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The
Texas Performance Standards Project(TPSP)
is a
statewide standards and assessment system you can use to capture the high levels
of achievement of gifted and talented students. The goal of the TPSP is for
students to create work that reflects the professional quality that the
Texas State Plan for the
Education of Gifted/Talented Students requires.
The
Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented (TAGT)
is an organization of educators and parents
dedicated to meeting the unique needs of gifted and talented students. TAGT promotes
the awareness of the unique social, emotional, and intellectual needs of gifted
and talented students in an effort to impact appropriate educational services to
meet these needs.
Texas Education Agency
through the Advanced Academic Unit in the
Division of Curriculum provides direction and leadership to K-12 advanced
academic programs. Unit staff assists districts statewide with implementation of
the Texas State Plan for
the Education of Gifted/Talented Students, oversees the Texas AP/IB
Incentive Programs and collaborates with the Texas Association for the Gifted
and Talented, The College Board, and other groups to meet the needs of gifted
and academically advanced students. The Advanced Academics Unit provides
on-going communication with the field about current issues pertaining to the
gifted/talented and advanced programs and policy interpretations related to the
Texas Administrative Code Chapter 89 and graduation requirements in Chapter 74.
College Board:
The College Board is a not-for-profit membership association whose mission is to
connect students to college success and opportunity. Founded in 1900, the
association is composed of more than 5,000 schools, colleges, universities, and
other educational organizations.
The National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC)
is an organization of parents, teachers,
educators, other professionals, and community leaders who unite to address the
unique needs of children and youth with demonstrated gifts and talents as well
as those children who may be able to develop their talent potential with
appropriate educational experiences.
William & Mary Center for Gifted Education:
The
development of exemplary curriculum frameworks and units of study for classroom
use with high ability learners has been an emphasis at the Center for Gifted
Education since its inception. Center materials are grounded in the Integrated
Curriculum Model (VanTassel-Baska, 1986, 1995, 2002), which is designed to
respond to gifted learners’ characteristics of precocity, intensity, and
complexity through its three dimensions of advanced content, higher level
processes and product development, and interdisciplinary concepts, issues, and
themes.
Jim Delisle:
With more than 30 years of experience as a teacher, counselor, college
professor, and parent of gifted students, Dr. James R. Delisle combines his
professional and personal experience with gifted students into a new guidebook
for parents. Delisle’s up-front, insightful, and personal approach to the
education and guidance of gifted children and adolescents has led him to become
America’s favorite expert on the topic. Delisle has penned more than 14 books on
gifted education, including The Gifted Kids’ Survival Guide: A Teen Handbook,
and continues to serve this population as a professor of gifted education at
Kent State University and as a middle school teacher in the Twinsburg, OH,
school district.
Sylvia Rimm:
Dr. Rimm is a psychologist, directs Family Achievement Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio
and is a clinical professor at Case School of Medicine. She has authored many
articles and books including Keys to Parenting the Gifted Child, How to Parent
So Children Will Learn, Why Bright Kids Get Poor Grades-And What You Can Do
About It, Raising Preschoolers, See Jane Win®, How Jane Won, and See Jane Win®
For Girls. See Jane Win® was a New York Times Bestseller and was featured on the
Oprah Winfrey and Today shows and in People Magazine. Her book, Rescuing the
Emotional Lives of Overweight Children, was a finalist for the Books for a
Better Life Award and her newest book is Growing Up Too Fast: The Rimm Report on
the Secret World of America's Middle Schoolers. Dr. Rimm is co-author, with Gary
A. Davis, of one of the most frequently used introductory gifted textbooks,
Education of the Gifted and Talented (2003), now in its 5th edition. She also
writes a parenting column syndicated nationally through Creators Syndicate.
Grammar Website:
http://www.theslot.com/
Renzulli Learning:
The Renzulli Learning Differentiation
EngineTM puts students in touch with engaging, individualized
resources specially chosen for their interest areas and learning styles.
They view
student engagement as the key to raising achievement. Their goal is to challenge
all young people to stretch above their current comfort and ability level.
Davidson Academy:
A free public school for profoundly gifted pupils on the University of Nevada,
Reno campus. The mission of the Davidson Academy is to provide profoundly gifted
young people an advanced educational opportunity matched to their abilities,
strengths and interests. The academy is a non-residential, full-time day school.
To be eligible to attend the Davidson Academy, students must be at the middle or
high school level across all subject areas and score in the 99.9the percentile
on IQ or college entrance tests. The Academy is specifically designed to meet
the needs of profoundly gifted middle and high school students, starting at the
sixth grade level and beyond.For admission details, please visit
www.DavidsonAcademy.UNR.edu/Admissions.
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