Unlocking Potential - Identifying and Serving Gifted Students From Low-Income Housing

Winner of NAGC's 2021 Book of the Year Award

This edited book, written by authors with extensive experience in working with gifted students from low-income households, focuses on ways to translate the latest research and theory into evidence-supported practices that impact how schools identify and serve these students. Readers will:

Learn about evidence-supported identification systems, tools, and strategies for finding students from low-income households.
Discover curriculum models, resources, and instructional strategies found effective from projects focused on supporting these students.
Understand the important role that intra- and interpersonal skills, ethnicity/race, families, school systems, and communities play.
Consider the perceptions of gifted students who grew up in low-income households.
Learn how educators can use their experiences to strengthen current services.

Unlocking Potential is the go-to resource for an up-to-date overview of best practices in identification, curriculum, instruction, community support, and program design for gifted learners from low-income households.

Authors: Tamra Stambaugh, Paula Olszewski-Kubilius

ISBN: 9781646320806

Publisher: Prufrock Press, 2020

Pages: 344, paperback