Resources from Our Community

Senior Fellows

Patricia Gatto-Walden, Ph.D.

Embracing the Whole Gifted Self

Elizabeth Meckstroth, M.S.W. Emeritus

Acceleration for Gifted Learners, K-5

Teaching Young Gifted Children in the Regular Classroom

Guiding the Gifted Child: A Practical Source for Parents and Teachers (with Stephanie Tolan)

Michael M. Piechowski, Ph.D.

Off the Charts: Asynchrony and the Gifted Child (with Stephanie Tolan)

Mellow Out, They Say. If I Only Could

Living With Intensity: Understanding the Sensitivity, Excitability, and the Emotional Development of Gifted Children, Adolescents, and Adults

Stephanie Tolan, M.A.

Out of Sync: Essays on Giftedness

Off the Charts: Asynchrony and the Gifted Child (with Michael M. Piechowski)

Is It a Cheetah?

Guiding the Gifted Child: A Practical Source for Parents and Teachers (with Elizabeth Meckstroth)

Fellows

James Delisle, Ph.D.

When Gifted Kids Don’t Have All the Answers: How to Meet Their Social and Emotional Needs

Dumbing Down America: The War on Our Nation’s Brightest Young Minds

If I’m So Smart, Why Aren’t the Answers Easy?

The Gifted Teen Survival Guide: Smart, Sharp, and Ready for (Almost) Anything

Parenting Gifted Kids: Tips for Raising Happy and Successful Children

Barefoot Irreverence: A Collection of Writings on Gifted Child Education

Shelagh Gallagher, Ph.D.

Teaching the Gifted Child

EXPLORE Mentors

Dr. Van Savage, Ph.D

Professor; Principal Investigator, UCLA Dept. of Biomathematics,Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Selected Publications:
Using fractal geometry and universal growth curves as diagnostics for comparing tumor vasculature and metabolic rate with healthy tissue and for predicting response to drug therapy

Dimensionality of consumer seach space drives trophic interaction strengths

A framework for elucidating the temperature dependence of fitness

A species-level model for metabolic scaling in trees I: Exploring boundaries to scaling spaces within and across species