Data, Resources and Support for Highly Capable Programs

Highly Capable EOY Evaluative Report

• 14-15 Evaluative Data

Demographics Data
Significantly missing among students identified as highly capable, are students whose families qualify for free or reduced price meals, students with disabilities and students in language programs.

• Highly Capable Program Data

Articles, Research, Webcasts
Discretion and Disproportionality: Explaining the Underrepresentation of High-Achieving Students of Color in Gifted Programs
Grissom, Jason A.; Redding, Christopher. Vanderbilt University. AERA Open, January-March 2016, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 1–25, DOI: 10.1177/2332858415622175, © The Author(s) 2016. http://ero.sagepub.com

Best Practices for Student Selection, Service Delivery Models and Support (PDF, 30 pages)
OSPI Legislative Report, 2009

Professional Learning Environments in Top Performing Systems
National Center on Education and the Economy’s (NCEE) Center on International Education Benchmarking releases two major reports on professional learning environments in top performing systems. (January 2016)

Organizations and Programs that Support the Education of Highly Capable Children

Whitworth University Center for Gifted Education

The Halbert and Nancy Robinson Center for Young Scholars

Washington Association of Educators of the Talented and Gifted (WAETAG)

National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC)

Washington Advanced Placement Incentive Program

U.S. Department of Education: Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Program