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Hoagies’ Gifted Education Page is an all-things-gifted website, filled with resources, articles, books and links to help and support parents, teachers, and gifted learners.

Homefires, run by Diane Flynn Keith, is designed to help parents homeschool their children from preschool through high school. The site offers articles, homeschooling facts, support for families, fresh curriculum ideas, and more.

Homeschooling in Vermont is a website that provides resources for parents who homeschool their gifted child. They offer information about curriculum, giftedness, and Vermont’s policies surrounding homeschooling.

This article by Educational Therapist Aimee Yermish answers the question of how to talk to your child to get them ready for taking an assessment test. She addresses common issues, including those that can result in falsely reduced scores among gifted children.

This article retells a parent’s successful advocacy story about how her daughter achieved academic acceleration in school.

Educational neuroscience consultant David A. Sousa continues his tradition of translating new findings into effective classroom strategies and activities in this updated version of his bestselling text. This fifth edition integrates recent developments in neuroscience, education, and psychology and includes

  • New information on memory systems, especially working memory capacity
  • Updated research on how the explosion of technology is affecting the brain
  • Current findings on brain organization and hemispheric specialization
  • New evidence on how learning the arts enhances cognitive processing and creativity
  • An expanded resources section
  • More than 150 new or updated references

John Munro provides a wealth of information in this article that can be passed along to teachers or anyone else who would benefit from a deeper understanding of giftedness. He unpacks different types of giftedness, common characteristics of gifted students, tips for teachers and parents, and more.

This guide is a comprehensive library of over 100 programs for gifted students in grades Pre-K to 12. It was created by Institute for Educational Advancement and is drawn from IEA’s Gifted Resource Center to serve as a useful tool for students, parents, counselors, and anyone working with gifted youth.

Jen Merrill, author of the “Laughing at Chaos” blog, brings laughter, tears, and honesty to her latest book by GHF Press, “If This is a Gift, Can I Send it Back?: Surviving in the Land of the Gifted and Twice Exceptional.” Join Jen on her journey through discovery, understanding, and acceptance, as she copes with the challenges that only the gifted and twice exceptional can create.

Lack of access to gifted education is prevalent, yet preventable for Black and Hispanic students. In this article, Brian L. Wright, Donna Y. Ford, and Jemimah L. Young share data on under-representation in the U.S., along with contributing factors and recommendations.

This blog by the mother of a gifted child focuses on the importance of advocacy for gifted learners and the ins and outs of gifted homeschooling as she finds what works best for her daughter’s learning needs.

In this book, Wendy Skinner shares her family’s story of struggle and eventual success in working with the schools and trying out various educational options to meet her children’s needs. Anecdotes of the author’s experiences and discussions of a variety of educational approaches will help parents reading this book discover effective strategies for minimizing parent-school conflict. Learn how to build trusting relationships with teachers and administrators, as well as how your voice can influence school decisions that will allow your gifted child to learn and thrive.

Gifted student Cassidy Kao published her first book at 8 years old and founded iPoetTree at 12 years old. The nonprofit organization seeks to inspire a passion for writing in kids kindergarten to sixth grade. Cassidy provides a fun and free curriculum, supportive environment for sharing poems, and assistance with becoming a published author like her.

Written by Gifted expert and Newberry Honor Award-winning Author, Stephanie Tolan, Is It a Cheetah uses metaphorical language to  help us see the problem with achievement-oriented thinking when it comes to gifted children.

This helpful guide walks parents through the terminology, signs, and challenges associated with twice exceptionality, as well as information about testing and the best ways to empower children who are 2e.

This article is the second in a series of three on the processes parents go through in raising an exceptionally gifted child. This article, based on a study of 12 exceptionally gifted students, is a discussion of the educational experiences of these students and the controversies that their parents confronted regarding schooling, specifically regarding: gifted stereotypes, friendships with like-minded peers, and educational resolutions for reading, writing and mathematics.