Thursday, April 27, 2023
Twelve years ago, I started my gifted advocacy journey. After years of misunderstanding—on my part, the school’s part, and society’s part—I found myself frustrated, confused, fearful, and also angry. How can a school ignore a student who is clearly ahead of his classmates and shows mastery of all content at his current grade level? How can a teacher give busywork to a student who consistently completes his classwork long before every other student? How can a principal tell a parent, “He’s making straight A’s! What more do you want? Let him slide instead of moving him up a grade level.”
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Friday, November 1, 2019
Shaming any child damages their self-esteem, delivers a significant blow to their self-confidence, and impacts their motivation to succeed in school. Once shut down and shamed, avoiding any display of their exhilaration for learning becomes the only path forward for many gifted students.
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Monday, October 22, 2018
You’re the parent of a gifted child, or maybe all of your children are gifted. If you are just starting out on this journey, you may not as…
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Friday, August 10, 2018
Or to put it another way: we need to sever the misleading associative ties between giftedness and educational achievement that are so pervasive and harmful. Lately, I’ve wondered…
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Saturday, April 14, 2018
Are you teaching or parenting a 2e child? Are you looking for tried-and-true strategies which can work in the classroom, at home or with homeschooling your 2e child?…
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Monday, February 19, 2018
The Fear Raising a gifted child can be hard, it can be stressful, it can be heartbreaking, it can be confusing, it can be overwhelming,…
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Friday, July 21, 2017
Ignorance is bliss. I’ve come across this snippet of a quote through the years without more than a few seconds of consideration to its true…
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Monday, March 13, 2017
To the parents who wish for their child to be gifted. To the teachers who think gifted children should easily excel in school. Or for that matter, to…
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Monday, November 28, 2016
Do you remember your childhood and thinking, being gifted surely was no added bonus? As you watch your child’s giftedness put roadblocks in front of him, are you…
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Monday, November 14, 2016
Emile, a 13-year old, hates school and is convinced he can’t learn. Worse, he feels—no, he knows—he doesn’t often fit in with his age mates. Although he used…
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Crushing Tall Poppies
