A Very Strange Summer Reading List
By Clint Von Gundy As the school year comes to a close, the viscerally upsetting reality has begun to set in that soon, parents will have some very bored children on their hands. Bored children complain. A lot. Sure, it’s all cook-outs, and water gun fights, and birdwatching, and trips to Hurricane Harbor (which is…
From School-Driven Support to Self-Advocacy
By Jaret Hodges, Ph.D. Many students and their parents become accustomed to the structured supportprovided by public school districts for learning needs. Schools coordinate meetings with parents, develop formal education plans, and proactively support students through appropriate accommodations. Coming to a university, many parents expect similar levels of structural support – a continuation of services,…
Consider the Mudskipper: On Being a Fish That Can Climb Trees
By Clint Von Gundy In his posthumously published novel The Garden of Eden, Ernest Hemingway wrote, “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” The notion that gifted people are more emotionally fragile, more socially maladjusted, more prone to mental illness, or just generally more miserable than their non-gifted peers–what’s also known as…
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By Clint Von Gundy As the school year comes to a close, the viscerally upsetting reality has begun to set in that soon, parents will have some very bored children on their hands. Bored children complain. A lot. Sure, it’s all cook-outs, and water gun fights, and birdwatching, and trips to Hurricane Harbor (which is…
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By Jaret Hodges, Ph.D. Many students and their parents become accustomed to the structured supportprovided by public school districts for learning needs. Schools coordinate meetings with parents, develop formal education plans, and proactively support students through appropriate accommodations. Coming to a university, many parents expect similar levels of structural support – a continuation of services,…
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By Clint Von Gundy In his posthumously published novel The Garden of Eden, Ernest Hemingway wrote, “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” The notion that gifted people are more emotionally fragile, more socially maladjusted, more prone to mental illness, or just generally more miserable than their non-gifted peers–what’s also known as…
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by Jaret Hodges, Ph.D. Identifying students as twice exceptional is hard work. A big reason why this is the case is due to the fact that this group of students constitutes a nonlinearly separable one. In other words, percentages, thresholds, and checklists don’t cut it. These students would need a set of tests nuanced and…
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by Jaret Hodges, Ph.D. Academics have many terms with which to describe why identifying students as twice exceptional is difficult: non-linear decision surfaces; non-convex class separation, and (one of my favorites) non-linear discriminant structures. All these are fancy ways of saying that the traits of twice-exceptional students overlap with the traits of gifted students and…
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Getting Beyond “Nothing” and “Fine” Around the Dinner Table with Depth and Complexity By Clint Von Gundy Merry Back to School to all who celebrate! After a few years away, wandering in the desert of corporate consulting, I made the decision to return to the public school classroom. I will, for the first time, be…
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By Selcuk Acar, University of North Texas Research Title: Great expectations: The parental pursuit of optimal gifted programming. Researchers: Celeste D. C. Sodergren, Todd Kettler, & Jessica McKamie. Parents of gifted children often notice their kids’ exceptional talents early on. Whether it’s a knack for math, an interest in reading above their grade level, or…
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Advocacy for public education and GT education has become more important than ever. Multiple bills have been filed that could impact Texas GT students, and as a parent or educator of GT students, your voice is needed this spring. Please read on for news and easy action steps every GT parent can take right now…
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