ERIC Number: EJ1482791
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Jul
Pages: 10
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0040-0599
EISSN: EISSN-2163-5684
Available Date: 0000-00-00
Unicorns and Blessings: Supporting Culturally Diverse Twice-Exceptional Learners through Learning Lab
Aydin Bal1; Dia Jackson2; Renae D. Mayes3; Freddrick Powell4
TEACHING Exceptional Children, v57 n6 p430-438 2025
Twice exceptional (2e) students are students who are both gifted and have a disability. At the intersection of exceptionality and race, twice exceptional students from racially minoritized communities may experience behavioral difficulties in schools. In this article, we provide information for educators as well as school and district administrators about the unique challenges and possibilities in teaching 2e students of color. We offer a research-based collective problem-solving process, Learning Lab, that brings together practitioners, students, school and district leaders, families, and community members, especially those who have been excluded from schools' decision-making activities. Learning Lab members engage in root cause analyses, map out their existing behavioral support system, and design a culturally responsive school wide behavioral support model in response to experiences, resources, needs, and goals of 2e students and their school contexts. In Learning Labs, the local school community has power in determining the future of their school. Practitioners, students, family and community members' diverse histories and interests are utilized to develop just, effective, and gifted schools for all.
Descriptors: Twice Exceptional, Minority Group Students, Behavior Problems, Culturally Relevant Education, Intervention, Cooperative Planning, Problem Solving, Stakeholders, Student Diversity, Barriers, At Risk Students, Positive Behavior Supports, Learning Laboratories, Middle Schools, Program Development, Program Implementation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Author Affiliations: 1University of Wisconsin-Madison; 2American Institutes for Research; 3University of Arizona, Tucson; 4Cobb County School District

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