TIDBIT # 33-Understanding and Supporting Your Child’s Behavior
Understanding and Supporting Your Child’s Behavior: Shifting from “Bad” to Empathy When your child exhibits challenging behavior, it’s important to shift your mindset from labeling it as “bad” to recognizing it as a sign of struggle. By approaching the situation with empathy and understanding, you can provide the support and assistance your child needs, rather […]
Tidbit # 20- The Benefits of a Scholars Academy Education
Are you ready to maximize your scholar’s potential and open the door to a world of possibilities? Are you wondering what sets us apart at Scholars Academy for the Gifted? This remarkable educational opportunity provides students the space and resources to fully explore their interests, hone their skills, and make meaningful connections with others. At […]
Tidbit # 19-The Magic of a Strengths-Based Classroom
A magical classroom with curious minds, Where the air is filled with whispered rhymes. Childish laughter, ideas that grow, Creative spirit brought to the show. Colors of imagination that come alive on paper, Fantasy worlds brought ever closer. Innocent eyes look around in awe, As joyous thoughts take high flight from every corner. A […]
Tidbit # 18-Keeping up with the Curveballs of Gifted Scholars
Everyone says that there are no two days that are the same as a teacher. That is the truth. You never know what can happen when teaching tiny humans. However, for the most part, teachers generally like to have some sort of plan. To know when they are doing what, and the logistics of the […]
Tidbit # 17-Following Their Lead
What’s Next? In working with gifted learners, I have learned that one of the best things that we can do to support them is to follow their lead. If you are listening to them and following their lead, you will never be led astray. How does this look in the classroom? Obviously, we can not […]
Tidbit # 10-Interruptions and Dashed Hopes
I don’t want to write another post about Covid — living through covid, the disappointments thanks to Covid, the educational and psychological fallout in the wake of Covid; there is more than ample written material out there to speak to our collective Covid traumas, only a few of which we’re even starting to name and […]
Tidbit # 6-Tuning in to acknowledge the vagaries of minds
When deep thinking and an impatient urgency to fully understand a concept and all of its applications are a student’s modus operandi, dialing back to master “the basics” and being tasked with biting off small bits until being permitted to delve wider and deeper can not only be frustrating; it can be downright demotivating! What’s […]
Tidbit # 3
As my kids have gotten older, more mouthy and self-assured in their positions, I have vacillated between being pleased not to have sugar-coated or avoided difficult topics or unpleasant realities, including the fantastic set of hypocrisies that are much of life, and very uncertain about whether I took advantage of their unusual capacity to deeply […]
TIDBIT # 12- AUTONOMY IN THE CLASSROOM
Kids go through various stages of increasing autonomy as they age. However, numerous studies have found that the stage that begins around 6th grade and continues through the teen years is unique. Unfortunately, this is what gives ‘the rebellious teenager’ an infamous bad rep. Home and street behavior are fertile ground for the flexing of […]
Tidbit # 11-Where are we going?
I’ve been turning around a few ideas these past months about college prep, test prep, high school classes, middle school requirements — “necessary” skills and knowledge and the energetic push to guide our children as best we can (while we can) to be successful, happy, productive individuals. Or at least, happy … or at least, […]