News

=Welcome Back!=

//**Eco Challenge**// is back for 2010. This event for high school students will be held on September 28 at Phipps Conservatory. The day will include a keynote speaker, scavenger hunt and hands-on activities that relate to environmental science. To register please call 412.394.5818.

Some of our fantastic //**Apprenticeships**// still have openings! The application system will open soon at [|http://gateapprenticeship.aiu3.net] and students can choose from one of the following programs:
 * Acting
 * Animation
 * Astronomy
 * Avian Care - Fall or Spring
 * Conducting
 * Contemporary Dance
 * Filmmaking
 * Journalism Careers
 * Journalistic Writing/ Reporting
 * Musical Theater
 * Opera and Voice Coaching
 * Pittsburgh CLO Academy for Musical Theater - Dance Styles
 * Playwriting
 * Screenwriting
 * Short Fiction
 * Still Photography
 * Video Productions
 * Visual Arts: Fiber Collage
 * Visual Arts: Metal Clay
 * Web Design
 * Writing for Publication

//**Nathan Levy**//, a national speaker, will be at the Allegheny Intermediate Unit on September 16 from 12:30pm-3:30pm. He will also have a parent workshop from 5:00pm-7:30pm. A description of his workshops:

**//Powerful Strategies to Enhance Learning of Gifted and Highly Able Students //** Instructor: Nathan Levy Date: Thursday, September 16, 2010 Time: 12:30pm – 3:30pm Location: Allegheny Intermediate Unit, Sullivan Room

Nathan Levy, author of Stories with Holes, shares numerous proven ways to reach all learners in challenging ways. The objective is to have participants leave with a variety of new strategies and specific ideas to help children become better creative and critical thinkers. A variety of successful teaching/ parenting techniques will be share – as well as numerous reading, writing, and thinking activities. Bring your thinking caps and funny bones to this dynamic presentation.

**//How to Help Your Child Be a Better Thinker and Learner //** Instructor: Nathan Levy Date: Thursday, September 16, 2010 Time: 5:00pm – 7:30pm Location: Allegheny Intermediate Unit, Sullivan Room

This workshop explores numerous ways to reach learners in different and interesting ways that have been developed by Nathan Levy in his roles as educator, parent, and author. Parents will learn to assist their children in developing fluency in thinking and writing. Participants will leave with a multitude of new time-saving strategies, abundant creative ideas for activities, and knowledge of specific materials for implementing these new strategies. Join Nathan for his informative and humorous presentation. Bring your thinking caps. **//About Nathan Levy //** Nathan Levy (the author of //Stories with Holes, Whose Clues?, and Nathan Levy's 100 Intriguing Questions //) is a gifted educator. In his thirty five years as a teacher and principal, Nathan worked directly with children, teachers and parents. He has developed unique teaching strategies that encouraged the love of learning. Mr. Levy has mentored more than thirty current principals and superintendents, as well as helped to train thousands of teachers and parents in better ways to help children learn.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Nathan Levy’s books will be available for purchase.

**Gifted Education Workshops offered through Delaware County Intermediate Unit**
<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">[|Gifted Education in Pennsylvania: Regulations, Protocols and Resources] <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">[|Writing Effective GIEP´s Part I]

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">[|Writing Effective GIEP´s Part II]