By Theresa Newsom | “We need to make learning something interesting by connecting it to the student. The best thing we can do is excite their passion for learning.”

In preparation for the coming school year and the probability that distance learning will continue to be a part of the school experience, the Gifted Development Center’s virtual education leaders group continues to meet.  Members have pooled their collective wisdom to provide support for families in the coming year.

By Kathi Kearney | “For the past 100 years, when educators and researchers have really looked, they have found gifted children of color. It is not the IQ tests themselves that are at fault, but the refusal to look in all racial and ethnic groups for gifted children. These children are there. They are everywhere.”

An article by Dr. Linda Kreger Silverman | From its inception, the person-centered study of giftedness has been built on the mission of protecting human rights. While some still profess that the purpose of gifted education is to foster eminence, there is a more profound need for identifying and supporting the gifted.

Your journal is a record of your experiences since the day the world shut down. The day that time stopped. What will future historians learn about how you were affected by the COVID-19?

In preparation for the coming school year and the probability that distance learning will continue to be a part of the school experience, the Gifted Development Center’s virtual education leaders group continues to meet.  Members have pooled their collective wisdom to provide support for families in the coming year.