When I say that myths and misunderstandings about giftedness abound in our school systems, I know this fact first-hand–there are schools, administrators and teachers who really don’t understand giftedness at all. Of course, this is not true of all teachers, but it is true of many who received little to no information about giftedness in their college education curriculum.
Public schools are underserving and miseducating our gifted learners, and they have for decades. This failure continues despite what research has shown us as well as the ever-increasing…
Miseducated. Underserved. Unchallenged. Neglected. Misunderstood. Mislabeled. This is a pretty grim string of adjectives that can accurately describe the lives of many of our gifted children in…
I think back before my youngest gifted son was born and I too did not understand how difficult the journey of parenting a highly gifted child could be….
Have you heard the term Tall Poppy Syndrome? Generally, a tall poppy is a person who stands head and shoulders above others for various reasons such as intelligence,…
Crushing Tall Poppies
