Gifted & Talented in Region 7 of the Great State of Texas

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Gifted & Talented Program Website

We'd like to know:  

Who is your campus/district contact for 

Gifted and Talented programming ?

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Professional Development at Region 7 ESC:  

Meet our Specialists

Janice Baker, Gifted/Talented Specialist

I have worked with students and teachers for 30 years to ensure all learners experience appropriate challenges and the support needed to ensure learning at all levels.

I want to help teachers understand how to implement rigorous lessons to challenge 

Donna Ashby, Gifted/Talented Specialist

I began my educational teaching career in my late twenties after marrying and having two children.  Through my children, I discovered a gift and passion for teaching and have sought continual knowledge and exploration of learning ever since.

I believe that all children are born with an innate ability to create and utilize creative thinking.   Education must be the impetus by which we foster creativity in children and encourage innovative thinking.

Education is the foundation of our nation and I am honored and humbled to be a teacher.

Creativity is a constant companion that ebbs and flows, cursing through every thought, idea, dream… until it finds an outlet, expressing itself in myriad tones, movements, colors…creations.

~Donna Ashby

A Definition

The state’s goal for G/T students is to ensure that those students who participate in G/T services demonstrate skills in self-directed learning, thinking, research, and communication. G/T students develop innovative products and sophisticated performances that reflect individuality and creativity and are targeted to an audience outside the classroom.



A gifted/talented student is a child or youth who performs at or shows the potential for performing at a remarkably high level of accomplishment when compared to others of the same age, experience, or environment and who exhibits high performance capability in an intellectual, creative, or artistic area;
possesses an unusual capacity for leadership; or excels in a specific academic field. (Texas Education Code §29.121)

Texas State Plan
English Version (PDF, 160 KB) Spanish Version (PDF, 181 KB)

For a print-ready file allowing you to produce an English-Spanish flip version of the Texas State Plan for the Education of Gifted/Talented Students, please e-mail gted@tea.state.tx.us.

Gifted/Talented Frequently Asked Questions (PDF, 69KB) provides information relating to the State Plan and should not be construed as TEA rules.