Achieving Equity in Gifted Programming: Dismantling Barriers and Tapping Potential

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Achieving Equity in Gifted Programming offers practical, research-based programming implementations to increase equity in gifted education. Calling on research on talent development as an instructional intervention, cultural awareness, and social justice in education, this book represents an intersection of theory and practice. Through exploring their own implicit and explicit biases, educators are tasked with responding to the disproportionate participation of economically vulnerable and culturally or linguistically diverse students in gifted programs by rejecting a deficit model approach and focusing on culturally responsive teaching.Each chapter poses an opportunity for educators to address underrepresentation and their own understanding of culturally, linguistically, and economically diverse learners, including their identification and needs. Underrepresentation in gifted education can be addressed it does not have to go on in perpetuity.

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Expertly organized and accessibly presented, "Achieving Equity in Gifted Programming: Dismantling Barriers and Tapping Potential" is an ideal instructional guide that would well serve as a curriculum textbook for school district in-service training programs, and is an essential, core addition to both college and university library Teacher Education collections.

,Midwest Book Review, 4/13/20
Achieving Equity in Gifted Programming would be a valuable read for those who want to take on the intimidating but essential task of working toward equity in gifted programs. ,Sarah E. Pennington,MiddleWeb, 10/15/20
This book would serve as a great resource for professional development on educational equity with teachers and administrators, even in the least diverse of districts. Using these strategies, schools can move forward providing students with rigorous educational opportunities, ensuring that all students, even those who were previously overlooked, are challenged.,Reanna Fulton,Gifted Education Review, 3/1/21

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April Wells is the Gifted Coordinator in Illinois School District U-46, where she facilitated the redesign of the District's gifted program in 2012-2013.