Articles & Media

Emily Murman speaks about the stigma attached to giftedness, the stereotypes she has faced, and the challenges she has overcome to become a college freshman at fifteen years old.

This site, run by teacher and advocate for the gifted and talented, Angie French, provides information and resources for the gifted community. She offers helpful pages of links for parents, students, and teachers in addition to running a Twitter account to share information for the gifted.

This site gathers recent articles from around the web related to gifted learners and educational technology. It is moderated by Audrey Peacock, a gifted specialist and former President of the Alabama Association for Gifted Children (AAGC).

The Common Mom is a blog started by the mother of a gifted child. She discusses her journey of raising a gifted child, as well as other topics in the field of gifted education. She hopes to create a space for networking and sharing resources within the gifted community.

This article focuses on kids need to be creative, and understanding how creativity works by understanding the difference between convergent and divergent thinking, and how to address the lack of divergent thinking in education.

The Fissure is created by NuMinds Enrichment, a revolutionary educational enrichment company based out of Dallas, Texas. This blog is an outlet for real, inspired writing on education and the evolution of learning in the 21st century. There are several articles focused on gifted education.

This documentary (still in production as of December 2018, but a trailer is available) will focus on the mythology of what it means to be gifted in the 21st century. It aims to reveal the educational challenges, social isolation, emotional sensitivities and physical threats faced by many gifted individuals in our society, then examine the search for solutions. Viewers of The G Word will come away understanding the risks of maintaining the status quo and the need for new approaches to harness the potential of gifted individuals.

Psychologist Mary-Elaine Jacobsen’s book draws on a wide range of groundbreaking research and her own clinical experience to show America’s twenty million gifted adults how to identify and free their extraordinary potential. Demystifying what it means to be a gifted adult, this book offers practical guidance for eliminating self-sabotage and underachievement.

In this workbook, a therapist offers fun activities and strategies to help children ages 7 to 12 boost self-confidence, reduce stress and overwhelm, and balance emotions.

Based on new surveys of nearly 1,500 gifted teens, this book is the ultimate guide to thriving in a world that doesn’t always support or understand high ability. Full of surprising facts, survey results, step-by-step strategies, inspiring teen quotes, and insightful expert essays, the guide gives readers the tools they need to appreciate their giftedness as an asset and use it to make the most of who they are. Authors Judy Galbraith and Jim Delisle have revised the fourth edition for a new generation of high-end learners.

The High Flyer is a unique collaboration between the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. Both organizations aim to expand the public’s understanding of the needs of gifted and talented children, to increase public urgency to serve them, and to dispel common myths.