Dr. Julia Link Roberts and Tracy Ford Inman of The Center for Gifted Studies at WKU have received a 2009 Legacy Book™ Award from the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented (TAGT).
Dr. Roberts and Inman were honored with the Legacy Book™Award for the Most Outstanding Book for Educators for Strategies for Differentiating Instruction: Best Practices for the Classroom (published by Prufrock Press).
The Legacy Book™Awards are recognized nationally and honor outstanding literature related to gifted children and their education. TAGT distributes nominated books to a nationwide panel of reviewers who evaluate the books according to their long-term potential for improving the lives of gifted youth.
“We are honored to have our book recognized on a national level,” Dr. Roberts said. “Our goal was to write the book to be useful to preservice teachers and teachers new to differentiation as they implement strategies to ensure that each student makes continuous progress.”
Dr. Roberts is the Mahurin Professor of Gifted Studies and executive director of The Center for Gifted Studies at WKU and the Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science in Kentucky. Inman is associate director of The Center for Gifted Studies at WKU.
Other winners include Carol Fertig’s Raising a Gifted Child: A Parenting Success Handbook (also from Prufrock) as the Most Outstanding Book for Parents; Social-Emotional Curriculum with Gifted and Talented Students, edited by Dr. Joyce VanTassel-Baska, Dr. Tracy L. Cross and Dr. F. Richard Olenchak (Prufrock Press), as the Most Outstanding Book for Scholars.
Prufrock, the nation’s leading resource for gifted and advanced learners, also published Roberts’ and Inman’s book Assessing Differentiated Student Products: A Protocol for Development and Evaluation.
TAGT will recognize the Legacy Book™ Award honorees Dec. 3 during the First General Session of the annual TAGT Professional Development Conference: Growing their Gifts at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston. In addition, TAGT has invited the authors to present sessions during the conference.
Contact: Gifted Studies, (270) 745-6323; or TAGT, (512) 499-8248.
