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Provides gifted youth with opportunities for support, growth and community — regardless of their background.
Not exact matches
«Generous
gifts from donors like you
provide the support needed to continue our mission to inspire and enable
youth to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.»
She was a hairdresser who owned her own salon, called
Gifted Hanz, on the South Side of Chicago, and she worked part - time as a mentor for a group called
Youth Advocate Programs, which had been hired by the Chicago schools department to
provide intensive mentoring services to students who had been identified as being most at risk of committing or being a victim of gun violence.
The term «
Gifted» is defined by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act as Students, children, or
youth who give evidence of high achievement capability in areas such as intellectual, creative, artistic, or leadership capacity, or in specific academic fields, and who need services and activities not ordinarily
provided by the school in order to fully develop those capabilities.
The School of the
Gifted Young at the University of Science and Technology of China
provides unique opportunities for the country's brightest
youths.
Advocates of
gifted education argue that
gifted and / or talented
youth are so perceptually and intellectually above the mean, it is appropriate to pace their lessons more aggressively, track them into honors, Advanced Placement, or International Baccalaureate courses, or otherwise
provide educational enrichment.
She has served as the Chief Academic Officer for the District of Columbia Public Schools as well as the Deputy Chief for the Office of Teaching and Learning,
providing leadership for PK - 12 education by managing the offices of Curriculum and Instruction, Professional Development, Early Childhood Education, College and Career Readiness,
Youth Engagement, Bilingual Education, Out of School Time, School Counseling, Educational Technology,
Gifted and Talented, and Library Media Services.
(James J. Barta and Michael G. Allen); «Ideas and Programs To Assist in the Untracking of American Schools» (Howard D. Hill); «
Providing Equity for All: Meeting the Needs of High - Ability Students» (Sally M. Reis); «Promoting
Gifted Behavior in an Untracked Middle School Setting» (Thomas O. Erb et al.); «Untracking Your Middle School: Nine Tentative Steps toward Long - Term Success» (Paul S. George); «In the Meantime: Using a Dialectical Approach To Raise Levels of Intellectual Stimulation and Inquiry in Low - Track Classes» (Barbara G. Blackwell); «Synthesis of Research on Cooperative Learning» (Robert E. Slavin); «Incorporating Cooperation: Its Effects on Instruction» (Harbison Pool et al.); «Improving All Students» Achievement: Teaching Cognitive and Metacognitive Thinking Strategies» (Robert W. Warkentin and Dorothy A. Battle); «Integrating Diverse Learning Styles» (Dan W. Rea); «Reintegrating Schools for Success: Untracking across the United States» (Anne Wheelock); «Creatinga Nontraditional School in a Traditional Community» (Nancy B. Norton and Charlotte A. Jones); «Ungrouping Our Way: A Teacher's Story» (Daphrene Kathryn Sheppard); «Educating All Our Students: Success in Serving At - Risk
Youth» (Edward B. Strauser and John J. Hobe); «Technology Education: A New Application of the Principles of Untracking at the Secondary Level» (N. Creighton Alexander); «Tracking and Research - Based Decisions: A Georgia School System's Dilemma» (Jane A. Page and Fred M. Page, Jr.); and «A Call to Action: The Time Has Come To Move beyond Tracking» (Harbison Pool and Jane A. Page).
The term «
gifted and talented», when used with respect to students, children, or
youth, means students, children, or
youth who give evidence of high achievement capability in areas such as intellectual, creative, artistic, or leadership capacity, or in specific academic fields, and who need services or activities not ordinarily
provided by the school in order to fully develop those capabilities.
82 cents of every dollar donated to IEA goes directly to
providing programs and services for
gifted youth.
Donate to the Betty Johnson Scholarship Fund The Betty Johnson Scholarship Fund
provides education scholarships for
gifted youth or parents of
gifted children.
The Javits Act uses the federal definition of «
gifted and talented students,» which is located in the definitions section of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act: Students, children, or
youth who give evidence of high achievement capability in areas such as intellectual, creative, artistic, or leadership capacity, or in specific academic fields, and who need services and activities not ordinarily
provided by the school in order to fully develop those capabilities.
Instruction And Management E506: Alcohol and Other Drug Use by Adolescents With Disabilities (1991) E529: Assistive Technology For Students With Mild Disabilities (1995) E538: Cluster Grouping of
Gifted Students: How to
Provide Full - time Services on a Part - time Budget (1996) E530: Connecting Performance Assessment to Instruction (1995) E531: Creating Meaningful Performance Assessments (1995) E504: Developing Effective Programs for Special Education Students Who Are Homeless (1991) E507: HIV / AIDS Prevention Education for Exceptional
Youth (1991) E521: Including Students with Disabilities in General Education Classrooms (1992) E509: Juvenile Corrections and the Exceptional Student (1991) E464: Meeting the Needs of Able Learners through Flexible Pacing (1989) E532: National and State Perspectives on Performance Assessment (1995) E533: Using Performance Assessment in Outcomes - Based Accountability Systems (1995)
Your
gift helps increase our country's capacity to
provide quality mentoring relationships to the more than 9 million at - risk
youth who lack a positive caring role model we know they need!
Prudential Arizona real estate sales executives and employees will also make individual donations to support the hospital's Crews N Health program for homeless
youth and adolescents and its offices will hold donation drives and adopt families to
provide gifts during the holidays.