The International School of the Stockholm Region (ISSR) in Stockholm, Sweden, offers professional learning experiences to its staff that aim to facilitate sustainable changes in curricular and instructional practices applied to teaching high ability students, and increase awareness of and support for twice-exceptional and multi exceptional students. These learning experiences follow the Global Principles for Professional Learning in Gifted Education (World Council for Gifted and Talented Children, 2021), the guiding principles in developing equity-driven professional learning in gifted education (Nowak, Lewis and Weber, 2020), and the features of effective professional development outlined by Darling-Hammond et al. (2017). According to Darling-Hammond and collaborators, an effective professional development is content-focused, incorporates active learning, supports collaboration, uses models of effective practice, provides coaching and expert support, offers feedback and reflection, and is of sustained duration.

In the period 2022-2024, ISSR offered ongoing, job-embedded and targeted professional learning experiences (e.g., online learning – eGift, study circles, coaching) to its staff (e.g., teachers, learning support staff, school counsellor). In this presentation, examples and lessons learned will be discussed in conjunction with WCGTC’s global principles and issues of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA) in gifted education.