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    The document summarizes the book "And Still We Rise" which profiles 12 gifted students attending Crenshaw High School's magnet gifted program. Each student faces significant life struggles but maintains high academic achievement. The journey of the students inspires by showing the abilities of students in urban schools. The summary also outlines some of the key students profiled in the book, like Olivia and Sadikifu, as well as teachers at the school like Ms. Moultrie and their importance in supporting students. It concludes by noting issues like underrepresentation of minorities in gifted programs and lack of equal resources for gifted students.

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    The document summarizes the book "And Still We Rise" which profiles 12 gifted students attending Crenshaw High School's magnet gifted program. Each student faces significant life struggles but maintains high academic achievement. The journey of the students inspires by showing the abilities of students in urban schools. The summary also outlines some of the key students profiled in the book, like Olivia and Sadikifu, as well as teachers at the school like Ms. Moultrie and their importance in supporting students. It concludes by noting issues like underrepresentation of minorities in gifted programs and lack of equal resources for gifted students.

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    The document summarizes the book "And Still We Rise" which profiles 12 gifted students attending Crenshaw High School's magnet gifted program. Each student faces significant life struggles but maintains high academic achievement. The journey of the students inspires by showing the abilities of students in urban schools. The summary also outlines some of the key students profiled in the book, like Olivia and Sadikifu, as well as teachers at the school like Ms. Moultrie and their importance in supporting students. It concludes by noting issues like underrepresentation of minorities in gifted programs and lack of equal resources for gifted students.

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    And Still We Rise: Text

    Overview

    AND STILL WE RISE


    By Miles Corwin

    The Trials and Triumphs of


    Twelve Gifted Inner-City
    Students

    Text Overview:
    And Still We Rise by Miles Corwin
    outlines the lives of twelve gifted
    students attending Crenshaw High
    Schools magnet gifted program. Each
    student manages to maintain high
    academic achievement and cultivate
    his or her intelligence despite facing
    over bearing life struggles.
    The
    journey of the twelve students is
    inspiring, and sheds light to the unseen
    abilities and talents of students in
    urban
    educational
    environments.
    When given adequate support and
    when educators are champions for
    their students, all learners have the
    aptitude to reach their highest
    potential.

    Remember the past.


    Cherish the present.
    Conquer the future.
    - Danielle (Valedictorian)

    Teachers College
    Fall 2016
    Giftedness and Intelligence
    Dr. Pinedo-Burns

    By B. Gaines
    C. Jones

    Bibliographic Information: see


    Weebly
    http://andstillwerise.weebly.com/

    1
    2

    v The Students

    * The Teachers and Administrators

    * The Stakes and Key Issues


    Key Points:

    Ms. Moultrie (Mama


    Moultrie):

    Standouts Amongst the Talented


    Twelve:

    Olivia
    o
    o
    o

    Survivor (absuive home, foster


    care, homeless, arrested)
    Natural Entrenpenrur
    Attends Babson College

    Miss Little:

    Teenage mother

    Brilliant Poet (p. 47)

    College in process

    Sadikifu
    o

    Gifted and Gangster (G and GT)

    Graduates and attends Clark


    College (postscript)

    Gifted poet and plans to teach.

    Experience and extensive knowledge


    with AP literature

    Demonstrated GT emotional intensity

    I hate liars. Some people have no


    morality. Here is one place you can
    learn morality in literature (105).

    Toya
    o

    A local product of Oakland ( she lives


    in the neighborhood with the
    students)
    Connected with the students on a
    cultural level
    Youll be reading Native Son and
    will learn about the blacks moving to
    out of the South to Chicago, into the
    slums and project (p. 87)

    Mr. Braxton:

    Passionate but not always effective with


    supporting the gifted students.

    Insufficient resources to fully support


    the students.

    The thought of all these kids who


    were bright, but whose futures were
    limited because they could only speak
    in Ebonics and couldnt communicate
    properly outside of their
    neighborhood (p. 321)

    Under-representation of
    minorities in traditional gifted
    programs persists.

    Gifted programs are not


    resourced equally. Gifted
    students are not serviced equally.

    Students are not provided with


    the same rate of access to AP
    courses in comparison to other
    Los Angeles schools (1:3).

    Relevant Takeaways:
    v Be aware of and
    institutionally prepared for
    the students ongoing and
    stories and struggles
    v Merge yet balance the
    teaching skill sets of both
    Moultrie and Little
    v GT identification processes
    fall short of capturing and
    including the varied gifts of
    minority students
    v Inner city GT program
    should provide total child
    services-similar to cradle to
    grave
    v Provide services based on
    students needs and right
    within the classroom

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