This session will describe one district’s journey to craft differentiated learning experiences for gifted learners in already “advanced” secondary classrooms. Participants will leave with an understanding of how to schedule sheltered and clustered classes and how to build curriculum for the gifted learner at the secondary level.

Access Denied/System Failure: Status, Action, and Missingness in Texas
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.




