The Schoolwide Enrichment Model: A How-to Guide for Educational Excellence presents an inspirational model for helping students achieve in today’s schools. Based on years of research, the Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM) is founded on highly successful practices developed for programs for gifted students and promotes “a rising tide lifts all ships” approach to school improvement. This guidebook shows educators step-by-step how to develop their own SEM program based on their own local resources, student population, and faculty. Instead of treating students as simply test numbers in a system, the model helps educators look at student strengths and interests and capitalize on them. The book highlights the model’s fundamentals and underlying research and provides information about the model’s school structures, organizational components, and service delivery. The book suggests methods for engaging and challenging identified gifted students. In addition, this comprehensive resource includes a collection of useful instruments, checklists, charts, taxonomies, assessment tools, forms, and planning guides that are designed to help educators find effective ways to organize, administer, maintain, and evaluate different aspects of the Schoolwide Enrichment Model.

The Schoolwide Enrichment Model: A How-To Guide for Educational Excellence

Education & Teaching

Sally M. Reis

Joseph S. Rezulli

Schools & Teaching

Prufrock Press, Inc.

In today's high-pressured atmosphere to "get the scores up," teachers and students find themselves faced with more and more highly-structured, prescripted lessons that allow for little creativity and exploration. However, both students and teachers deserve a balanced education that includes exciting opportunities to delve into areas of strong interest. An Enrichment Cluster Program presents a framework for offering these opportunities during the regular school week. 
Authors Joseph Renzulli, Marcia Gentry, and Sally Reis present teachers and administrators with all the information and materials they need to develop a successful Enrichment Cluster Program. Seven simple steps show program leaders how to schedule and implement a program, and eight easy-to-follow guidelines help cluster facilitators create engaging and challenging enrichment clusters. This guidebook also includes over 50 pages of reproducible planning forms, surveys, assessment instruments, and staff development handouts; 11 ready-to-use staff development activities; a week-by-week timeline for implementation; a resource guide of how-to books appropriate for a program, and dozens of example cluster descriptions on topics ranging from flight to children's rights to web site design.

Enrichment Clusters: A Practical Plan for Real-World, Student-Driven Learning

Joseph Renzulli Ph.D.

Marcia Gentry Ph.D.

Sally Reis Ph.D.

Completely revised and updated, On the Social and Emotional Lives of Gifted Children tackles important and timely issues dealing with the social and emotional needs of today's gifted children. Dr. Cross uses research data, cultural analysis, and personal insight to address the lived experiences of gifted students, how they cope with mixed messages in a constantly changing society, and how they manage their way through school and home. The book also contains a section outlining suggestions and ideas for guiding and supporting the development of gifted children. This concise, sensitive look at gifted children and their social and emotional world offers unique insights for both teachers and parents who support these special children. 
This newly revised edition includes eight new chapters; the addition of "Key Concepts" and "For Discussion" questions for all chapters; and a greatly expanded resources and support section. 
For additional guidance on this special topic refer to The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children. 
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On the Social and Emotional Lives of Gifted Children

Cross, Tracy L.

Enhancing Independent Problem Solving in Mathematics offers an exciting program that allows students to explore their problem-solving abilities. The text can be used as a teaching tool or an independent enrichment activity for curious students who thrive on self-directed and self-checking activities. Students can move through the program independently and at their own pace. The program challenges students to develop critical, analytical, and divergent problem-solving skills. The activities are ideal for risk taking and motivates gifted learners to try newer and bigger challenges. Lessons on estimation, geometry, Gestalt problem solving, using graphs and diagrams, pattern recognition in data, and other skills related to advanced problem solving are included. This book includes 30 lessons for each grade level. Also included in the book is a comprehensive teacher's guide with teaching tips and ideas.

Enhancing Independent Problem Solving in Mathematics

Hresko, Wayne

Herron, Shelley

When students are ready to fine-tune their writing, reach for this practical, well-organized text. Guided lessons include information on writing techniques, samples, and assignments. Topics include: finding subjects to write about, developing an effective beginning and ending, using detail to develop ideas, writing in the content areas, deciding on purpose and audience, revising and more. Lesson formats include: group lessons, working with a partner, and individual work.The goal is to help students develop more sophisticated approaches to writing. Useful in a writers' workshop or a writing lab setting, this text is packed with lessons to make students' writing skills shine.This book is for more advanced writers. For younger students, see Beginning Writing Lab. For writers needing more guidance, see Writing Lab.Grades 5-8

