Whew! Got through my homeschool review with the county yesterday. (For those who are curious, here are the Maryland Homeschooling regs.) It was my second since starting homeschooling a year ago. I felt both confident and nervous, so to give myself and extra mental boost I put on my work clothes and my high-heeled boots. [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Homeschool Review: What’s Just Right
Posted in Homeschooling, tagged Homeschooling, Homeschooling - DC area, maryland, MCPS, montgomery county, oversight, regulation, review, Washington DC on January 12, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Centering in on the Centers – Part Two
Posted in Gifted, History, School, tagged Center for the Highly Gifted, Center program, education, Gifted, highly gifted, magnet program, MCPS, School on January 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
[Link to Centering in on the Centers - Part One] Aside from the challenging situation inside of C.’s classroom, there were also larger issues with the school as a whole, not the least of which was the fact that the school community didn’t want the Center program housed in its school. I had no clue [...]
Lovely Weather We’re Having: Global Warming and the Highly Gifted Child
Posted in Gifted, Home Life, tagged CCAN, climate change, global warming, highly gifted, overexcitabilities, weather on January 8, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Like the warm weather we’ve had the past two days? Lots of people–including my 11 year old M.– think it’s just dandy or don’t give it a second thought. “Yay! No jackets!” But not C. For the past few years I’ve dreaded these unseasonably warm days. These are the days that my highly perceptive, highly [...]
Magnet Testing Mayhem
Posted in School, tagged magnet program, MCPS, testing on January 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Geez Louise! Just back from dropping both girls off for their magnet testing: C. at nearby Blair and M. at Takoma. Knowing what a zoo this can be, (about 1,000 kids at each site) we left the house early, dropped my husband and C. off at the nearby Starbucks so that they could walk across [...]
Weast on Working the System
Posted in School, tagged advocacy, Baldridge, education, Gifted, Jerry Weast, MCPS, montgomery county, NCLB, parent involvement, School on January 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
MCPS Superintendent Jerry D. Weast was featured in a December 26 opinion piece in Education Week online. You can read it here (it’s by free subscription). I’ll just quote the opening: Jerry D. Weast, the schools superintendent in Montgomery County, Md., was recently asked what he was doing to improve low-performing schools. His answer should [...]
New Book on “Nerds”
Posted in Gifted, In the News, tagged boy, CTY, exceptionally gifted, geek, Gifted, girl, highly gifted, nerd, Randy Pausch video, stereotype, verbally gifted, White and Nerdy video on January 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Was surfing around the technology section of the Post this morning, when I spotted this article “Ridicule That’s Getting On Our Nerds,” a book review of NERDS: Who They Are and Why We Need More of Them by David Anderegg. Anderegg is a professor of psychology at Bennington College in Vermont and a practicing psychotherapist. [...]
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