The CAG "Communicator" focus is on serving gifted students in California. This document consists of the four issues of "communicator" issued during 1997. Featured articles include: (1) "The Gifted Student At Risk. It Can't Be True" (Judy Roseberry); (2) "Tech Net-Technology and At-Risk Students" (Judy Lieb); (3) "Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Gifted Girls" (Marilyn Morrison); (4) "Gifted At Risk Strikes Home" (Anonymous); (5) "Examining Claims about Gifted Children and Suicide" (Tracey Cross); (6) "Psychological Autopsy Provides Insight into Gifted Adolescence" (Tracey Cross); (7) "Ten Schools Program" (Angel Barrett); (8) "All I Know about Parenting a Gifted Child I Learned from 'Star Trek'" (Carolyn M. Callahan); (9) "Work, Interests, and Love: Developing Your Strengths and Talents" (Sally M. Reis); (10) "The Growing Problem of Gifted Underachievers" (Terrence W. Brown); (11) "Minding Your Own Resource: A Team Approach To Raising a Gifted Child" (Bev Mast); (12) "Writing Standards To Meet the Needs of GATE Students" (Catherine Barkett); (13) "The Internet and Gifted Students: Making the Connections" (Karen Krupnick); (14) "So My Child Is Gifted--What Now?" (Joan Franklin Smutny); (15) "Homeschooling--Is It Right for You?" (B. J. Darr); (16) "Alternative Assessment: Coming Closer To Measuring Learning" (Barbara Clark); (17) "Magnet Schools Offer Option for Gifted Students" (Kriste Mencher); (18) "Our Son Did Not Come with an Instruction Book: The Story of Our Search to Help Our Gifted Learning Disabled, ADD Son" (Sheila Moskowitz); (19) "College and Beyond: Access and Success for Students with Learning and Attention Disabilities" (Madeleine Brandli and Kathleen Pommer); (20) "Double Confusion: When a Child Is Twice Exceptional" (Marcia Dijiosia); and (21) "Highly Gifted Students: A Report from the Trenches" (Bruce Saunders). Each issue includes a lesson plan designed to develop creativity in gifted students. (CR)