The impact of a book that speaks to us regardless of time or life circumstance is golden. It can touch us in ways that are inspiring, grounding, comforting, entertaining, and enlightening. Whether you are opening a classic you’ve never read before or returning to an...
IEA kicked off our Read-a-Thon just over a week ago! Since then we have held our kickoff event, our first game of trivia, and we are getting set for our first round of virtual book clubs. In times like these, our IEA family is more...
Distance learning for many parents and students is a new concept and can be challenging. This year parents will have to be more involved than ever in being a teaching partner. Students will need to stay focused and engaged and parents may need some tools...
The Institute for Educational Advancement (IEA) announces the award recipients of the Caroline D. Bradley Scholarship (CDB) for the class of 2025, a four-year high school scholarship for gifted learners to attend an optimally matched high school program to help them work toward meeting their...
By Calder Hansen·calder@onlinefriendships.info This is a guest post from Caroline D. Bradley Scholar Calder Hansen. You can check out the full link here. Hi, I’m Calder. I had an unconventional high school education centered around an online school with an online community, so I have had a...
By Nicole Endacott, Senior Program Coordinator How we use technology is more important than ever these days – our education, advocacy, work and social lives are primarily limited to online settings. In light of youth’s increased reliance on technology as well as current racial and social...
By Lucy Blagg Earlier this year, I read a book called Slow Looking by Shari Tishman. Tishman is a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education whose research “focuses on the development of thinking and understanding, the role of close observation in learning, and learning...
Creative Problem Solving III - Working Backwards In this video, 2023 CDB Scholar Arul Kolla continues the series of videos about creative problem solving by talking about working backward. Sometimes, we're given the end state of a series of actions and are asked to find the...
By Qiao Li, IEA Program Coordinator “Asking if Yunasa is worth it is like asking if a diamond sparkles. This camp has given me so much and I truly hope that I can give back a fraction of what I have received from it. I took...
This series of videos, presented by Umar Ahmed Badami (CDB 2021 and CEO of Brilliants, a tutoring organization dedicated to helping underrepresented minorities) will discuss the history and cultural evolution of Japan, from ancient times through the present. In Lesson 1, we’ll discuss the geography...
By Jennifer de la Haye This week, I had an opportunity to observe a session of Spyglass, IEA’s new distance learning program that brings professionals and students together via Zoom for specialized workshops. This particular session was the 4th class in a 6-part series for children ages 9-12. The...
Creative Problem Solving II - Changing Your Point of View In this video, 2023 CDB Scholar Arul Kolla continues the series of videos about creative problem solving by talking about changing your point of view. In many problems, we often get stuck after trying for...
Mathematical Poetry - Topology This is the third part of a series of new poetry workshops, pairing up math and poetry. In this video, Cassidy Kao will introduce the basic concept of Topology, teach students to write a "three-line transforming poem" and create their own Mobius...
By Jennifer De La Haye Dan Tichenor is a beloved Yunasa Fellow and friend of IEA. During our virtual Yunasa West session, Dan led a workshop about self-kindness, a topic that seems especially important right now, when everything feels upside down. I conducted an interview with...
By Amber McClarin, IEA Enrollment Coordinator Summer plans may not be shaping up the way we had imagined, but that doesn’t mean that traveling to new and exciting places are off the table. There are no limits to where our minds can take us. No matter...
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This is the second part of a series of new poetry workshops, pairing up math and poetry. In this video, Cassidy Kao will introduce basic fractals and teach students to create their own fractal designs and three types of "Fractal poems". This workshop is recommended for...
By Ashley Prior, Marketing and Communications Coordinator This summer’s ever-changing landscape provides children and youth of all ages an opportunity to participate in fun, challenging learning through IEA’s virtual programs. When the Institute for Educational Advancement (IEA) made the difficult decision to cancel all in-person summer...
Dear IEA Families, The Institute for Educational Advancement (IEA) is deeply saddened by the most recent examples of the horrific injustice that has plagued our nation’s Black community for far too long. We join communities around the world that are banding together to mourn and work towards social...
Physics seems to work well on human scales, but why does classical physics seem to break at the largest and smallest ones? This series of videos, presented by Umar Ahmed Badami (CDB 2021 and CEO of Brilliants, a tutoring organization dedicated to helping underrepresented minorities)...
Patsy Kumekawa and her husband Michael are well known in the gifted community through their organization, Scholar Search Associates. For several years, IEA has partnered with Scholar Search to represent our organization and programs at various school fairs and gifted conferences throughout the country. Below,...
Physics seems to work well on human scales, but why does classical physics seem to break at the largest and smallest ones? This series of videos, presented by Umar Ahmed Badami (CDB 2021 and CEO of Brilliants, a tutoring organization dedicated to helping underrepresented minorities)...
By Nicole Endacott, Program Coordinator Each person on the Academy team misses our extraordinary students! I, for one, am looking forward to being back in person to check progress on Rubik’s Cube solving times, see pictures of growing puppies and kittens, and hear everyone’s latest research...
By Alexis Hopper, Program Coordinator In celebration and in honor of Teacher Appreciation week, I’d like to take this opportunity to send a very special thank you to each of our Spring Academy instructors. Academy teachers bring passion and expertise in carrying out IEA’s mission of helping...
By Jennifer De La Haye “The word ‘education’ comes from the Latin ‘educere’= e (out of) + ducere (to draw). Education is not just about putting information in. We have forgotten that it, in fact, begins in the child’s heart.” -Vince Gowmon Wonderful things happen when educators...