Category: Education
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Student Gift-Making Menus for December
Help students to create gifts with care during this season of giving.
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Entrepreneurship as a Tool for Gifted Students
Challenging high-ability students in an entrepreneurial context increases gifted students’ potential to impact their communities positively.
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Tailored Holiday Gift Ideas to Inspire Gifted Kids
As the holiday season approaches, many of us find ourselves searching for gifts that do more than provide momentary excitement. We aim to choose presents that engage, entertain, and educate—gifts that will captivate their attention well beyond December and encourage them to think outside the box. But what’s the cost…
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Empowering Administrators for Gifted Education Success
“ …Leaders serve as a keystone in the provision of gifted education services in schools and districts” (pp. 26-27). Knowledge is power, and in this case knowledge leads to powerful programs for students. Research published in the Journal of Organizational and Educational Leadership gathers perspectives from administrators to investigate gaps…
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Creative Is As Creative Does
Creative thinking is valued as a gifted characteristic – can it be taught?
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No Exit: Once Gifted, Always Gifted?
Why Gifted & Talented Research Doesn’t Talk Much about Exit Policies Although research does not explicitly address removing students from gifted programs, inference and implications point to the following: if a program has stated goals, with identification processes that align with those goals, then the indicators that allowed for a…
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Key Flagstones Towards a Twice-Exceptional District Pathway (Part 3 in a 2e series)
Three key factors to support twice-exceptional students including acceptance and teamwork.
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Why? Strengths-based Approaches for Twice-Exceptional Students (Part 2 in a 2e Series)
The misconception that high ability obviates or excludes disability leads to a limitation of the 2e student’s ability to express and reach their fullest potential.
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Keys to Unlock Twice-Exceptional Students’ Abilities with Interest-Driven Projects (Part 1 in a 2e Series)
Where can we begin as gifted specialists and parents to create a context for 2e students to thrive inside and outside of school academically, emotionally, and socially?
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Gifted Learning Outside the Comfort Zone
HIghly able students can become too comfortable because of their academic abilities. Providing challenging new material or topics can open up new levels of learning for gifted students.
Gifted Weekly 