By Qiao Li, Yunasa Program Coordinator IEA’s annual Yunasa camp concluded powerfully at Camp Copneconic in Fenton, Michigan! Throughout the week, we watched all 79 campers – including 23 leadership campers – get to know themselves and each other in gentle yet profound ways. As ever,...
By Amber McClarin, IEA Enrollment Coordinator The nation's children are headed back into the classroom as the 2019-2020 school year gets underway! New beginnings can be a grab bag of emotions. Excitement, fear, anticipation - going back to school is not for the faint of heart....
By Alexis Hopper, IEA Program Coordinator Academy courses encourage students to take the lead in their learning process. But what do young inquisitive minds find so compelling about the content? Read on for five hallmarks of what makes these, and other fall courses speak to the...
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By Felicia V. Gaddis Summer has arrived, school is out and you are probably trying to find something for your young gifted child to do that will engage and satisfy their insatiable curiosity. May I suggest conducting a backyard safari? Backyard Safari is a creative way to...
By Anvi Kevany, IEA Administrative Assistant Summer is here and you may be wondering what programs or activities are available for your child to attend. We have done some research for you and compiled a list of fantastic Summer programs that serve gifted youth. All these...
By Alexis Hopper, IEA Program Coordinator To celebrate National Inventors Month, Alexis Hopper put together a blog post highlighting IEA Student Inventions through The Process of Inventing. “An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.”...
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by Brianna Safe, Caroline D. Bradley Scholarship Associate The subtitle for this year’s seminar theme easily could have been something akin to: “How to Talk About Rejection and Failure in a Room Full of People.” Talk about vulnerability… Rejection can be hard enough to acknowledge on...
The Institute for Educational Advancement (IEA) is excited to announce the release of the full results of IEA's poll of voters about gifted learners, the first of its kind. America Agrees: Public Attitudes Towards Gifted Education details the full results of IEA’s poll of voters’ opinions...
by Dr. Julie Hopper, LABS Facilitator (This post originally appeared on Dr. Hopper's website. It has been reposted with permission.) This weekend I had the awesome opportunity to spread my enthusiasm for parasites with middle schoolers at a science workshop through the LABS program at The Institute...
by Morgan Carrion, Assistant to the President On February 9, 2019, IEA celebrated its 20th anniversary! The event took place at Annandale Golf Club with over 100 guests in attendance. Student volunteers played music, facilitated jeopardy and mingled with guests. One family even put on a...
by Marielle Kang, EXPLORE Extern In July of last year, I had the opportunity to work with Dr. Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy, an ethnomusicology professor at UCLA, at Apsara Media. I helped Dr. Amy with her work with the Sidi people, an African, Sufi minority in India. In...
by Hillary Jade, Program Manager It’s hard to believe, but we’re already well into the new year: 2019. Despite heavy rains – much-needed and welcomed throughout Los Angeles County – in IEA’s home city of Pasadena, CA, the future looks bright! With the rainfall comes the...
by Ashley Manalad, EXPLORE Extern Going into high school, I was dead set on becoming an engineer. Although art was one of my passions, I never really realized what value my art skills held and what I could potentially use it for on a professional level....
On Saturday, February 9th, the Institute for Educational Advancement (IEA) will host an anniversary celebration fundraiser to mark 20 years serving gifted children. Attendees will be treated to an evening celebrating the heart of gifted children and fostering hope for the future. The fundraising event...
By Mallory Aldrich, Caroline D. Bradley Scholarship Admissions Coordinator While reflecting on my first year at IEA, I realized I have learned so much while working with the amazing students who make up the Caroline D. Bradley Scholars. But the biggest lesson I’ve learned while working...
Here were the Institute for Educational Advancement's top blog posts in 2018: How to Prepare to Apply for the Caroline D. Bradley Scholarship An explanation of what it means to be highly sensitive, as well as a summary of the many pros and some cons of being...
By Anvi Kevany, Administrative Assistant I started my volunteer work as a teenager, when my local group needed participants to join their choir to perform at nursing facilities. In addition, our high school highly encouraged students to volunteer their time, either at school or within the...
Before everyone departs to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday, we’d like to take a few minutes to give thanks to our IEA community! Thank you to all the parents and volunteers who devote their time and resources to support IEA’s programs and services. Whether it’s donating books...
by Zadra Rose Ibañez, Director of Operations In the non-profit world, donors are the lifeblood of an organization. Though many programs charge fees for services, these fees usually do not cover the full expense of an individual’s participation, let alone any free programs and services offered to...
By Alexis Hopper, Program Coordinator This past July, 12-year-old educator and GOVLEARN founder (and now 2018 Caroline D. Bradley Scholar!), Luke Gialanella, presented Academy's fourth student-lead workshop. Votes and Voices: The Electoral College invited students ages 9-14 to participate in an informative and fun introduction to...
The Institute for Educational Advancement (IEA) has announced the 2018 class of award recipients of the Caroline D. Bradley Scholarship, a four-year high school scholarship for gifted learners to attend an optimally matched high school program to help them meet their unique intellectual and personal...
As parents and educators of gifted children know all too well, finding resources to meet the needs of these gifted learners can be difficult. Enter the Gifted Resource Center (GRC), which IEA created as a one-stop source of information for the gifted community. A free...
by Niña Abonal, Senior Program Coordinator Since I started working at IEA three years ago, I’ve witnessed the remarkable evolution of our program offerings and have had the opportunity to spearhead EXPLORE, a summer externship program that was piloted in 2016 for high school students. What started...