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Entrepreneurship as a Tool for Gifted Students
Challenging high-ability students in an entrepreneurial context increases gifted students’ potential to impact their communities positively.
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Tailored Holiday Gift Ideas to Inspire Gifted Kids
As the holiday season approaches, many of us find ourselves searching for gifts that do more than provide momentary excitement. We aim to choose presents that engage, entertain, and educate—gifts that will captivate their attention well beyond December and encourage them to think outside the box. But what’s the cost…
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Be Specific: Planning for G/T Outcomes
In the latest Texas Association for Gifted & Talented (TAGT) podcast featuring Celeste Sodergren, Director of Advanced Academics in the Waco, Texas, Independent School Distirct (WISD), she explores the need to map specific projects to skill development, with each skill rolling up to a larger skill set.
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Can Differentiation Improve Learning for All? Part One: A Short Introduction
While a homogeneous classroom of all gifted learners is antithetical to the pursuit of recognizing gifted potential across ability levels, effective differentiation requires an increase in human and other targeted resources to serve the variety of needs in our general education classrooms. Research indicates that differentiation is necessary to meet…
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iReady as an Indicator of Giftedness?
Districts have long searched for an online tool to support all assessments. Serving as a diagnostic Swiss knife, the online program should measure mastery of skills, remediate as necessary, challenge where appropriate, and provide fine-tuned data to allow a grade-level team to address learning gaps. For many districts, these tools…
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Student Gift-Making Menus for December
Help students to create gifts with care during this season of giving.
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Empowering Administrators for Gifted Education Success
“ …Leaders serve as a keystone in the provision of gifted education services in schools and districts” (pp. 26-27). Knowledge is power, and in this case knowledge leads to powerful programs for students. Research published in the Journal of Organizational and Educational Leadership gathers perspectives from administrators to investigate gaps…
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And, Or, Mean: Revisiting Our Identification Formulas
What effect do combination methods have on gifted identification? With the attention we give to equity in gifted identification, the formula used to combine assessment data is an important tool to consider. The latest research from the National Council for Research on Gifted Education indicates that the means by which we…
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Exit Policy Survey: Balancing Needs, Performance, and Parental Consent
Many readers responded to the Gifted Weekly Exit Policy research review survey. While there is limited academic research on this issue, it is clearly a significant concern within the gifted education community. Recommendations are included from reader responses.
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Creative Is As Creative Does
Creative thinking is valued as a gifted characteristic – can it be taught?
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No Exit: Once Gifted, Always Gifted?
Why Gifted & Talented Research Doesn’t Talk Much about Exit Policies Although research does not explicitly address removing students from gifted programs, inference and implications point to the following: if a program has stated goals, with identification processes that align with those goals, then the indicators that allowed for a…
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Key Flagstones Towards a Twice-Exceptional District Pathway (Part 3 in a 2e series)
Three key factors to support twice-exceptional students including acceptance and teamwork.
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Why? Strengths-based Approaches for Twice-Exceptional Students (Part 2 in a 2e Series)
The misconception that high ability obviates or excludes disability leads to a limitation of the 2e student’s ability to express and reach their fullest potential.
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