Overview of Schoolwide Enrichment Model
Short SEM Videos
Resources for Short SEM Videos
- Reexamining the Role of Gifted Education and Talent Development for the 21st Century: A Four-Part Theoretical Approach by Joseph Renzulli
- The Three-Ring Conception of Giftedness: A Developmental Model for Promoting Creative Productivity (2016) by Joseph Renzulli
- The Enrichment Triad Model: A Guide for Developing Defensible Programs for the Gifted and Talented by Joseph Renzulli
- Curriculum Compacting: A Systematic Procedure for Modifying the Curriculum for Above Average Ability Students by Sally Reis & Joseph Renzulli
- Enrichment Clusters: A Practical Approach for Developing Investigative Learning Skills by Joseph Renzulli & Sally Reis
- An Infusion-Based Approach to Enriching the Standard-Driven Curriculum by Joseph Renzulli & Nicole Waicunas
- A Technology Based Program That Matches Enrichment Resources With Student Strengths
Best SEM Videos
Short Stuff
Presentations
- Adding Depth and Complexity to Type III Studies: The Schoolwide Enrichment Model [NAGC 2019]
- Using Strength-Based Pedagogy to Engage and Challenge 2E Students Development (Large File)
- SEM Oklahoma Keynote (Large File)
- Schoolwide Enrichment Model Lecture (Large File)
- Renzulli Learning System (Large File)
- Curriculum Compacting
- Challenging High Potential Students Through the Three Es of Personalized Learning Strategies: Enjoyment, Engagement, and Enthusiasm (Large File)
- Texas Gifted Conference, November 2017—The Schoolwide Enrichment Model: The What, Why, Who, and How Part 1 & Part 2 by Joseph Renzulli (Large Files)
- Texas Gifted Conference, November 2017—Curriculum Compacting: A Researchbased Strategy for Differentiating Curriculum and Instruction by Sally Reis (Large File)
- Texas Gifted Conference, November 2017—Increasing Academic Motivation and Preventing Underachievement by Sally Reis (Large File)
General Articles
- Research on the Schoolwide Enrichment Model: Four Decades of Insights, Innovation, and Evolution
- Enriching Students Pays Off: Evidence from an Individualized Gifted and Talented Program in Secondary Education
- A Multi Criteria System for the Identification of High Achieving and Creative/Productive Giftedness
- Major Considerations for the Development of Gifted Program Identification Systems
- The SEM Infusion Based Approach to Curriculum Enrichment: Jazzing Up the Common Core
- The Schoolwide Enrichment Model: A Focus on Student Strengths & Interests [Systems & Models—Chapter 13]
- Expanding the Conception of Giftedness to Include Co-Cognitive Traits and to Promote Social Capital
- The Three Es For Successful Academic Achievement
- Freedom to Teach: Using Investigative Learning to Develop High Potentials in Young People
- The Achievement Gap and the Education Conspiracy Against Low Income Children [Posted with the permission of The International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity]
- Reexamining the Role of Gifted Education and Talent Development for the 21st Century: A Four-Part Theoretical Approach
- Developing Creative Productivity in Young People through the Pursuit of Ideal Acts of Learning
- A Technology Based Program That Matches Enrichment Resources With Student Strengths
- Going Beyond Gutenberg: A New Vision for Personalizing Learning
- The Effects of the Use of Renzulli Learning on Student Achievement in Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Social Studies, and Science
- A Quiet Crisis Clouding the Future R&D People
- Throughout Year, New York District Offers Clusters of Enrichment to All Its Students
- Equity, Excellence, and Economy in a System for Identifying Students in Gifted Education Programs: A Guidebook [Executive Summary]
- What Is Schoolwide Enrichment? And How Do Gifted Programs Relate to Total School Improvement?
- The Schoolwide Enrichment Model [Executive Summary]
- A Rising Tide Lifts All Ships
- A Bird’s Eye View of Schools for Talent Development: A Practical Plan for Total School Improvement
- Relationship Between Gifted Programs and Total School Improvement Using the Schoolwide Enrichment Model
- Lessons Learned From Playground Pedagogy
- From High Potential to Gifted Performance: Encouraging Academically Talented Urban Students
- Curriculum Compacting: A Research-based Differentiation Strategy for Culturally Diverse Talented Students
- Reflections on the Education of Gifted and Talented Students in the Twentieth Century: Milestones in the Development of Talent and Gifts in Young People
- Promoting Creativity in Talented Adolescents
Conceptions of Giftedness and Identification Practices
Articles
- Artistic Choices: A Study of Teachers Who Use the Arts in the Classroom
- The Georgia Story: One State’s Approach to the Underrepresentation Issue
- Assumptions Underlying the Identification of Gifted and Talented Students
- Expanding the Conception of Giftedness to Include Co-cognitive Traits and Promote Social Capital
- What Is This Thing Called Giftedness, and How Do We Develop It? A Twenty-Five Year Perspective
- A Practical System for Identifying Gifted and Talented Students
- The Three-Ring Conception of Giftedness (1998)
- The Three-Ring Conception of Giftedness: A Developmental Model for Promoting Creative Productivity
- Dear Mr. And Mrs. Copernicus: We regret to inform you . . .
