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Looking for Services...
The adventures I experienced the past few weeks trying to find a good High School fit for my daughter--Band, Academics, GT...
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What Diversity Do You Bring?
I was asked this question once on an application to serve on a GT advocacy type panel. This was a good question in the light of the lack...
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daVinci Syndrome
daVinci Syndrome--a collective problem in gifted, or asynchronous learners, where the individual is intrinsically motivated to learn, but...
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Has it been 6 Months?
No excuses. OK, so excuses. Much traveling, new text books, new systems, writing GT ISP curriculum, taking the GT certification test,...
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Are you engaging?
Found and article through TAGT's newsletter about engaging the gifted learner--jumped a link to another article by Jeffrey Shoemaker...
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A Century Later...
One hundred years ago... A woman apparently ahead of the gifted education game, possibly the original gifted guru, Leta Setter...
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Is IQ Testing the Best Option?
How do we identify? How do we identify those people groups who are under represented? Gifted has been defined as a function of IQ, but,...
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Purpose Based Learning
Read a validating post from one of my favorite blogs, Upcyled Education, on purpose based learning. This phrase seems to flow with what...
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The Gifted Label
I really like this blog I have stumbled upon: Teachery Confessions. Blogger has a fresh way of voicing the thoughts rambling around in...
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Mindset
Image: Mindsetmax.com What mindset are you? What mindset do you seek? In her book Mindset, Carol S. Dweck writes about recognizing your...