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Why we do what we doIt is important to understand that students' happiness is not our ultimate goal as educators at Seabury. It is, instead, a by-product of a program built specifically for the gifted learners we serve. Seabury's program is different from typical public or private school programs because our kids think and learn differently. There has been a great deal of research over the years into how gifted students learn and develop, and there are agreed upon best practices for making sure gifted students have the same opportunities to be challenged intellectually and supported socially and emotionally as typically developing students. Dr. Karen Rogers, one of the foremost researchers in the field has been doing meta-analyses of various program practices for gifted learners for more than 30 years, looking at the gains students make when each practice is implemented, such as subject or grade level acceleration, grouping students with intellectual peers, and giving students the chance to pursue areas of interest. Where many schools implement or partially implement some of these recommendations, Seabury's program has been developed around these research-based best practices.
Read more at Seabloggery
Karen B. Rogers: Lessons Learned About Educating the Gifted and Talented
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