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About The Author:
Lauren A. Sosniak (d.) was a professor of education at San José State University in California. Nina Hersch Gabelko is director of the Academic Talent Development Program at the University of California at Berkeley.
Table Of Contents:
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1 Grow Talent, Don't Mine It 8
What's Talent? Who's Talented? 8
Is She Gifted? Is He Talented? Who Studies It? Who Cares? 10
It's Less About Differences in Kind, More About Speed or Amount 10
What Comes of Searches to Measure "It"? 14
Looking for Talent in the Wrong Places or at the Wrong Times 16
More Dynamic Ways of Thinking About Talent and Its Development 18
The Shift from Innate Characteristic to Alterable Variable 19
Here's Where Our Conversation Starts: The Academic Talent Development Program 22
The Do-It-Yourself Gifted Program 25
Nearly Twenty Years as ATDP: So What Have We Learned? 26
2 Welcome to the Academic Conversation! 29
One More Advantage for Some; for Others, It's Much More Significant 30
Welcome to the Academic Club! 30
Traditions from the First Meeting Set the Tone 31
What Brings You Here Today? A Volkswagen Phaeton 32
The Academic Conversation and the Work Begin Immediately 33
There's Always More Happening Than Meets an Uninformed Eye 39
Your Ideas Not Only Count, They Inform Others 41
Who Joins the Club? Who Lives in the ATDP Community? 41
A Brief History: From Mining Talent to Growing It 43
Becoming ATDP 44
Development Isn't Only for Students; It's for Programs, Too 46
ATDP Is Not Small, but It's Very Personal 47
The Good News Is That Even Good Things Change and Evolve 48
Especially "Sticky," Virtually Speaking 49
3 When Learning Is Child's Play 52
While Figuring Things Out, Changes Begin 52
Finding a Home and Consolidating Lessons Learned 54
Inviting Young Students Into the Academic Community 54
Play: The Best Way to Accrue IntellectualCapital 57
Evoking Curiosity, Inspiring Persistence 63
Elementary and Secondary Divisions: Two Approaches Toward One Goal 65
Exploration and Purposeful Learning Aren't Just for Kids: Inviting Novice Teachers into the Conversation 71
4 Every Child's Right: Academic Talent Development in All Communities and Classrooms 76
Starting with Things as They Are 76
Just a Little Deconstruction 81
Putting Things Together: It's All About Context 94
5 Changing College-Going from Chance to Choice 100
It Still Helps (a Lot) if Your Parents Are College Grads 100
We Knew We Had to Go to College; We Just Didn't Know What College Was 102
While Things Are Good for Some as Is, They Don't Improve on Their Own 107
A Sense of Belonging and an Actual Place to Belong 108
Rituals, Traditions, and Symbols to Convey the Spirit and Purpose of ATDP 109
Learning the Steps That Change Chance to Choice 111
Rituals and Traditions for Teachers Who Play Expanded Roles 114
It's More Than an Image of College; It's a Way of Conducting Business 116
ATDP Is Like College, Except When It's Not 118
It's Not Just a Sense of Place; It's a Sense of My Place 122
6 The Gift of Community and the Community of Gifts 125
Those Who Choose to Return to the Community, and Those Who Choose to Remain in It 126
Would You Like to Return? Would You Recommend the Class to a Friend? 129
If Responses Are So Similar, Can Students' Backgrounds Really Be That Different? 133
A Community of Gifts, Gladly Shared 134
Membership Has Benefits Not Available to Visitors 136
The Students Voted with Their Feet; What Did They and Their District Say? 137
Gift of Community, Community of Gifts: Belonging, Creating, Conferring on Others 139
Even with the Best Intentions, Schools Can't Do It All 144
Please Consider the 91% Solution: Rich Learning, Inside and Outside of Classrooms 145
References 149
Index 157
About the Authors 164
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What People Are Saying
"Nina Gabelko has always demonstrated how education at its very best motivates and inspires. I know this because she was my teacher 30 years ago! In Every Child's Right, Nina and Lauren Sosniak provide convincing examples of how educational privilege can cross longstanding racial and economic boundaries. I hope that every parent, teacher, and educational policymaker concerned with educational excellence will read this powerful and affecting book."--(Brian Copeland, author, Not a Genuine Black Man)
What People Are Saying
"A brilliant and eye-opening account of a university-style education for primary and secondary students. The writing is rich, the examples are evocative, and the voices of children and their teachers inspire! Here, talent is nurtured in all students, with powerful consequences. This is truly 'gifted education' in action, not education for the gifted. Gabelko and Sosniak make an important contribution to the debate about gifted education and education in general."--(Rhona S. Weinstein, author, Reaching Higher: The Power of Expectations in Schooling)