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TURN ON THE POWER provides the information and tools you need to blaze an individualized educational trail best suited to your family. Details regarding enrichment, homeschooling, and early college provide the foundation upon which informed decisions can be made. Empirical evidence is provided to dispel misconceptions regarding homeschooling, and to support the authors' shared position that traditional schooling is not the most desirable path for all students. The needs of special populations are thoroughly addressed. The authors share inspiring personal stories of setting and achieving educational goals on their own terms.

Recent groundbreaking research examining the minds of the most highly intelligent, creative, and intense brains translated by a neuroscientist through interviews, storytelling, and literary science. Insight Into a Bright Mind explores new directions for the neurodiverse experiences of humans. You will learn how your brain is as unique as your fingerprint, and how your experience is elevated because you're simply "hard-wired" differently.

Packed with practical tips, real life scenarios, current research and best practices, SERVING THE NEEDS OF YOUR SMART KIDS is a unique guidebook for school leaders, teachers, parents, and school staff who strive to create an environment that serves the unique characteristics of the advanced learner. Students will thrive as supporters learn and implement cutting edge strategies that meet their unique social, emotional and academic needs with budget-sensitive and student-centred actions. Every chapter provides opportunities for collaboration with teachers, coordinators, school leaders, and parents. Get started today in creating positive learning environments for YOUR Smart Kids!

In this updated 3rd edition of Being Smart the authors provide current views on gifted education and on nurturing children's and adolescents' abilities. They discuss equity and diversity, creativity, assessments, homeschooling, neural plasticity, social-emotional issues, and more. Drs. Matthews and Foster address questions and concerns, and share resources. This book is for parents, grandparents, and teachers who want to foster high-level development and meaningful learning opportunities.  BEING SMART ABOUT GIFTED LEARNING, the third edition of this book, emerges out of our decades of personal and professional experiences with giftedness, and also from a shared sense of the joys, challenges, and uniqueness of every child. In this book, we discuss ways to nurture children's learning and well-being across many dimensions of their lives.

How many times have we implored the children in our lives to calm down? What do we really mean by this? And how often does it really work? Now take a moment to reflect on how you feel when you're told to calm down. Chances are, your associations aren't terribly positive. So, let's flip the script.WHEN I AM CALM is designed to help deliver that message more effectively and to give kids the tools they need to get there. It stems from the premise that understanding what being calm actually feels like, sounds like, and looks like is a necessary first step. WHEN I AM CALM describes the physiological cues that let a child know they are starting to get upset, and empowers them to discover what tools they can use to return to calm.Big feelings are an important part of life, and learning how to manage those big feelings is hard work. In addition, many of us are simply wired to experience big feelings more often and more intensely, especially if the environment we are in isn't a great match for our needs. As a result, some kids will need more teaching, more support and more practice to develop effective emotional self-regulation (another way of saying managing those big feelings).Whether at school or at home, WHEN I AM CALM is designed to help. It combines a playful read-aloud with activities and checklists designed to reinforce skills.

Written for parents and teachers, BOOSTING YOUR CHILD'S NATURAL CREATIVITY is a guide to fostering creativity and sustaining the creative spirit in children both at home and at school. Creativity is both a capacity we are born with and a skill that we can further develop. In his fully revised and updated edition, the authors describe various theories of creativity, personality traits, programs, processes, and products that foster creativity. Filled with examples and practical suggestions, this exciting book describes parenting for creativity, teaching organizational skills, and ways to preserve and enhance one's own creativity.

We know that video games keep people engaged for hours on end, and research indicates that this is due, in good part, to player agency. That is, the ability for the person playing the game to make significant choices that have consequences to the outcome of the game. How can this idea be replicated in the classroom?While Agency feels like a new buzzword in education, it has been around since the 5th Century, BCE. What does it really mean? Why does it matter? How has it changed (and stayed the same) throughout all these centuries? Why is it important to nurture it, and how can we do that while still developing the skills necessary to achieve on high stakes tests? And to what extent is this idea more important for gifted students?This book is for any educator or parent who is hoping to understand the concept of agency as well as explore strategies to inspire and invigorate their most complex learners to become the best version of themselves.

