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3.4.6 Where No One Waits to Learn: The Intersection of Professional Learning, Leadership, and Classroom Experience
Our school is a home for globally-minded gifted learners in grades K-12. In its promise that no one waits to learn, the school has transformed gifted identification processes to reach traditionally un-identified populations and has redesigned the experience of being in school for students, teachers, school leaders, and parents. This presentation illustrates the path to fostering and leading environments where no one waits to learn, and details our brain-based, learner-centric approach that has impacted hundreds of gifted students and their families. The presentation includes resources and tools to implement these practices in participants’ own environments.
In this symposium session, the presenter will engage the panel in an analysis of schooling alternatives that address the trifecta of effective program design for gifted learners: professional learning, leadership, and the classroom experience. Panelists should represent research or expertise in schooling alternatives for gifted learners and/or be professionals or researchers who can contribute to the discussion due to their depth of knowledge of the specific needs of gifted learners. As a trained executive coach and long-time facilitator of panels, roundtables, and think tanks, this presenter believes in facilitating toward insight through norm-setting, guiding questions, thoughtful clarification, permissioning, reframing, and maintaining the pace and timing of panelists’ responses.