The Facilitator’s Handbook for Effective Enrichment: Successfully Implementing the Schoolwide Enrichment Model

The Facilitator’s Handbook for Effective Enrichment provides a clear, practical roadmap for implementing enriching educational activities across the curriculum.

Enrichment-focused and practitioner-friendly, this book provides an implementation structure to help educators use the evidence-based practices of Renzulli’s Enrichment Triad Model, the foundation for Renzulli and Reis’s Schoolwide Enrichment Model, to raise students’ knowledge, skills, motivation, and self-efficacy. Covering the what, why, and how with step-by-step guidance, hands-on strategies, and immediately implementable activity plans, this book provides everything needed to ensure that enrichment is meaningful and empowering for both facilitators and students.

Featuring mini-curricular units aligned to educational standards and a Just for You section designed to support reader growth and confidence as a facilitator, this book is a must-read for anyone working to promote children’s development, regardless of background or experience.

Dr. Carla Brigandi is an Associate Professor at West Virginia University, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Educational Psychology, Research Methods, and Gifted and Special Education.

Dr. Cindy M. Gilson is an Associate Dean of the Honors College and affiliated Associate Professor of Gifted Education in the Special Education and Child Development Department at University of North Carolina at Charlotte.