Written by Deborah Reber, a mother of a son who is twice exceptional, this book unpacks the challenges that children with neurodifferences and their parents face. She offers 18 paradigm shifts or “tilts” that help parents become exceptional parents to their exceptional children.
Diverse: Issues In Higher Education stands alone as the only source of critical news, information and insightful commentary on the full range of issues concerning diversity in American higher education. Diverse began writing about diversity in higher education long before diversity and multiculturalism became “hot-button” issues. Today, their mission remains as true as it was more than 30 years ago: to provide information that is honest, thorough and balanced. They seek, through traditional and nontraditional media, to be change agents and generate public policies that resolve inequities that still exist today. In fulfilling their mission, they believe in helping to build the educational, cultural, social and economic structures necessary to allow every individual to reach his or her full potential, and thus contribute to the greater good of their community and the nation.
With Doing Poorly on Purpose, veteran educator Dr. Jim R. Delisle dispels the negative associations and stereotypes connected to underachievement. By focusing on smart kids who get poor grades—not because they’re unable to do better in school but because they don’t want to—Delisle presents a snapshot of underachievement far from the common perception.
Duke University Talent Identification Program (TIP) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving academically gifted and talented youth from fourth through twelfth grade. Duke TIP works with students, their families, and educators to identify, recognize, challenge, engage, and help students reach their highest potential. Duke TIP also offers gifted students a wide range of independent and distance learning courses.
At a time when the U.S. education system consistently lags behind its international peers, Dumbing Down America shows exactly why America can’t keep up by providing a critical look at the nation’s schools through the eyes of the children whose minds are languishing in countless classrooms. Filled with specific examples of how gifted children are being shortchanged by a nation that believes smart kids will succeed on their own, Dumbing Down America packs a powerful message: If we want our nation to prosper, we must pay attention to its most intelligent youth. Author James R. Delisle, PhD., provides a template of what can and must happen in America’s schools if they are to fulfill their mission of educating every child to the fullest potential.
Early Childhood Gifted Education, by Nancy Hertzog, presents an array of strategies that facilitate the growth and development of young gifted children. From creating a literacy-rich environment to affording opportunities for inquiry, the implementation of the strategies presented is sure to empower young children to pursue and develop their gifts and talents.
How well educators manage to adjust the common core to the needs of each student could prove pivotal scholastically, but also politically, as the standards themselves face skepticism in the states. This special report looks at the challenges educators face in adapting the standards for students with disabilities, English-learners, and gifted students.
This article by Julia Osborn is the third in a series of three articles on the processes parents go through in raising an exceptionally gifted child. This article, based on a study of 12 exceptionally gifted students, discusses the experiences of these parents in advocating for appropriate school placement for their children. A list of practical advocacy recommendations is included.
In this 2018 article in the New York Times, Dana Goldstein unpacks the “excellence gap” and how it can be narrowed by changes to elite programs.
Elevated Giftedness provides information and services to parents of gifted students, teachers who have gifted students in their classes, and administration who want help with gifted programming and staff education.
Each week, Aurora Remember Holtzman interviews a gifted, creative, and outside-the-box thinker who embodies what it means to embrace intensity in order to show you how to embrace your life in its fullest. Past guests include Melanie Hayes, Julie Skolnick, and many more.
This book aims to help parents and teachers not only understand why gifted children are so extreme in their behavior, but also to learn specific strategies to teach gifted children how to live with their intensity. Worksheets, tip sheets, and checklists are included to help parents, teachers, and the students themselves learn to cope with the explosive feelings that often accompany giftedness.
Engine-Uity, Ltd. offers curricula and materials for teaching gifted and talented students. All materials include all six levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy, are research-based and differentiated, and include open-ended tasks with opportunities for students to share what they learn in a variety of ways.
Gifted education specialist Christopher Taibbi gives parents four essential questions to ask when looking to find the right program for their gifted child.
This comprehensive latest edition of “Excellence in Educating Gifted and Talented Learners” is packed with ideas for effective curriculum and instruction of talented learners. You’ll find it covers personality, learners with disabilities, learning styles, and also stages of giftedness from infancy all the way to adulthood. It not only gives the characteristics and needs, but talks about grouping and acceleration and offers a comprehensive model of program development. Special attention is given to mathematics, science, social studies, and the humanities.
