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Growing Gifted Learners: Through the School District and Community

Growing Gifted Learners: Through the School District and Community. North Carolina AIG Coordinators’ Institute Julia Link Roberts, Ed.D . Western Kentucky University. Advocacy. Classroom School School District State Nation. Advocacy at the Classroom Level. Effective. Dreaded.

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Growing Gifted Learners: Through the School District and Community

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  1. Growing Gifted Learners: Through the School District and Community North Carolina AIG Coordinators’ Institute Julia Link Roberts, Ed.D. Western Kentucky University

  2. Advocacy • Classroom • School • School District • State • Nation

  3. Advocacy at the Classroom Level Effective Dreaded

  4. What does an effective advocate look like?

  5. Educators must be advocate, too.

  6. Principles of Advocacy • A clear, focus message is known and shared by advocates. • A well-developed plan serves as the blueprint for action. • Relationships are in place with key decision-makers. • Personalized communication is effective. • The number of advocates matters. • Plan for speedy communication • Be ready to persevere.

  7. State-Level Advocacy What are the issues?

  8. Collaboration Counts • 1 parent = A Fruit Cake • 2 parents = A Fruit Cake and a Friend • 3 Parents = Troublemakers • 5 Parents = Let’s Have a Meeting • 10 Parents = We’d Better Listen • 25 Parents = Our Dear Friends • 50 Parents = A Powerful Organization

  9. The Excellence Gap • What is it?

  10. Mind the (Other) Gap • How will this [decision, policy] affect our brightest students? • How will this [decision, policy] help other students begin to achieve at high levels?

  11. Policies • Define what educational institutions choose to do or not do about a perceived need. • Guide how resources are allocated and used. • Define the mechanisms by which opportunities for targeted students will be offered. • Should be comprehensive enough to ensure adequate impetus for program development and service delivery. • Joyce Van Tassel-Baska,

  12. Policy Issues 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

  13. Unlocking Emergent Talent

  14. Developing the talents of intellectually and academically talentedchildren as well as potentially talented children from low-income backgrounds

  15. Excellence in Education: What does it look like…? • What would you see in a classroom that demonstrates excellence in education? • What would you see in a school that demonstrates excellence in education? • What would the data say about such a school?

  16. Expectaions? • Grade Expectations: How Marks and Education Policies Shape Students’ Ambitions • Programme for International Student Assessment/OECD

  17. Checklist for a Gold Standard School • Focus on Continuous Progress • Talent Development • Policies that Remove the Learning Ceiling • Ongoing Professional Development

  18. Things to ponder… • What policies do you have in place to support academically gifted children? • What policies do you need to get in place to support academically gifted students?

  19. Force-Field Analysis

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