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How A Strength-Based School Year Will Change Your Child’s Life!
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Goodbye to Social Skills Classes. Hello to Dungeons & Dragons!
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Creating Learning Plans That Work! The 3 KEY Ingredients
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Alternative Education Paths: Removing Barriers to Learning
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The Most Overlooked Support for 2e Students: Acceleration
Whether you're a parent, educator, or simply passionate about supporting neurodivergent learners, this blog is your go-to resource for all things related to strength-based education and fostering a community of belonging.
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“I Don’t Know My Passion” Unlocking Your Child’s Passion With Talent
Is your child struggling to find their passion or unsure about what they want to do in the future? You’re not alone. Many parents face the challenge of helping their children discover what truly excites them. What if the key to unlocking their potential lies not in directly searching for passion, but in nurturing their inherent talents first?
Discovering one’s passion often feels like a monumental task, especially for twice-exceptional children. They might have unique asynchronies that make finding a single interest overwhelming. However, understanding that talent often comes before passion can change everything
Illuminating Interview- Dr. Joseph Renzulli Pt 2
“‘they find out what I can’t do, don’t want to do, and don’t like to do, and they spend the rest of the year beating me to death with it’” - former twice-exceptional student of Dr. Joseph Renzulli.
This was a moment in which Dr. Renzulli made a decision that would define his career: he committed his life’s work to find out what students:
✅ can do
✅ want to do
✅ like to do
and build authentic, interest-based learning experiences around the students, rather than the other way around.
Illuminating Interviews- Dr. Joseph Renzulli
After the launch of Sputnik in 1957, a young Dr. Renzulli, a then middle school science teacher, was put in charge of the gifted science program at his school. He was given students with 130+ IQs. The plot thickened when he snuck some quirky students in who he knew were just as bright, but were not on that list.
This led Dr. Renzulli to a major aha moment!
He realized that there were these 3 Key Factors that contributed to the students who were not on the original list of highly gifted students to do as well, if not better, than the students with the 130+ IQs!
Illuminating Interviews- Coleman Sokol
Do you grant your child enough room to make mistakes?
This is an important question posed by my most recent guest on the Illuminating Interviews series, Coleman Sokol.
Coleman is a twice-exceptional senior in college who once wondered if he would make it through high school. He's now preparing to graduate from college with a PERFECT 4.0 GPA! Talk about a success story!
Illuminating Interviews- Elinor Shapiro
In this Illuminating Interview, Elinor consoles parents who might be worried about their child’s ability to venture out and succeed beyond school by offering some unconventional wisdom.
Check out this short clip of the hour-long interview in which Elinor paints a vivid picture for us of how she’s found success because of her asynchronies.
YSA Facebook Live 8/11/21
Missed last week's Live? Check out the recording here. We discussed cultivating environments to foster gifted behaviors. You’re not ogng to want to miss this one!
Sculpting David
For many, Michaelangelo's ICONIC David statue is the embodiment of art. Stylistic perfection! What many people don't know is that originally, Michelangelo wasn’t even meant to sculpt the David. In fact, he wasn’t even the second choice…
Originally, an artist by the name of Agostino di Duccio was commissioned to sculpt the marble. Shortly after signing up, he quit…
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