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GT Blast

La Vernia Independent School District

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Fall 2025

Welcome to this edition of the GT Blast! We’re excited to share updates, student highlights, and upcoming opportunities for your gifted learners.

Primary & Intermediate Primary & Intermediate

Students at the Primary and Intermediate are completing their Texas Performance Standards Projects (TPSP). The students at all grade levels have been researching and are now creating products.

  • 1st Grade - Getting the Dirt on Soil - A Worm's View
  • 2nd Grade - Hey, Little Ant
  • 3rd Grade - Create a Health Club
  • 4th Grade - Math Around Town
  • 5th Grade - Puzzles, Teasers, & More
We’re excited to announce that field trips have been planned to give students fun and meaningful learning experiences! Look for field trip details in Rooms.

Junior High & High School Junior High & High School

La Vernia has been given the privilege to join the Stand Up, Speak Out civics program. Students have formed teams and are working on an issue they have identified in our La Vernia community. Teams will compete at the La Vernia Civics Fair on Saturday, January 10, 2026. Teams will be selected to advance to the Stand Up, Speak Out San Antonio Regional Civics Fair. Winning teams could advance to the state level.

Gifted/Talented students are encouraged to participate in UIL programs. At the high school, students have opportunities to earn a GT cord through GT advisory, UIL, Academic World Quest, and community service projects.

Parent Corner Parent Corner

Raising Problem Solvers

Here is an article to help navigate the unique challenges of raising a gifted child.

The Anxiety of Raising Gifted Children: Why Optimizing Their Full Potential Can Break Them (and Us)

Dr. Hui S. Jiang explores how a focus on maximizing gifted children's potential can create harmful pressure and anxiety. When success becomes the measure of worth, children learn to equate their identity with achievement, leading to perfectionism and fear of failure. Dr. Jiang shares how parents can break this cycle by intentionally shifting focus away from outcomes, normalizing struggle, creating non-performance spaces, and verbally affirming unconditional love. This thoughtful examination reminds us that our children's worth isn't measured by accomplishments, and that genuine curiosity and joy in learning matter more than external validation.

launch artofproblemsolving.com

Sandra Burg, GT Specialist

Email: sburg@lvisd.org
Website: https://www.lvisd.org/page/gifted-and-talented

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