Advancing Writing Skills: A Guide to Authentic Writing

Reference

Nancy Atlee

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Changes are constantly occurring in life. The increase of technology and the needs of mankind continuously force change. The Changes curriculum asks students three main questions: Can people control changes? Can using past information help you predict change? Are changes positive or negative?
In Changes Book 2: Progress, Reactions, and History, students focus on three main questions: Is progress good or bad? What would happen if progress stopped? How would this affect the field of technology, medicine, or education? The second book in the Changes series will lead your students on a journey of understanding the nature of change.
Students will also investigate the universal concept of change. Students learn about chemical changes by examining the effects of salt on buoyancy, water on pasta, and heat on popcorn kernels. Students' investigation continues with the story and examination of a young character's life as she and her father go into the wilderness and live with Native Americans.
Other books in the Changes series include Changes Book 1: Rights, Resources, and Weather; and Changes Book 3: Communication, Honesty, and Inventions. Each book contains detailed lesson plans, reproducible activity sheets, and assessment tools. This curriculum unit makes use of the following great children's literature books: 
<ul>
<li>
The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton;</li>
<li>
Homer Price by Robert McCloskey;</li>
<li>
I Wonder Why Zippers Have Teeth: And Other Questions About Inventions by Barbara Taylor;</li>
<li>
It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles Shaw;</li>
<li>
Encounter by Jane Yolen;</li>
<li>
The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh;</li>
<li>
Willie's Not the Hugging Kinds by Joyce Durham Barrett; and</li>
<li>
Barn by Debby Atwell.</li>
</ul>

Changes Book 2: Progress, Reactions, and History (Differentiated Curriculum for Grade 2)

Brenda McGee

Angie Harrelson

What is a frontier? What are the frontiers of the future? What frontiers are being explored today? These and other questions are presented in this series on frontiers that helps make this concept come alive to all students. In Frontiers Book 2: Geography, Explorers, and Literature, students will discover the transcontinental railroad, the discoveries of Lewis and Clark, the mission to Mars, political cartoons, freedom of speech, and book bans. Other books in the Frontiers series include Frontiers Book 1: Pioneers, Genetics, and Energy and Frontiers Book 3: Geology, Astronomy, and Environment. Each book contains detailed lesson plans, reproducible activity sheets, and assessment tools.This curriculum unit makes use of the following great children's literature books: If the World Were a Village by David J. Smith;Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep; andMaterial World: A Global Family Portrait by Peter Menzel (optional).

Frontiers: Geography, Explorers, and Literature (Book 2)

McGee, Brenda

Wolfinsohn, Sarah

Keiser Triska, Debbie

What is a frontier? What are the frontiers of the future? What frontiers are being explored today? These and other questions are presented in this series on frontiers that helps make this concept come alive to all students.In Frontiers Book 3: Geology, Astronomy, and Environment, students will explore many different types of frontiers found within the broad concepts of geology, astronomy, and the environment.Students will investigate questions such as, What is the rock cycle? What is plate tectonics theory? and Who was Alfred Wegener? Once students begin to understand the forces at work on our own world, they examine research taking place to land the first man on Mars. By studying the Flashline Mars Research Station and the effects of near zero-gravity on mammals, students will have a better understanding of just how daunting of a task it will be to someday land on the red planet. This book also looks at what is being done to conserve the natural resources on our planet.Other books in the Frontiers series include Frontiers Book 1: Pioneers, Genetics, and Energy and Frontiers Book 2: Geography, Explorers, and Literature. Each book contains detailed lesson plans, reproducible activity sheets, and assessment tools.This curriculum unit makes use of the following great children's literature books: The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks by Joanna Cole; andSilent Spring by Rachel Carson.

Frontiers: Geology, Astronomy, and Environment (Book 3)

Patterns help organize our lives. Students participating in the Patterns Differentiated Curriculum Kit will experience activities that will help organize their thought processes throughout life. Students will become pattern detectives, pattern creators, and pattern solvers in this three-part series. The books in Prufrock's new Differentiated Curriculum Kits employ a differentiated, integrated curriculum based on broad themes. This all-in-one curriculum helps teachers save planning time, ensure compliance with national standards, and most importantly, pique their students' natural excitement and interest in discovery. By participating in the wide variety of activities in the Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grade 1, students will discover the patterns around them and gain a lifelong desire to learn. In Patterns Book 2: Body, Cycles, and Graphs, students will identify patterns in their environment. They will find patterns in their bodies, in cycles, and in graphs. Each book contains detailed lesson plans, reproducible activity sheets, and assessment tools

Patterns Book 1: Literature, Arts, and Science (Differentiated Curriculum for Grade 1)

Patterns help organize our lives. Students participating in the Patterns Differentiated Curriculum Kit will experience activities that will help organize their thought processes throughout life. Students will become pattern detectives, pattern creators, and pattern solvers in this three-part series. The books in Prufrock's new Differentiated Curriculum Kits employ a differentiated, integrated curriculum based on broad themes. This all-in-one curriculum helps teachers save planning time, ensure compliance with national standards, and most importantly, pique their students' natural excitement and interest in discovery. By participating in the wide variety of activities in the Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grade 1, students will discover the patterns around them and gain a lifelong desire to learn. In Patterns Book 2: Body, Cycles, and Graphs, students will identify patterns in their environment. They will find patterns in their bodies, in cycles, and in graphs. This book contains detailed lesson plans, reproducible activity sheets, and assessment tools. This curriculum unit makes use of the following great children's literature books: 
<ul>
<li>The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss; and</li>
<li>Curious George Goes To a Chocolate Factory by Margaret and H.A. Rey.</li>
</ul>

Patterns Book 2: Body, Cycles, and Graphs (Differentiated Curriculum for Grade 1)

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