Date: Currently no workshops are scheduled.

This Workshop Will Cover:

• Rationale underlying the Schoolwide Enrichment Model
• A Total Talent Portfolio that includes instruments for assessing student interests and learning styles
• Teaching strategies and curricular materials for all students and for advanced ability students
• Organizational and scheduling alternatives
• A thinking skills taxonomy
• Procedures for total faculty involvement
• Procedures for modifying the regular curriculum for high ability students
• Plans for forming a Schoolwide Enrichment Team
• Modification for middle and senior high schools
• Organizing enrichment clusters for all students

What is Schoolwide Enrichment?

Schoolwide Enrichment is a systematic plan for integrating a broad range of advanced level learning experiences and higher order thinking skills into any curriculum coarse of study or pattern of school organization. This research-supported plan is designed for general education, but is based on a large number of higher level learning strategies that were originally developed for use in special programs for the gifted and talented. The Schoolwide Enrichment Model provides a detailed plan or blueprint for school improvement, but each school develops its own unique program based on local resources, student populations, school leadership dynamics, and faculty strengths and creativity.

What Are the Major Features of Schoolwide Enrichment?

• High Standards and advanced levels of academic challenge for all students to help compensate for "dumbed down" curricular materials that over-emphasize drill and practice
• A flexible approach to curriculum modification to accommodate individual needs within outcome and mastery based models
• Replacement of the traditional remedial method for low achieving students with an enrichment approach that has been used successfully for years with higher achieving students
• Development of motivation, creativity, thinking skills, and cooperativeness by taking student interests and learning styles into consideration
• A hands-on approach to enrichment that focuses on the use rather than assimilation of information and the student's role as a first-hand inquirer
• A guarantee of faculty ownership and involvement through a comprehensive planning process that includes teachers, administrators, and specialists

Registration
This is a one-day intensive workshop for elementary, middle and secondary classroom teachers, principals and central office administrators, and gifted/talented program specialists. Workshop space is limited and advance registration is advised. All participants will be provided with a handout packet containing charts and figures used in the presentations.

Cost: $130.00 (advance registration); $140.00 (on-site registration)
This cost includes lunch and materials packet.
Fees will be refunded upon written request up to two weeks prior to the workshop date. There will, however, be a $10.00 charge for each refund.

Make checks payable to Creative Workshop Associates and mail to:
Creative Workshop Associates
PO Box 318
Mansfield Center, CT 06250

School POs are also accepted and can be mailed to the above address or faxed to 860-429-7783.
For additional information you can contact us at 888-518-8004 or 860-429-8118.

Schedule
Registration and coffee are scheduled from 8:30 am to 9:30 am. Workshop hours are from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm with a luncheon from 12:00 to 1:00 pm.

Dr. Joseph Renzulli is Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut where he also serves as Director of the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented. Throughout his career he has engaged in a variety of research and development activities dealing with identification systems, program development models, a curriculum development model, and a model for evaluating programs for the gifted and talented. Dr. Renzulli has contributed to numerous books and articles to literature in the areas of school reform and gifted education. He has served on the editorial boards of The Gifted Child Quarterly, Learning Magazine, and The Journal of Law and Education. He has been a consultant to numerous school districts and agencies and served as a staff member on the White House Task Force on Education of the Gifted. Dr. Renzulli began his work in education as a classroom teacher and teacher of gifted and talented students. His most recent book is entitled Schools for Talent Development: A Practical Plan for Total School Improvement.

Dr. Sally M. Reis is Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut where she also serves as a Principal Investigator for the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented. She was a teacher for 15 years, the last 11 of which were spent working with gifted students on the elementary, junior high, and high school levels. She is also an instructor in the Teaching the Talented Program and the Coordinator of Confratute. She has traveled extensively across the country conducting workshops and providing inservice for school districts designing gifted programs based on The Enrichment Triad Model and The Schoolwide Enrichment Model. She has coauthored several titles including The Revolving Door Identification Model and The Schoolwide Enrichment Model. Sally has written many articles on curriculum and program development, served on the editorial boards of several progressional journals, and is the current President of the National Association for Gifted Children. Her most recent book is entitled Work Left Undone: Choices and Compromises of Talented Females.