In this MasterMinds Session, gifted education and equity researcher Marcia Gentry will take participants through the recent System Failure/Access Denied report examining underrepresentation in gifted education by income and race, including specific information on how Texas measures up. Explore findings from analyses of all public schools in the country and in Texas concerning access, representation, and missingness in gifted education through four waves of Office of Civil Rights data from 2000 to 2016. Learn about differences between Title I and Non-Title I schools, among races, and across locales. Consider steps to mitigate underrepresentation and develop effective inclusive programming. Finally, learn how to examine data from your own district or school so you know your baseline and can plan from that point forward.
Conversations in Gifted Education: Achieving Equitable Identification & Services
This special MasterMinds conversation brings together three experts on identification and equity, Karen E. Rambo-Hernandez, Ph.D., Susan K. Johnsen, Ph.D., and April Wells, in an open, honest discussion about the struggles of overcoming issues related to equity and identification and practices you need to adopt to improve your identification practices.
