Schoolwide Enrichment Starter Package

The Schoolwide Enrichment Model
In its second edition, The Schoolwide Enrichment Model contains updated information about how to achieve educational excellence in today’s schools. Drs. Renzulli and Reis offer practical, step-by-step advice for implementing successful SEM programs in the K-12 school setting, discuss schoolwide enrichment, and provide information about the model’s school structures, organizational components, and service delivery.

In addition to the model’s fundamentals and underlying research, this comprehensive resource includes a collection of useful instruments, checklists, charts, taxonomies, assessment tools, forms, and planning guides that are designed to help educators find effective ways to organize, administer, maintain, and evaluate different aspects of the Schoolwide Enrichment Model.

Enrichment Clusters
In today’s high-pressure atmosphere to “get the scores up,” teachers and students find themselves faced with more and more highly-structured, prescripted lessons that allow for little creativity and exploration.  However, both students and teachers deserve a balanced education that includes exciting opportunities to delve into areas of strong interest.  Student-driven enrichment clusters challenge the entire school family (students, teachers, staff, parents, and community volunteers) to investigate and engage in topics as professionals, applying advanced content and authentic methods to develop products and services for real-world audiences. Step-by-step guidelines show school staffs how to set up an Enrichment Cluster Program within the regular school week, train staff and community volunteers, create successful clusters, assess student products, evaluate the program, and more.  Easy-to-use staff development activities and dozens of reproducibles help schools quickly get the program up and running with minimal time and funding. 

Curriculum Compacting
Curriculum compacting is a practical, inexpensive method for ending boredom in bright students. It enables teachers to streamline the regular curriculum, ensure students’ mastery of basic skills, and provide time for challenging enrichment and/or acceleration activities. This book covers everything teachers need to understand, justify, and implement curriculum compacting for advanced learners.

The Art of Schoolwide Enrichment
In this companion to <i>Opening Doors</i>, Friedman and Webb provide more helpful, hand-on tips for bringing SEM to life in your school.  Readers learn, step-by-step, how to create a schedule that includes a weekly E-Slot for enrichment learning experiences as well as ideas for injecting interest-based experiences into the E-Slot, regular curriculum, test-prep activities, and the entire school.  Chapters cover designing a traditional Enrichment Cluster Program, using lunch and recess for enrichment, developing a yellow-page-style listing of student expertise, curriculum-based enrichment, and more.  Friedman and Webb also share how they use the principles of SEM to promote a can-do attitude and address mandates, problem areas in the curriculum, and other school issues.  To save administrators and educators time, loads of reproducible handouts and forms are included in the appendices as well as on a CD. This resource is a must-have for anyone developing an SEM school or who is interested in injecting their school with more opportunities for enrichment learning and teaching.