Growing Gifted Learners: Through the School District and Community
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Growing Gifted Learners: Through the School District
and CommunityNorth Carolina AIG Coordinators’ Institute
Julia Link Roberts, Ed.D.Western Kentucky University
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Advocacy
Classroom School School District State Nation
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Advocacy at the Classroom Level
Effective Dreaded
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What does an effective advocate look like?
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Educators must be advocate, too.
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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.
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State-Level Advocacy
What are the issues?
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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
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The Excellence Gap
What is it?
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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?
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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,
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Policy Issues
1.2.3.4.5.
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Unlocking Emergent Talent
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Developing the talents of intellectually and academically talented children as well as potentially talented children from low-income backgrounds
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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?
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Expectaions?
Grade Expectations: How Marks and Education Policies Shape Students’ Ambitions
Programme for International Student Assessment/OECD
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Checklist for a Gold Standard School
Focus on Continuous Progress Talent Development Policies that Remove the Learning Ceiling Ongoing Professional Development
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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?
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Force-Field Analysis