1st Edition
Gifted Education in Rural Schools Developing Place-Based Interventions
This text draws on data from a five-year longitudinal study focusing on gifted education programs in high poverty rural areas in the US. It provides a framework for the use of place-based interventions to effectively serve gifted students, reduce opportunity gaps, and address stereotype threat.
Recognizing that gifted learners are often underrepresented in rural contexts, the text adopts a social justice lens to outline the unique challenges of fostering advanced education in rural school districts. Using opportunities to learn and best practices in gifted education to inform interventions and practice, the text offers in-depth explanation of how place-based approaches can be used to identify gifted students and ensure that curricula are designed to respect the setting, students, and teachers. The text is structured into three parts, providing the reader with a logical and comprehensive progression through theoretical foundations, the practicalities of implementation, and the process and outcomes of measuring and validating outcomes.
Given its unique approach to gifted education programs, this book will prove to be an indispensable and timely resource for scholars working to develop gifted education and educational interventions with and for rural schools.
1. Introduction to Promoting PLACE in Rural Schools
Amy Price Azano
Carolyn M. Callahan
Part I: Place-Conscious Work in Rural Schools
2. A Focus on Rural Gifted Education: Integrating the Literature
Michelle Rasheed
Carolyn M. Callahan
3. Stereotype Threat for Rural Students
Amy Price Azano
Erika L. Bass
Heather Wright
4. Place as Context and Content: Project Design
Amy Price Azano
Carolyn M. Callahan
Part II: Place-Conscious Methods
5. Developing a Place-Based Identification Process
Carolyn M. Callahan
Amy Price Azano
6. Using Teacher Rating Scales: Professional Development
Annalissa Brodersen
Carolyn M. Callahan
7. Understanding the Sample
Tiffany Karalis Noel
Svetlana Dmitrieva
Part III: Curricular and Mindset Interventions
8. Differentiated Instruction in Rural School Contexts
Carol Ann Tomlinson
9. Depth and Complexity for Rural Learners
Sandra N. Kaplan
10. The Schoolwide Enrichment Model: A Talent Development Approach that Works in Rural Schools
Sally M. Reis
Joseph S. Renzulli
11. Place-Based CLEAR Curriculum
Carolyn M. Callahan
Tracy C. Missett
12. Fidelity of Implementation in Rural Schools'
Melanie Caughey
13. Growth Mindset Intervention
Maria El-Abd
Part IV: Promoting PLACE Outcomes
14. Affective Outcomes: Instrument Development and Validation
Carolyn M. Callahan
Sunhee Park
15. Impact: Student Outcomes
Carolyn M. Callahan
Svetlana Dmitrieva
Sunhee Park
Michael F. Hull
Amy Price Azano
16. Place-Conscious Writing Tasks
Erika L. Bass
17. Rural Families Through the Eyes of Fourth-Grade Fiction Writers
Rachelle Kuehl
18. Case Study in Rural Appalachia
Michael S. Matthews
Amy Price Azano
Michelle Rasheed
Part V: Conclusion
19. Expanding the Promoting PLACE Model
Amy Price Azano
Carolyn M. Callahan
Biography
Amy Price Azano is Associate Professor in the School of Education at Virginia Tech, USA.
Carolyn M. Callahan is Commonwealth Professor of Education at the University of Virginia, USA.