Category: Schools & Educational Policy
What to Look for When You Visit Your Child’s School
You can’t be proactive until you know what’s already available or happening. I deal with giftedness, remember, so this post is about that kind of child and family. Where Do You Begin? You’ve already chosen the school. Maybe you followed the advice of others, or maybe you researched the neighborhood to see which school your children […]
Losing Our Minds: Too Many Gifted Children Left Behind
What my newest book is about First, I apologize for not letting you know enough about this book when I set the publication date of October 26, 2024. I was busy with life and growing older, but with my medical issues, multiple surgeries and medications that sapped the energy out of me over the past […]
Does Everyone Doing It Make It Okay?
… and What is School Choice? I’m talking about going to traditional schools. Back in my active speaking, consulting, and test evaluation days, I started many of my speeches by asking my audiences to repeat after me as I stated, “School is not real life!” They usually chuckle and don’t say anything, and I then […]
What Happens When a Smart Youngster Misses the Gifted “Cut-off”?
How much does previous background and “good fit” affect their options and choices by the time they finish high school? Level One people are in the moderately to gifted range of advanced learners. Where any individual fits in their setting or environment depends, to a significant extent, on who else is there. That’s called the […]
Finding the “Right” School for Your Young Child
You already know your child is ahead of agemates. How do you select the best school? I retired from my consultancy in 2018 because I wanted to write follow-up books to my first book, 5 Levels of Gifted: School Issues and Educational Options (2005/2009). Part of my consulting with parents of bright (possibly gifted) young […]
How Do Schools Take Care of Moderately Gifted Students?
The same as they take care of most students. Very little new happens before High School. In this post, you will start to see yourself, and even if you don’t know your IQ, you’ll start to be able to guess more accurately! If a child is clearly advanced, surely the school will recognize the child’s […]
Are Schools Prepared to Meet the Needs of the Highly Gifted?
Level Two children are highly gifted and the most common in gifted programs. Level Two children and their parents also experienced difficulties finding a good school fit. Level Two children and adults are highly gifted. One might think that school personnel would notice the advanced abilities of the students and help to adjust the material […]
Are Schools Prepared for Gifted Children? (Highly to Exceptionally Gifted)
Level Three (Highly to Exceptionally Gifted) children and their parents generally had considerable difficulty finding a good school fit. The school options families have available to them play a role in how good the eventual “fit” is for the Level Three student. Level Three children and adults are Exceptionally gifted. One might think that school […]
Don’t Start Gifted Boys in School Too Early
It Can Be Highly Problematic First, a reminder about reading my blog posts: The Gifted Through the Lifespan Substack is designed to acknowledge just that: giftedness shows up when we are born and until we die. Dementia and repressions (being female or a person of color, for example) and accidents of all sorts can make high intelligence […]
Partly Hormonal and Another Part Ability Grouping—Yay!!!
After 6th grade, things got more interesting for this gifted girl! In a previous post, I talked about my early school years the post called How Author Background Affects What They Write. Here I am the summer before I became an 8th grader. About the time I was starting 7th grade, I was still acting somewhat serious and sane, […]