- The Definition of High-End Learning
- Reflecting on a Conversation With Joe Renzulli: About Giftedness and Gifted Education
Enrichment Clusters
Articles
- Using Enrichment Clusters to Address the Needs of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners
- Things You Can Do To “Academicize” The Content of Your Enrichment Clusters: A Case Study
- Implementing Enrichment Clusters in a Multiage School: Perspectives from a Principal and Consultant
- Sample Enrichment Clusters for Primary Grades
- So You’re (Thinking of) Starting Enrichment Clusters
Mathematics and Reading
Articles
- Unclogging the Mathematics Pipeline Through Access to Algebraic Understanding
- The Impact of Advanced Curriculum on the Achievement of Mathematically Promising Elementary Students [2009 Research Article of the Year awarded by the National Association for Gifted Children]
- Project M³: Mentoring Mathematical Minds—A Research-Based Curriculum for Talented Elementary Students
- Project M² Evaluations Report for The National Science Foundation (NSF)—Executive Summary
- Project M² Evaluation Report for The National Science Foundation (NSF)— The 2011 Executive Summary
- This About Covers It! Strategies for Finding Area
- Are We Missing Anyone? Identifying Mathematically Promising Students
- Beautiful Minds—An Innovative Math Program Helps Change the Face of Gifted and Talented Education
- Project M³ An Innovative Program to Develop Math Talent
- The Effects of Differentiated Instruction and Enrichment Pedagogy on Reading Achievement in Five Elementary Schools
- Case Studies of Successful Schoolwide Enrichment Model-Reading (SEM-R) Classroom Implementations
- How Academically Gifted Elementary, Urban Students Respond to Challenge in an Enriched, Differentiated Reading Program
- Using Enrichment Reading Practices to Increase Reading, Fluency, Comprehension, and Attitudes
- Self-regulated Learning in Reading: Gifted Pedagogy and Instructional Settings
- Using Planned Enrichment Strategies With Direct Instruction to Improve Reading Fluency, Comprehension, and Attitude Toward Reading: An Evidence-based Study
- Teachers’ Use of Differentiated Reading Strategy Instruction for Talented, Average, and Struggling Readers in SEM-R Classrooms
- Savoring Reading Schoolwide
- The Schoolwide Enrichment Model Reading Study
- Reading Instruction for Talented Readers: Case Studies Documenting Few Opportunities for Continuous Progress
Operation Houndstooth
Articles
- Intelligences Outside the Normal Curve: Co-Cognitive Factors that Contribute to the Creation of Social Capital and Leadership Skills in Young People
- Graphical Representation of Operation Houndstooth
- Factor Analytic Results From a Semantic Differential on the Construct Optimism
- Under Her Spell: An Analysis of the Creativity of J. K. Rowling
Planning and Implementation
Articles
- A Time and a Place for Authentic High-End Learning
- The Academic Backbone of the Enrichment Cluster Experience
- Talents and Type IIIs: The Effect of the Talents Unlimited Model on Creative Productivity in Gifted Youngsters
- The Effectiveness of Curriculum Compacting in First Grade Classroom by Lisa S. Stamps
- How to Develop an Authentic Enrichment Cluster
- A Few Suggestions About How to Make Changes Back Home
- Implementing the Schoolwide Enrichment Model: A Five Stage Planning Process for Consensus Building and the Development of a Mission Statement
- Curriculum Compacting: A Systematic Procedure for Modifying the Curriculum for Above Average Ability Students
- Within-Class Cluster Grouping and Related Strategies: Brief Summaries
- A time and a Place for Authentic Learning
- Julius Deetken—Pioneer Druggist: An Application of the Enrichment Cluster Model to a History Classroom
Gathering Information About Students
Articles
- Underachievement in Exceptionally Gifted Adolescents and Young Adults: A Psychiatrist’s View by Jerald Grobman
[Posted with the permission of Prufrock Press Inc., Journal of Secondary Gifted Education, Vol. 17, No. 4, Summer 2006, pp. 199-210] - The Total Talent Portfolio: A Plan for Identifying and Developing Gifts and Talents
- Exploring Student Preferences For Product Development: My Way. . . An Expression Style Instrument
Research and Evaluation
Articles
- A Case for a Broadened Conception of Giftedness
- Research Related to the Schoolwide Enrichment Triad Model
- The Effectiveness of the Schoolwide Enrichment Model on Selected Aspects of Elementary School Changes
- Research Related to SEM
- SEM Programs and the Achievement Test Dilemma
- Student Product Assessment Form
Middle School Issues
Articles
- Julius Deetken: Pioneer Druggist: An Application of the Enrichment Cluster Model to a History Classroom
- Academies of Inquiry and Talent Development—Part I
- Academies of Inquiry and Talent Development—Part II
Multiple Menu Model for Developing Differentiated Curriculum
Articles
- The Multiple Menu Model for Developing Differentiated Curriculum
- The Multiple Menu Model for Developing Differentiated Curriculum for the Gifted and Talented
- What Makes a Problem Real: Stalking the Illusive Meaning of Qualitative Differences in Gifted Education
- Painting Yourself Into the Professional Growth Picture—Artistic Modification
Underachievement
Articles
- Using Self-Regulated Learning to Reverse Underachievement in Talented Students
- Reconsidering Regular Curriculum for High Achieving Students, Gifted Underachievers, and Relationship between Gifted and Regular Education
- Underachievement in Gifted and Talented Students with Special Needs
- Compensation Strategies Used by High Ability Students with Learning Disabilities
Gifted Women
Articles
- Internal Barriers, Personal Issues & Decisions Faced by Gifted and Talented Females
- External Barriers Experienced by Gifted and Talented Girls and Women
- The Need to Continue Research and Advocacy for Gifted and Talented Girls and Women
Miscellaneous
Articles
- A Cross-cultural Perspective About the Implementation and Adaptation Process of the Schoolwide Enrichment Model: The Importance of Talent Development in a Global World
- Understanding Resilience in Diverse, Talented Students in an Urban High School
- Grouping: A Short, Data Based Primary Journal Research Sources Bibliography
- Twins Included and Not Included in Special Programs for the Gifted
- Standards and Standards Plus: A Good Idea or a New Cage?
- Major Turning Points in Gifted Education in the 20th Century
- Williams Syndrome: A Study of Unique Musical Talents in Persons With Disabilities