Center for Gifted Education at The College of William and Mary

The William and Mary language arts units have been revised. Please contact Kendall Hunt Publishing Company (800-228-0810) or the Curriculum Director for more information.

The curriculum materials list and order form have been updated.

The 2011 Focusing on the Future brochure is now available.

Newest Publication

Ambrose, D., VanTassel-Baska, J., Coleman, L. J., & Cross, T. L. (2010). Unified, Insular, Firmly Policed, or Fractured,
Porous, Contested, Gifted Education? Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 33, 453-478.

Upcoming Conference

Dr. Tracy Cross will be a speaker at the Virginia Association for the Gifted Seminar on October 18, 2010. Please see http://www.vagifted.org/ for more information.

Center Contact Information

new Executive Director receives Mensa Lifetime Award

Executive director Tracy Cross The new Executive Director of the Center, Dr. Tracy L. Cross, received the Mensa Education and Research Foundation's Lifetime Achievement award for his contribution to the field of giftedness. Read the full story. Dr. Cross joined the Center this fall with an appointment at the College as the Jody and Layton Smith Professor of Psychology and Gifted Education. He comes to the Center and the School of Education from Ball State University in Indiana where he served since 1997, beginning as a professor of psychology at the school's Teachers College. In 2000, he became the George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Gifted Studies and held that title throughout the rest of his tenure at the college.

While at Ball State, Cross also created and served as director of the doctoral program in educational psychology, executive director of the Institute for Research on the Psychology of Gifted Students and associate dean for graduate studies, research and assessment.

Prior to his work at Ball State, Cross worked as the executive director of the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities - a state-supported, residential school for academically gifted adolescents.

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Graduate Programs: Provide the flexibility of offering graduate students additional scholarship funding, ensuring that the best students attend the College of William and Mary.

Saturday/Summer Enrichment Program (SEP): Enable us to offer scholarships to qualified students whose families may not otherwise be able to afford to send them to SEP.

Curriculum Development and Research: With your support we will be able to continue to add titles in our award-winning, research-based curriculum series. We will also be able to continue to conduct research studies to further demonstrate the effectiveness of Center-developed materials with high ability learners as well as other learners.

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What Works: 20 Years of Curriculum Development and Research

This document highlights “what works” based on the curriculum development and research work of the Center for Gifted Education during the past 20 years. Research findings include the areas of curriculum development, instruction, assessment, and professional development. Through the use of the Integrated Curriculum Model as a template for design, coupled with curriculum reform emphases in content areas, the Center curriculum has produced positive outcomes in student achievement and teacher use of differentiated strategies. This document is available for download.(pdf)

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