Gifted Jaguars and Eagles

Looking for a good book to read?  I am really enjoying reading Donna Ford's Multicultural Gifted Education .    I love getting to read about both topics but have never gotten to read where the author integrated these two perspectives together.  I think I'm going to need to read this book twice just to absorb all this info.  I highly recommend it to fellow teachers!

I recently read Quiet Power:  The Secret Strengths of Introverts by Susan Cain .  For those of you who know me you know I am not an introvert.  :). However I am married to a gifted introvert and I have a lot of gifted introverts in DAHS so I wanted to read this book because it came highly recommended and because I wanted to understand people different from me. The book is engaging and easy to read.  It does a great job of helping perfectionist introverts with strategies for being able to participate in class discussions and in school.  I think the chapters on "Quiet in the Classroom", "Group Projects, the Introverted Way", "Quiet Leaders", "Quiet Creativity" and "Quiet in the Spotlight" are especially helpful for high school students who are struggling academically because of their fear of speaking or failure and for parents who are trying to figure out how to support their students. I recommend the book for both teens and parents. ...