The 47th Annual

Convention of the National Association for Gifted Children was conducted

in Atlanta recently and one of Fayette County's most famed educators won

an award.

Dr. Bob Covel,

a teacher at Starr's Mill High School and a former teacher at McIntosh

High School, won the NAGC Curriculum Award, given annually to the outstanding

curriculum project for gifted students. Covel developed a unit entitled

"Heroes: A Humanities Approach."

More than 4,000

educators from across the nation and eight foreign nations participated

in the NAGC convention. The organization develops policies and practices

that encourage the diverse expressions of the nation's three million gifted

children from all cultures, ethnic backgrounds and socioeconomic groups.