Defining

A definition of giftedness that guides best practice.

Key considerations in identifying and supporting gifted and talented learners: A report from the 2018 NAGC Definition Task Force.

 

General Overview

Addressing excellence gaps in K-12 education.

Building a wider, more diverse pipeline of advanced learners: Final report of the National Working Group on Advanced Education.

The broken pipeline: Advanced education policies at the local level.

Key themes and recommendations from The Dream Unencumbered: NAGC invitational colloquium. 

 

Programming Standards (United States)

National Standards

Pre-k-grade 12 gifted programming standards.

Applying the pre-k-grade 12 gifted programming standards: Guiding questions.

Common core and next generation science standards for gifted and talented students.

 

State of the States

State of the states in gifted education.

States can improve equity and outcomes in gifted education, but too many aren’t trying: Comment on state of states report.

High stakes for high achievers (Elementary and middle schools): State accountability in the age of ESSA.

High stakes for high schoolers: State accountability in the age of ESSA.

 

Gifted Education Program Standards: Individual State Example

North Carolina academically or intellectually gifted program standards.

 

Identification/Assessment

The role of assessments in the identification of gifted students.

Universal screening increases the representation of low-income and minority students in gifted education. 

Effect of local norms on racial and ethnic representation in gifted education.

Rethinking how we identify ‘gifted’ students.

 

Teacher Training

Universal Educator Preparation in Gifted Education 2024.

Faculty standards for teacher preparation programs in gifted & talented education.

High-achieving students in the era of NCLB.

The Classroom – Instructional Approaches

General

Curriculum as motivation for gifted students. Psychology in the Schools.

Top 20 principles from psychology for preK–12 creative, talented, and gifted students’ teaching and learning.

Quick learners; High achievers: Study of mathematically precocious youth [Documentary].

 

Academic Acceleration

A nation deceived: How schools hold back America’s brightest students.

A nation empowered: Evidence trumps the excuses holding back America’s brightest students.

Academic acceleration in gifted youth and fruitless concerns regarding psychological well-being: A 35-year longitudinal study.

Talking with a student about academic acceleration.

The role of advanced placement in bridging excellence gaps.

Under-resourced students increasingly participate in AP courses, but inequities persist.

 

Differentiation

Differentiating curriculum and instruction for gifted and talented students.

Grouping.

Meeting the needs and potentials of high-ability, high-performing, and gifted students via differentiation.

 

Curriculum Compacting

Why not let high ability students start school in January? The curriculum compacting study.

 

Cluster Grouping

Promoting student achievement and exemplary classroom practices through cluster grouping: A research-based alternative to heterogeneous elementary classrooms.

 

 

Equity and Programming

Excellence gaps by race and socioeconomic status.

Rethinking gifted coverage in the media.

Ohio’s lost Einsteins: The inequitable outcomes of early high achievers.

Addressing excellence gaps: Frontloading.

Missing in action: Gifted black girls in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

 

 

Young Gifted Children

Early childhood: Creating contexts for individualized learning in early childhood education.

Parenting with eyes wide open: Young gifted children, early entry and social isolation.

 

 

Twice-exceptional (Intellectually Gifted with a Co-occurring Exceptionality)

The paradox of twice-exceptionality: Packet of information for professionals – 2nd Edition (PIP-2).

Gifted and dyslexic: Identifying and instructing the twice exceptional student.

Twice-exceptionality.

 

 

English Learners who are Gifted

Exploratory study on the identification of English learners for gifted and talented programs.

Where are the gifted English learners and students with disabilities?

 

 

Social-emotional & Family Support

The importance of parent, family, and community engagement.

Nurturing social and emotional development of gifted children.

Small town, big talent: Identifying and supporting academically promising students in rural areas.

Advocate for gifted children.

 

 

Examples of Successful Programs

Excellence with equity: The case for rethinking gifted education.

How one school district is balancing excellence and equity—and another isn’t.

Best practices in gifted programming.

Fairfax County Public Schools.

Young Eisner Scholars (YES)

Mississippi Public School Consortium for Educational Access

What works: 25 Years of commitment to gifted children through research and curriculum at the Center for Gifted Education at The College of William and Mary