A summer program in Calhoun County, Texas drew on community volunteers and resources to provide inexpensive enrichment classes for gifted students (grades 6-9) based on identified student interests. (BL)

A program is described which was intended to assist gifted ninth graders to develop skills, perspective, and characteristics needed to deal effectively with change. The program's goals (development of a futures perspective, futuring competencies, and self-actualization); philosophy; organization; evaluation; and content are reviewed. (CL)

The author describes the development and success of a program designed to allow gifted and talented and learning problem eighth grade students to choose their own courses and course sequence as they pursued mastery of seven critical skills in reading, writing, computation, problem solving, research, and adjustment. (CL)

A Challenge Committee comprised of the school librarian, principal, counselor, a district consultant, and teachers developed a junior high school gifted program that incorporated student interests, teacher talent, and community resources. The program's success stemmed from opportunities for teacher ownership, administrative support, parent and…

The mentorship component of Project Synergy at Teachers College, Columbia University (New York), develops the talent of potentially gifted, economically disadvantaged urban kindergarten children, by matching them with mentors from a school for gifted urban minority middle school students. This paper describes training, the mentoring relationship…