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Kevin Perks Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2024
To address today's numerous goals and challenges, K-12 schools need transformational leaders--leaders able to substantively enhance and improve educational systems and educator practices in order to achieve better, longer-lasting outcomes for all students. This practical resource is for superintendents, principals, and other education leaders who…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, School Turnaround
Shavinina, Larisa – Gifted and Talented International, 2013
This article presents some of the main results from the project about early childhood and adolescent education of Nobel laureates in science: the exceptional roles of parents and of teachers in developing scientific talent. Winning a Nobel Prize represents the pinnacle of accomplishment possible in one's field of expertise. Despite the…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Talent Development, Parent Role, Teacher Role

Hargrove, Kathy – Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1999
This article describes critical events that have shaped gifted education, including: intelligence testing, the concept of intelligence, the construct of creativity, greater understanding of brain functions, the work of John Dewey, Jerome Bruner, and Leta Hollingworth, school reform, world change, and the shift from identification to meeting…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Creativity, Educational Change, Educational Development
Hebert, Thomas P.; Cramond, Bonnie; Neumeister, Kristie L. Speirs; Millar, Garnet; Silvian, Alice F. – 2002
This monograph is designed to be a tribute to E. Paul Torrance, a renowned creativity researcher, university teacher, and mentor. It is presented in three sections, the first of which is a discussion of Torrance's life. It reviews his childhood in rural Georgia, his academic accomplishments, the emergence of his interest in creativity and the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Creative Development, Creative Teaching, Creative Thinking

Delisle, James R. – Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1999
This article describes critical events that have shaped gifted education, including: publication of "A Nation At Risk," the Roeper School, differentiated curriculum, concepts of intelligence, the Marland Report, the Torrance Tests, Teachers' College at Columbia University achievements, the legacy of Leta S. Hollingworth, Sputnik, and…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational History

Roberts, Julia Link – Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1999
This article describes events that have shaped gifted education, including: deployment of Sputnik, the Marland Report, advocacy organizations, curriculum differentiation, brain research, gifted residential schools, the Richardson Study, the Javits Gifted and Talented Students Act, "National Excellence: A Case for Developing America's…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational History

Corn, Anne L. – Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1999
This article describes critical events that have shaped gifted education, including: closing of one-room schoolhouses, the industrial revolution, the space race, the civil right movement, legislation for special education, growth in technology and information services, educational research, and advocacy. Missed opportunities and future…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Civil Rights, Educational Change, Educational Development

Haensly, Patricia A. – Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1999
This article describes critical events that have shaped gifted education, including: Renzulli's definition of giftedness, Sputnik, the Marland Report of 1971, and the development of the National Association for Gifted Children, the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, and the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children. (CR)
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Advocacy, Educational Change, Educational Development

Weber, Christine L. – Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1999
This article describes critical events that have shaped gifted education, including: the work of Lewis Terman and Leta Hollingworth, establishment of the National Association for Gifted Children, the First World Conference for Gifted Children, differentiated curriculum, federal gifted legislation, and the publication of "National Excellence:…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Advocacy, Definitions, Educational Change

Riley, Tracy L. – Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1999
This article describes 10 past events that might shape the future in gifted education, including: the birth of egalitarianism, the creative expression in the 1960s, the role of the media, civil rights, concepts of intelligence, political correctness, the information highway, inclusion, funding for education, the industrial revolution, and…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Civil Rights, Creativity, Educational Change

Cross, Tracy L. – Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1999
This article describes critical events that have shaped gifted education, including: psychometrically-based pedagogy, the space race, the civil rights movement, passage of special education legislation, changing concepts of intelligence, brain based research, curriculum differentiation, the inclusion model of instruction, and funding of gifted…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Advocacy, Civil Rights, Educational Change

Imbeau, Marcia B. – Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1999
This article describes critical events that have shaped gifted education, including: intelligence testing, world wars, deployment of the Sputnik and resulting legislation, civil rights, the work of advocacy organizations, the study of creativity, the changing roles of women, school reform, technology and computers, and teacher effectiveness. (CR)
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Advocacy, Computer Uses in Education, Creativity