Here is a PodCast I recorded with My Ed Expert on how gifted students can be underachievers just as much if not more than your average student.
Slide Decks from PD Presentations
Academically Challenging vs. Intellectually Stimulating - There is a Difference
Asking High Level Effective Questions
Choose Your Own Adventure - Student Choice (part 1)
Choose Your Own Adventure - Student Choice (part 2)
Developing Grit in Gifted Students
Executive Functioning Skills - and How We Can Deliberately Teach Them
Higher Level Questioning - Raising the Rigor
How the Hell Do We Motivate These Kids
Surviving Your 1st Year in Gifted
Underachieving Gifted Students
Conversations with Colorado Association for Gifted and Talented
Webinars hosted by Prufrock Press
Book Suggestions for Various Advocates for Gifted Students
Books that Every Educator Should Read
When Bright Kids Get Poor Grades and What You Can Do About It - Dr. Sylvia Rimm
Genius Hour: Passion Projects that Ignite Innovation and Student Inquiry - Andi McNair
Differentiation for Gifted Learners: Going Beyond the Basics - Diane Heacox
Teaching Young Gifted Children in the Regular Classroom - Marjorie Lisavskis
Fiction Books for Kids about Gifted Kids
Gifted Program Evaluation: a Handbook for Administrators and Coordinators - Kristie Spiers
Beyond Gifted Education: Designing and Implementing Advanced Academic Programs - Scott Peters
Talent Development as a Framework for Gifted Education - Frank Worrell
Best Practices in Gifted Education: an Evidence-Based Guide - Anne Robinson
For Administrators
Genius Denied: How to Stop Wasting Our Brightest Young Minds - Jan Davidson
Dumbing Down America - the War on Our Brightest Young Minds - James Delisle
A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America’s Brightest Students - Acceleration Institute
The Cluster Grouping Handbook: a Schoolwide Model - Susan Winebrenner
Equity
And Still We Rise: the Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Kids - Miles Corwin
Identifying and Serving Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Gifted Students - Debbie Roby
Unlocking Potential: Identifying & Serving Gifted from Low-Income Households - Tamra Stambaugh
Removing the Mask: How to Identify and Develop Giftedness in Students from Poverty - Ruby Payne
Excellence Gaps in Education: Expanding Opportunities for Talented Students - Jonathan Plucker and Scott Peters
Achieving Equity in Gifted Programming - April Wells
As educators we have to constantly challenge ourselves to learn. Here are books I have either recently read, am currently reading, or am planning to read.