IEA | Connecting bright minds; nurturing intellectual and personal growth

IEA STATEMENT REGARDING COVID-19 AND CURRENT PUBLIC HEALTH CONCERNS

As one of the nation’s leading organizations for gifted and talented youth, Institute for Educational Advancement (IEA) is dedicated to the whole child, supporting gifted children ages 2-18. The IEA community affords gifted children the opportunity to enhance their high intellectual ability while meeting their emotional, social, physical, and spiritual needs. IEA provides customized programs that match each student’s unique gifts and talents with the most appropriate mentors, schools, and other learning environments to maximize intellectual and personal development.

Serving gifted youth ages 2-18

WHAT IS GIFTED?

There are more than 3 million gifted students in the United States, and most of their needs are not currently being met or they go unrecognized. Could your child be one of them?

OUR MISSION

The Institute for Educational Advancement (IEA) is dedicated to the intellectual, creative, and personal growth of our nation’s gifted and high-potential youth. Central to the mission of IEA is a commitment to the development of the whole child through engaging educational experiences that promote optimal challenge, mentorship, exploration of ideas, and recognition of personal potential.

What is Gifted?

What is giftedness? Educators, researchers, developmental psychologists, and parents of gifted children alike have found it difficult to answer this seemingly basic question. Is it something innate or something learned? Are individuals gifted whether or not they achieve or find eminence?

Gifted Resource Center

Providing a customized starting point for gifted students and parents. Search for scholarship opportunities, testing information, gifted schools, counselors, and more.

IEA Programs

Offering personalized programs that are child centered and have been helping children grow and lead purposeful, meaningful lives in whichever pursuit they choose.

IEA Services

IEA provides a variety of consulting and resource services to families, schools, and districts with highly gifted children.

Caroline D. Bradley Scholarship

Offering the only merit-based, need-blind high school scholarship to highly gifted students across the United States.

Visit Us

Our doors are always open, and we welcome the chance to speak with you about IEA programs and services.

CONTACT & DIRECTIONS

Contribute

Contribute with a one-time gift, make a sustaining donation, or join the Nautilus Society and watch your gift grow exponentially over the years. Gifted children need your help.