Project EAGLE can now be found on the social media app Blue Sky!
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January 10, 2025
Social Media Update
December 18, 2024
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Sodergren Joins EAGLE Team
December 12, 2024
Dr. Celeste Sodergren has joined the Project EAGLE team as a Postdoctoral Research Associate! Dr. Sodergren obtained her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology in Gifted Education from Baylor University in the summer of 2024 and joined the team in the fall. Celeste comes to the Renzulli Center with a background in communication and in district leadership in gifted education. Her research interests include the development of gifted education leaders, the needs of parents of gifted students, and how we might leverage non-cognitive factors in intelligence to strengthen gifted students’ success in academics and in life. She is particularly excited about the next phase of Project EAGLE, in which we are recruiting teachers to be trainers.
Dr. Sodergren notes, “I am excited to be welcomed to this remarkable team and I am looking forward to the work we will accomplish together. Empowering teachers with new skills, ideas, and opportunities is one of my favorite things to do, and I am grateful for the opportunity to join Project EAGLE in time to be a part of this important work.”
Professional Learning Videos
May 20, 2023
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The Project EAGLE team is working with the Eyeglue video team to produce professional learning videos featuring the Points of Promise checklist.
Project EAGLE Featured in UConn Today
October 4, 2022
A team of Neag School of Education researchers is developing a new initiative designed to help educators overcome language differences to identify gifted students among English learners.
Project EAGLE (Eliciting Advanced Gifted Learning Evidence) is one of several gifted education grants at UConn, including the National Center for Research on Gifted Education (NCRGE), that address unrecognized talent in schools. (Read more)
Project EAGLE funded for $2.9 million
September 20, 2022
Renzulli Center Director Del Siegle (PI), along with D. Betsy McCoach (Co-PI) and Susan Dulong Langley, has received a $2.9 million Javits grant to improve identification of English learners (ELs) for gifted services. ELs are among the most underidentified of groups, while being the fastest growing population. The researchers note that static assessment measures (e.g., IQ and achievement tests) have not been effective in identifying the broad range of gifts evident across diverse populations, including ELs. Project EAGLE (Eliciting Advanced Gifted Learning Evidence) addresses this problem by refining and validating a dynamic identification approach that involves teachers reviewing a list of characteristics that mathematically talented students in Grades 3 and 4 exhibit while they interact with and observe the students engaging in problem-based activities. The grant also provides funding for 15 trainers to provide workshops to teachers on how to implement the no-cost identification system. The researchers will be recruiting a full-time post doc with experience in math education and English learners to assist with the research.
