Gifted Education

Working as a gifted education resource teacher for several years in a district with an active Office of Civil Rights complaint, I observed stark disparities in terms of who was serviced in gifted programs and who did not receive access to rich, rigorous learning. In that role, I worked to equip classroom teachers to employ advanced pedagogies with scaffolds in their general instruction, and I designed and hosted a program to increase multilingual learners' families' awareness about advanced programming in the district. Now, in my research, I am interested in how to make advanced learning more accessible to all learners, specifically through programmatic improvement and equipping classroom teachers to employ advanced pedagogies.