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WELCOME TO THE 2009/2010 SCHOOL YEAR AND GATE WEB SITE! ----------------------------------------------- ENROLL NOW: SDSU GATE CERTIFICATION (Registration
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Overview
The Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) program supports unique opportunities for high-achieving and underachieving pupils who are identified as gifted and talented. By state definition, gifted students are pupils who possess a capacity for excellence far beyond that of their chronological peers. This capacity includes many and varied characteristics that require modifications of curriculum and instruction. These modifications form the basis of gifted and talented educational services.
The San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) serves the gifted students within the district through two options-- (1) the Seminar program for the highly gifted and (2) the Cluster program for gifted and high ability students.
SDUSD is committed to a school environment that fosters achievement and the realization of each student's potential. This belief in the possibility of individual excellence and unique achievement and belief in the school's responsibility for fostering both is the basis of the GATE program.
Program Goals
- To provide for differentiation of content, process, product, and learning environment commensurate with abilities and talents of GATE students in order to create life-long learners.
- To foster participation in challenging capstone courses by introducing, in earlier grades, the skills, concepts and habits of mind needed for success in rigorous courses.
- To foster creativity, talent development, and self-generating, problem-solving abilities to expand each student's awareness of choices for satisfying contributions to society.
- To support the social and emotional needs of gifted students in order to help students develop healthy self-concepts, increase commitment to personal responsibility and responsibility towards others, and cultivate sensitivity and constructive ethical standards.
- To encourage and model respect for the full range of diversity among individuals with gifts and talents: cultural, socio-economic, language, and double-labeled.
- To address the needs of underachieving GATE students.
- To assure consistent participation of parents and community members in the planning and evaluation or programs for gifted students.
- To provide professional development opportunities related to gifted education to administrators, teachers, counselors, and GATE department staff to support and improve educational opportunities for gifted students.
- To establish formal and informal evaluation methods and instruments that assess the gifted program and performance of gifted students (which meet or exceed state content standards), and to use the results to improve gifted programs and gifted student performance.
- To provide an equitable, comprehensive, and ongoing identification process that adheres to the current state criteria.
Gifted and Talented Education
Madison High School, Room B6
4833 Doliva Drive
San Diego, CA 92117
General Information:
(858) 573-5998 - Phone
(858) 637-6214 - Fax
giftedandtalentedGATE@sandi.net - email
Marcia DiJiosia, GATE Program Director
(858) 573-5998
mdijiosia@sandi.net
Aline M. Hendricks, GATE Program Secretary II
(858) 573-5998
ahendricks@sandi.net
Rosa Covarrubias, Bilingual Clerk/GATE Records/Private School Testing
(858) 573-5986
rcovarrubias@sandi.net
GATE Resource Teacher Office
Madison High School, Room R24
4833 Doliva Drive
San Diego, CA 92117
(858) 573-5939 - Fax
Robin Nelson, GATE Resource Teacher
(858) 573-5992
rnelson@sandi.net
Rhonda Zawadzki, GATE Resource Teacher, AP/IB Coordinator
(858) 573-5987
rzawadzki@sandi.net
Suzanne Lindemann, Administrative Assistant I
(858) 573-5998
slindemann@sandi.net
GATE School Psychologist Office
Madison High School, Room B5
4833 Doliva Drive
San Diego, CA 92117
(858) 637-6215 - Fax
Guadalupe Cuarenta, GATE School Psychologist
(858) 573-5990
gcuarenta@sandi.net
Cristina Molina, GATE School Psychologist
(858) 573-5991
cmolina@sandi.net
Laura Rafal, Ph.D., GATE School Psychologist
(858) 573-5993
lrafal@sandi.net
Mary Todd, Ed.D., GATE School Psychologist
(858) 573-5997
mtodd1@sandi.net
Julienne Venditti, GATE School Psychologist
(858) 573-5994
jvenditti@sandi.net
