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Increasing parity and equity in gifted programs requires understanding and collaboration that comes when we look through the lens of others.
Who should attend: Parents of gifted students and educators interested in building cultural competence and partnership between parents and schools.
Join Frank C. Worrell, Ph.D. to learn the factors that lead to many high potential students of color and other underserved populations to be missing in gifted programs: the achievement gap, opportunity gap, and excellence gap. His insights and research on cultural identities offer parents and educators a path to increased understanding and collaboration in an environment that provides coursework and social and emotional supports that gifted children need.
A Q&A will follow his remarks, and you are encouraged to provide questions in advance during the registration process.
Frank C. Worrell received a BA and a Masters in Psychology at the University of Western Ontario and a Ph.D. in School and Educational Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Currently, he is a Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley, where he serves as Director of the School Psychology program, Faculty Director of the Academic Talent Development Program, and Faculty Director of the California College Preparatory Academy. He also holds an affiliate appointment in the Social and Personality Area in the Department of Psychology. His areas of expertise include academic talent development/gifted education, at-risk youth, cultural identities, scale development and validation, teacher effectiveness, time perspective, and the translation of psychological research findings into school-based practice. He is a member of The Grayson School Research Advisory Board.
Dr. Worrell's recent publications include: The Cambridge Handbook of Applied School Psychology (2020), The Psychology of High Performance (2019), Talent Development as a Framework for Gifted Education (2018), named as a book of the year by the National Association for Gifted Children, and Achieving College Dreams: How a University-Charter District Partnership Created an Early College High-School (2016).
