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 They have 7th and 8th grade with an enrollment of over 1700. [|http://www.dallasisd.org/schools/ms/greiner/advanced.html**TAG**]  – Interdisciplinary Seminar The Talented and Gifted Interdisciplainary Seminar is an elective middle school course designed to meet the needs of identified students. The class is taught by teachers trained in the areas of Talented and Gifted. The course is interdisciplainary in nature and enhances the four core curriculum subjects by adding depth, complexity, and pacing. The program provides direct, intensive assistance to students engaged in independent projects; promotes thinking skills, discovery learning, student initiated research and other activities designed to enrich the curriculum; focuses on talent development; and identfies and brings community resources to the campus to assist in instruction. Only students screened and identified as Gifted/Talented may choose this elective. //Check out their Electives – Optional and Required// []  || []   || [|A Nation Deceived:][|How Schools Hold Back America’s Brightest Students]- The Templeton Report and the One Year Follow-up Survey [|What We Know About Academically Talented Students: A Sample of Our Findings]  is a new document that summarizes the major evidence the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth has collected related to frequently asked questions from parents, educators, other professionals and the media. ||
 * Onekama Middle School Exploratory [] ||
 *  Brazee, Ed . Exploratory Curriculum in the Middle School. ERIC Digest. 2000-12-00.  ||
 *  Centerville Middle School: Course Guide 2008-2009 200 Church Street · Landisville, PA 17538 · Ph: 717.898.5500  [] With a total population comparable to ours, they have 7th and 8th grades.  ||
 * W.E. Greiner Middle School, 501 South Edgefield, Dallas, TX 75208, 972-925-7100
 * [|Proposed Model for the] [|//Middle School Schedule//] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Dowden, Tony. “Relevant, Challenging, Integrative and Exploratory Curriculum Design:Perspectives From Theory and Practice for Middle Level Schooling in Australia.” ** The Australian Educational Researcher **, Volume 34, Number 2,August 2007 []  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">New York State Education Department: Gifted and Talented
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Recommendations from NYSED: