Special to The Clinton Courier
Clinton Public School District ACCENT teachers recently attended the Mississippi Association of Gifted Children (MAGC) conference in Vicksburg. The title of the conference was “Building Mississippi Legends through Gifted Education.”
ACCENT students from Lovett Elementary, the Clinton Public School District’s sixth-grade school, created centerpieces for fifty tables. Lovett ACCENT teachers Jessica Cline and Felicia Hudson taught sixth-grade students research skills, communication skills, and how to use informational literacy along with creativity to create the centerpieces about famous Mississippians. Students created LEGO blocks and figures to share about a famous Mississippian their group researched. The projects also included a QR code with a Canva presentation the students created.
Toni Stubbs, a fourth-grade ACCENT teacher at Eastside Elementary, presented “Sketchnotes, a Playground for Ideas” as a breakout session. Stubbs also created an original design for the conference which was made into a poster as well as the t-shirt design…