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My kids have been to two high schools, and neither had a person with a GT-type job. That said, one teacher at each school was very G and very T, and it sure did show.

At the first school (small dual enrollment program), this person was basically in charge of a lot of things, including the structure of the program. Her efforts are a big part of making the program as wonderful as it is. At the second school, the teacher I'm thinking of is obviously very smart, and she also likes to think about stuff in a careful way. She sees that her bright students make connections between different ideas they've learned about and has a way of encouraging them to keep doing that. She's turned the courses she teaches around and pretty much all of the kids respond very well to her.