Welcome to Quest Elementary's Gifted Student Program: G.E.M.S. (Gifted Explorers Master Solutions)

• Awards

  • Pet Age magazine Icon 2018

  • Humane Society’s National Humane Teacher of the Year (silver winner) 2016

  • Brighthouse Channel 13 Every Day Hero 2015 and 2016

  • Eckerd’s Children’s Hero of the Year; Talent Category 2015

  • ECET2 nominee for the national conference in December 2015

  • Office Depot’s Teachers Change Lives 2014

  • Women in the Pet Industry Network Advocate Finalist 2013 and 2014

  • Education World’s Teacher of the Day 2014

  • Points of Light 2014

  • Orange Appeal Magazine’s Teacher Makeover 2013

  • North Shore Animal League PSA Contest 2nd Place $750  2012

  • Good Morning America’s Get Away with GMA 2009

  • Disney’s All-Stars Adventure Best School Community Service Project  2005

  • LifeStyle Homes Teacher Room Makeover  2009

  • The Florida Council on Economics Education: Beads for Big Cats Rescue:  Honorable Mention 2000

  • CNBC Stock Market Game 4th Rank in nation  2000

   

  GRANTS:

   

              Totaling $68,750 (Petco, FDOE Gifted Challenge, Sue Bassett Foundation, Brevard Schools Foundation, P&G Iams, ArtLab, just to name a few)

• Publications

  • Pet Age Magazine 2018

  • Pets, People, Planet 2017 

  • WPETam950 Radio Guest 2017

  • What to Expect when adopting a Dog by Diane Rose-Solomon 2016

  • Voices Carry for Animals Radio Guest 2016

  • Clear Channel Outdoors 7 digital boards  2015

  • Guest speaker on Judy Helm Wright’s People-Animal Connection Blog Talk Radio  2015

  • The New Barker magazine  2015

  • TreasureCoast.com  2015

  • Space Coast Daily 2015

  • LearningFromDogs.com 2015

  • WMEL Seeta and Friends 2015

  • Brevard Online 2015

  • DianeRoseSolomon.com  2015

  • Gifted Education News 2015

  • Pinterest.com 2014

  • Examiner.com Lake County Animal Services and Canine Commando too. By Stephen Dickstein 2014

  • Blog Talk Radio 2014

  • PetRadioShow.com  2014

  • SheKnows.com   2014

  • Points of Light 2014

  • Florida Today 2014

  • Education World 2014

  • WFIT Guest Speaker 2012

  • A Kids’ Guide to Protecting & Caring for Animals, How to Take Action!  By Cathryn Berger Kaye 2008, 2010

  • Change the World with Service Learning By Katy Farber 2011

  • HumaneSociety.org   2010

  • K.I.N.D. magazine 2008

  • Youth Service America 2006

  • Disney Adventures All-Stars’ Magazine 2005

• Claymation Animation

• Chairs for Charity Art History

  Art history study of Ancient Greece, Renaissance, Early American, Impressionist, Modern. Groups of students studied different eras and the aspects of the period. Then individually the students selected an artist of their time, researched him/her, then created an original piece using the same media and added their research to their art. Finally, in pairs, students recreated an original painting onto a chair but changed the human into a dog or cat. The classroom was turned into a museum for parent night selling the chairs in a silent auction with the funds donated to the Canine Commandos.