The four parallels are a powerful gifted education strategy that can help students apply what they have learned to solve real-world problems. By engaging with the core curriculum, making connections, putting learning into practice, and reflecting on how that learning might positively impact themselves and their communities, students can move beyond basic proficiency and into mastery and expertise. This session introduces teachers to the parallels from the student perspective and engages them in a design process for community action that can then be applied in their own classrooms.