Researcher. The researcher also served as the participants’ full-time classroom
teacher. She taught most of their subjects (e.g., math, reading, social studies, etc.) except
for physical education and music, and thus had them nearly all day. The researcher had
been an elementary teacher for more than 25 years. She began her career in California
teaching in a regular classroom with a cluster of gifted students. Having grown up
participating in the early years of gifted education in a pull-out program herself, she had
always had a good understanding of these students. For the last 2 years of her work in