In THE GIFTED PARENTING JOURNEY, clinical psychologist and parent Dr. Gail Post addresses the needs and emotional life of parents of gifted children. Gifted children can be overwhelming; parents must navigate a maze of heightened intensity, asynchronous development, and astonishing intellectual abilities. These challenges and the emotions they evoke are not always easy to discuss with friends or professionals unfamiliar with giftedness. Parents of gifted children often struggle in relative silence, reluctant to voice their concerns.Most books on raising gifted children focus on the child, paying little attention to the parent's unique experience. This book will guide parents along their gifted parenting journey, exploring what they might worry about and feel - the dread, envy, and regret. How they can weather and even thrive despite roadblocks to their child's education, criticism from others based on stereotypes, and their own self-doubts. Understanding their thoughts and feelings - and distinguishing these emotions from what their child needs - is key to making informed parenting decisions.THE GIFTED PARENTING JOURNEY will recommend how to find the guidance and support parents need, with focus on self-awareness. Throughout this book, parents will be invited to discover more about their deeper emotions and motivations, what influences their attitudes and expectations, and how certain reactions are elicited in response to the gifted experience. Readers will be prompted to explore questions that should increase self-awareness, and are offered both practical tools for managing their emotions and guidelines for improving their parenting skills.Dr. Post provides the latest research, clinical insight based on decades of experience as a psychologist, and vignettes. Findings from a recent online survey of 428 parents of gifted children, initiated for the purpose of this book, explore what other parents want readers to know. While this book is specifically geared toward parents of the gifted, it also offers guidance for anyone interested in understanding gifted children and their families: grandparents, extended family, caregivers, teachers, and other professionals. The guidance, support, and increased self-awareness acquired through this book should enhance parents' well-being and confidence along their gifted parenting journey.

In this new edition, co-authors Edward R. Amend Psy.D., Emily Kircher-Morris, LPC, and Janet Gore, M.Ed. reinforce the reliable approaches originally explored in the first edition, while drawing extensively on the wealth of research and information developed over the last 15 years in the areas of neuroscience, psychology, and education. Our children are navigating a world that in many crucial ways is quite different from the one that existed in 2007. The new PARENT'S GUIDE TO GIFTED CHILDREN includes issues of social media, screen time, LGBTQ, and bullying. For gifted children however, many of the needs remain the same - advocacy, educational planning, access to true peers, and more. Rich in information and strategies, this edition will be referred to time and time again whether you are entirely new to gifted, completing your “active” parenting days, or supporting a gifted grandchild, student, or client.

Media messages are prevalent and powerful, and increased media exposure means children must learn to be purposeful, healthy consumers and creators of media. This book benefits parents and families with an introduction to identity development and media's effects on it combined with topics for meaningful conversation and activities to reinforce purposeful use of media. Grounded in research and with lessons focused on different aspects of media, CREATING AND CONSUMING MEDIA MESSAGES WITH PURPOSE provides families with a guide for developing and supporting lifelong skills around active media consumption and creation.

IGNITE YOUR IDEAS is for children aged ten and up. However, parents, teachers, and others will also discover important information and abundant strategies to fortify their own creativity, and to inspire the young people in their lives. With its convenient format and relatable content, readers will soon discover why creativity matters, how it develops, how to nurture it, how family members can support one another, what to do if creativity is a struggle, and what's needed most in order for creativity to ignite from within the environment and from within the recesses of one's mind. The various chapters can be read consecutively or not, but the book culminates with detailed descriptions of 100 sure-fire ways to spark creativity across many different areas of interest (alongside tips for organizing and optimizing these ways). Within the book, Dr. Foster also provides current resources, thought-provoking quotes, a mini-glossary, surprising avenues of discovery, reassurances, and other helpful information that will entice kids to extend their curiosity and ability levels; explore the wonders of the world; and become happily creative at home, school, and elsewhere. This book is not another craft book for children. It is bursting with ideas designed to fuel possibilities - glimmers, flashes, intentions, inventions, and collaborations - through the arts, technology, science, and other domains. Ignite Your Ideas is about finding and seizing diverse opportunities for learning, fulfilment, and creative expression, and it includes countless suggestions for initiating, participating in, sharing, and building upon activities. In the same way that the author's award-winning Bust Your BUTS shines a bright light on procrastination, and energizes kids (and adults), Ignite Your Ideas enlightens readers, and motivates them, too. The pages are ablaze with understandings and strategies that generate exciting, accessible choices, and joyful creative experiences for kids and their families. This book is the perfect match to help ignite meaningful and imaginative ideas!