Exquisite Minds, headed by national award-winning teacher Stacia Garland, believes in the importance of cultivating creativity in bright and gifted children. They offer support to parents and educators who want to challenge children to find new and constructive ways to look at the world.
James T. Webb, Ph.D. is a guest on this episode of this parenting video podcast hosted by Annie Fox, M.Ed. This episode focuses on the special needs of gifted kids and how their parents can help them understand and use their gifts well.
The author of this book, Aparna Varadharajan, has an educational philosophy that encourages questions and intellectual curiosity. This book helps students view learning as an interdisciplinary, exciting process while giving them questions to ponder and is especially well-suited for curious gifted children. The author homeschools her child but is a designer by trade and has designed many educational products.
When it comes to change, it’s more than “normal” for us to wander, worry, and feel a little unsure during these times. The “Finding Your Path” series was created to tackle the transitions of youth, when we need that little bit of extra help. They target specific transitions: finishing high school, starting high school, and starting big school.
This 2018 CNN article goes through techniques to recognize, understand, and meet gifted children’s needs without “helicopter parenting.”
Parents, advocates, educators, and attorneys come to this website to learn effective advocacy skills. You will learn to recognize pitfalls and avoid mistakes that prevent parents from successfully advocating for their children.
This site is the companion website to Wrightslaw: From Emotions to Advocacy, 2nd Edition- The Special Education Survival Guide (ISBN 978-1-892320-09-4) by Pamela Wright and Peter Wright, published by Harbor House Law Press.
This research by Camilla Benbow and David Lubinski finds that the future career path and creative direction of gifted youth can be predicted well by their performance on the SAT at age 13. Drawing from the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth or SMPY, which is tracking 5,000 individuals over 50 years identified at age 13 as being highly intelligent by their SAT scores, the study offers insights into how best to identify the nation’s most talented youth.
In this book, Jan and Bob Davidson and Laura Vanderkam show parents and educators how to reach and challenge gifted students. They offer practical advice based on their experience as founders of a nonprofit organization that assists gifted children. They show parents how to become their children’s advocates, how to win support for gifted students within the local schools, and when and how to go outside the school system. They discuss everything from acceleration (“skipping” a grade) to homeschooling and finding mentors for children. They tell stories of real parents and students who overcame poor schooling environments to discover the joy of learning.
Gift of Logic has created critical thinking and logical reasoning curriculum for grades K-12 that can be used for either core or enrichment learning. Students learn to solve problems using critical reading, critical thinking, logic, inferencing, argumentation, positioning, grouping, paper folding, figure formation, and more. Each workbook level builds upon each other, so individuals learn progressively and build their skills over time.
This article by Angela Burke unpacks research on how gifted children are impacted by loss. She goes through how symptoms of grief may appear intensified in gifted children, as well has how to support them during difficult times.
The Center for Gifted Education Policy (CGEP), which is housed in APA’s Education Directorate, focuses on gifted and talented PreK-12 education, teaching, and learning. CGEP is also particularly interested in researching the role of psycho-social skills in talent development and high performance in all domains.
Gifted and Talented International (GTI) is the journal of the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children. This journal is devoted to publishing original research, theoretical studies, review papers or accounts of practice that contribute to our understanding and promotion of giftedness, talent, creativity, and optimal development of children, adolescents, and adults. Its purpose is to share current theory, research, and practice in gifted education with its audience of international educators, scholars, researchers, and parents. GTI is published twice a year.
Gifted Atlanta is an online resource for the gifted community in Atlanta, Georgia. They provide information about gifted education, enrichment, summer programs, early college, and gifted advocacy in the Atlanta area.
Gifted Child Quarterly (GCQ) is the premier scholarly journal of the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC). Since 1957, GCQ has published articles that offer research findings and new and creative insights about giftedness and talent development in the context of the school, the home, and the world.
GCQ publishes original scholarly reviews of literature as well as quantitative and qualitative research studies that explore the characteristics of gifted students, program models, curriculum and other areas of importance in understanding and maximizing the development and education of gifted students. The journal also publishes articles that explore policy and policy implications.
Gifted Child Today (GCT) offers timely information about teaching and parenting gifted and talented children. The journal provides critical information for teachers and administrators involved with gifted children. GCT includes articles about topics such as teaching strategies in gifted education, building a more effective gifted and talented program, and working with gifted children with learning disabilities.
The current issues faced by gifted students with learning disabilities are explained in this article by Linda Brody and Carol Mills. Gifted definitions, programs, resources, and recommendations are discussed. Both Brody and Mills are research directors at the Center for Talented youth of Johns Hopkins University.
