student panels to get them ready for the new school year. This was a super popular event!
Welcome Back to our Quest and GT Teachers!
SAGT held a back-to-school lunch to celebrate our teachers as we start the 2024-2025 school year.
Emoji Class
Students took a class on creating their own emoji at the Apple store. This was a very popular event and perfect for the rainy weekend!
Helping Your Gifted Child Deal with Perfectionism and Anxiety
Dr. Mary Christopher shared a thoughtful presentation on building resilience in gifted kids.
Stargazing with Mr. Graff
Thank you Mr.Graff for spending time with our students and showing them stars and planets!
Andre Bradford - No Hard Feelings
For the 1st time ever, SAGT Parent Programs and Student Programs teamed up to bring back an encore presentation by the talented Andre Bradford, aka. S.C.Says. Once again he delivered a fantastic presentation for all. Thank you to Mr. Bradford for sharing his time and talents with us.
DaVinci & Einstein Member Meet & Greet
Family sponsors of the DaVinci & Einstein levels were given the opportunity to meet and greet GT CISD staff and other GT parents last month. This is our traditional "thank you" benefit for these memberships! Thank you to all who attended and THANK YOU to our wonderful GT teachers who came out to introduce themselves! We appreciate you!
Just as we do every year, SAGT will offer events of interest for the parents of students as well as opportunities for students and parents to learn together.
2023-24 has been a fantastic year! Thanks to the work of our SAGT Board along with the membership fees and donations of all our members we were able to:
Supported two sessions of Camp Invention to kick off the 2023 summer
Welcomed GT teacher back to school with a catered lunch and goodies including custom t-shirts and Target gift cards during staff development week
Over 460 people attended six Parent Programs - 3 speakers and 3 panels including our first joint Parent/Student event
Started the school year off with a study skills session for over 100 secondary students followed by Student Programs that included the always-popular, stargazing plus two coding events, and the much-enjoyed zoo overnight
Provided a $1500 scholarship to a deserving student, selected by a panel of SAGT members
Awarded teacher grants for a total of nearly $9,000
Sent 19 teachers to the TAGT conference at a cost of over $7,681
Continued to build our presence in social media/district communications including getting events in the district-wide eBlast
Maintained an up-to-date website making membership and events information easy to access for the GT community
Continued to exceed previous membership numbers
Hosted socials for each CISD school in the fall and a joint social for elementary schools in the spring
Sponsored substitutes for a one day for all Intermediate and Middle School GT teachers to give them extra planning time
Thanked our fantastic GT teachers with custom cookies and a $25 gift card during GT Awareness week
Thank YOU for your membership! We look forward to another successful year!
Einstein
Michelle Adams
Gloria and Adekunle Adekola
Anitha Bandla
Elena Batsalkin
Cynthia Beam
Michaelann Bush
Sara Changizi
Harikrishna Chelluri and Chaitanyeshwari Meesala
Bianca Cords
Vicki Dang Kelly
Tia Ellerman
John and Isabelle Engler
Lauren Fanning
Ashutosh Gupta
Alison Hamilton
Brian and Erin Ingram
Sonal Kalra
Nick and Annie Kemphaus
Heather Kim
Meghan and Ryan Kinslow
Laura Lawrence
Cindy Le
George and Jenny Liu
Jennifer and Brendan McMurrer
Nathan and Jennifer Merritt
Stephanie Mims
Claudia Molano
Jennifer and Chris Oehlerts
Michelle Reeve
Joshua Rothman
Elisha Rurka
Farhan Saadi
Andrea Schroeder
Shalini Selvan
Zoe Sexhus
Christina Sherrod
Andrea Simon
Anna Simpson
Puja Singh
Kevin and LeAnn Smith
Karthik Thirumalai
Jason and Jeanine Timmermann
Tham Trinh
Basanti Vrushab
Nicholas and Jeff Wang
Sibo Zhao
DaVinci
Daisy Bartlett
Huijie Cai
Amrita ChatterjeeRaj
Nancy D'Amico
Stacy Hamilton
Jeanine Jones
Jill Kennedy
Michelle Kim
Melissa Langan
Miao Liu
Abhishek Makkar
Manisha Mehta
Vandana Mishra
Sara and Mike Neustadt
Swetha Rai
Paige Sohn
Ashley and Tim Veccia
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