“…Gifted education programs are typically exclusively for individuals who meet IQ and other program criteria, but in the talent-development paradigm, practices, such as enrichment (discussed below) would be offered to all students (Paul & Seward, 2016). The guiding belief in the talent-development framework is that early opportunities for advanced learning may spark interest and learning among students from a variety of backgrounds and should not be limited to only those young learners that have demonstrated intellectual giftedness early on (Paul & Seward, 2016;Subotnik & Olszewski-Kubilius, 1997). As such, a continuum of services model has been recommended (Paul & Seward, 2016) for talent development, to include enrichment opportunities, advanced/accelerated learning, connections with others with similar abilities and interests, and guidance in developing personal talent skills (i.e., goal selection, decision-making, self-regulation (Moon, 2003).…”