During the summer a town program offers math sessions such as accelerated geometry and a creative writing session for middle schoolers. A summer chemistry program provides gifted students with an opportunity to work with a corporate professional who organizes a two-week chemistry camp. A special magnet school, the Canterbury Campus, is offered for grades two through five. Curriculum modification and compacting is used extensively with the identified population. Campus students also participate in the Rising Star Project, a state writing competition.
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All teachers in Fort Worth I.S.D. receive state mandated training in gifted education. The Schoolwide Enrichment Model is used in each school as the basic model of services, however each school varies its implementation strategies. The Lewella Merritt Elementary School has a particularly strong SEM program. Overall elementary services include cluster grouping in the regular classroom for instruction in the four core subject areas. Odyssey of the Mind, Future Problem Solving, Mathcounts, academic contests and competitions, mentorships, Saturday programs, Summer programs, after school clubs or groups, and service learning.