New to the NAGC Bookstore

 Educating for Creativity & Innovation 

This book is a resource guide to incorporating creativity into your life and into your professional efforts with students.  There are five sections: Understanding creativity and innovation, foundations for creativity and innovation, identifyng and measuring creativity, developing creativity, and the future of creativity and innovation. Editors are Donald Treffinger, Patricia Schoonover, and Edwin C Selby.

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Challenging Exceptionally Bright Children in Early Childhood Classrooms 

Written by Ann Gadzikowski, early childhood coordinator for the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University, Challenging Exceptionally Bright Children in Early Childhood Classrooms helps you understand what it means to be exceptionally bright in preschool and prekindergarten and offers strategies you can use to help all children reach their full potential. 

Using the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts with Gifted and Advanced Learners  

Provide rigor and relevance within the new standards with specific examples of differentiated instruction for advanced learners. Edited by Joyce VanTassel-Baska.

Using the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics with Gifted and Advanced Learners  

Differentiate within the standards to allow students to demonstrate higher level thinking, reasoning, passion, and inventiveness in mathematics. Edited by Susan K. Johnsen and Linda J. Sheffield.

Malleable Minds: Translating Insights from Psychology and Neuroscience to Gifted Education  

Building on the work on motivation by Carol Dweck and Joshua Aronson's findings on stereotype threat, Malleable Minds shows us what current research in psychology and neuroscience means to developing talent.  The final chapters in the book provide cases to help you bring this research into your classroom.

Gifted Program Evaluation 

Written to assist adminstrators in designing, conducting, and reporting on an in-house evaluation of your gifted programs. Includes a step-by-step evaluation process as well as reproducible worksheets and survey. Authors are Kristie Speirs Neumeister and Virginia H. Burney, both with experience in developing and evaluating K-12 gifted programs.