Category: Schools & Educational Policy
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, […]
Supporting and UnderstandingLevels of Giftedness inHomeschooled Children
In this post, I share a tremendous resource, Colleen Kessler, for those of you who want to know more about giftedness…. access to her podcasts at the end of the post. Colleen Kessler is a homeschooling parent, a podcaster, and she
Your child is clearly gifted, if not brilliant: Will the school agree and be happy to see you?
The answer isn’t straightforward because gifted services vary by state and by district and few states have gifted services requirements. During the 1980s, ability grouping and tracking fell out of favor.[i] Americans educated prior to the early 1980’s cannot easily understand how radical a shift this has been.[ii] For more information on the origins of […]
College Debt and Gifted Students: Loan Wolves
How government post-secondary loans affects highly to profoundly gifted students I don’t know about you, but I quit reading — a long time ago — all the “fine print” before I agreed to most ridiculously long and confusing jargony rules from big companies and small. When I first watched this documentary in late 2022, I was shocked and appalled […]
Two of My Favorite Federal Agencies Are on the Chopping Block
What is The Federal Department of Health and Human Services? It is the sprawling agency responsible for administering millions of Americans’ health insurance, approving drugs and medical supplies, regulating food and responding to infectious-disease outbreaks. At this point in my life and career, I am in favor of centralized programs, information, and research that can […]
Elections Have Consequences … Even For Profoundly Gifted Children
My New Approach to Sharing Information About Educational Systems and Outcomes Going forward, I will share my research, my viewpoints, my previous writing and speaking topics, and I will juxtapose the information — as much as possible — with the history and laws of different educational policies and systems. I will also demonstrate how to […]
Supporting and Understanding Levels of Giftedness in Homeschooled Children
In this post, I share a tremendous resource, Colleen Kessler, for those of you who want to know more about giftedness. I’ve placed the link for her access to her podcasts at the end of the post. Colleen Kessler is a homeschooling parent, a podcaster, and she kindly invited me to be part of one of her podcasts. […]
What is “Good Fit” and Why Does It Matter?
“Good fit” in the context of school and social life means that people feel as though they belong. First, “good fit” in the context of school and social life means that the children feel as though they belong, that they are not outliers, or lonely, or weird compared to the others. Children who grow up feeling […]
