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Welcome to the Gifted Education Cooperative web site! Here you can learn more about GECO, find out what events we have planned for ourselves and our kids, find references to useful resources on the web, join our group and volunteer to help out! Please select from the options on the menu to the left. Recent updates from GECO:
Monday, March 16, 2009: 7 to 8:30 p.m. - Hinsdale Middle School GECO Kids’ Event – Math night for grades 5-8. Dr. Edna Bazik, (see 3/5 event for bio), leads children and their parents in fun math games. Email geco@arvamont.com or click here for more information. Click here for a list of Math websites recommended by Dr. Bazik. Monday, March 23, 2009: 7 to 8:30 p.m. - at a members home GECO Event – Meet the District 181 School Board Candidates. An informal gathering to meet, chat with, and ask questions of the candidates. Although there are four people on the ballot for four open positions on the school board, it is still important that the community get to know these candidates. Contact geco@arvamont.com or call Susan Portland at 630-920-1027 for more information.Thursday, April 9, 2009: 12:30 p.m. at a member's home GECO Book Club Book to be determined. Email GECObookclub@arvamont.com to RSVP.Wednesday, April 29, 2009: IAGC Springfield Day GECO Family Field Trip. Advocates from all over the state of Illinois descend on Springfield to encourage recognition of and funding for gifted education. Visit the Lincoln Museum, other historic sites, meet with legislators and see the legislature in action. For more information or contact geco@arvamont.comThursday, April 30, 2009: 7 to 8:30 p.m. Đ Madison School GECO Kids’ Event – Math night for grades K-4. Dr. Edna Bazik, (see 3/5 event for bio), leads children and their parents in fun math games. Email geco@arvamont.com or click here for more information. Click here for a list of Math websites recommended by Dr. Bazik.Thursday, May 7, 2009: 12:30 p.m. at a member's home GECO Book Club Book to be determined. Email GECObookclub@arvamont.com to RSVP.
Recent updates to other items of interest:
Information Kept by Popular Demand:
Join other parents in a Guided Reading of A Parent’s Guide to Gifted Children by Webb, Gore, Amend and DeVries. This book covers issues including peer and sibling relations, discipline, intensity and stress, and underachievement and motivation. A small group will read one or two chapters of this text each week and then discuss what we have read with moderator Newenka DuMont. There will be two sessions beginning in January: one daytime, one evening. Parents who have participated in a similar guided reading session in the past have found this to be exceedingly helpful, both in understanding their children and in learning from other parents. Please see attached for additional details.
If you have questions or comments about GECO, please email us at GECO@ArvaMont.com. For questions specific to this web site, please email GECOweb@ArvaMont.com.
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