Well the new school year is certainly shaping up to start with a bang, isn’t it? Comes a story that could have significant impact not only on the discussion of gifted education in the county, but homeschooling too. This week the Gazette ran a story headlined: Parent advocate says his daughter should be allowed to [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Truth Out: MCPS Hates Grade Skipping
Posted in Gifted, In the News, tagged acceleration, advocacy, Center for the Highly Gifted, education, elementary school, exceptionally gifted, Gifted, Gifted - Montgomery & Fairfax County GROUPS, highly gifted, Homeschooling, Homeschooling - DC area, magnet program, maryland, MCPS, middle school, montgomery county, parent advocacy, School, testing on August 31, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Buon Giorno y’all
Posted in Home Life, tagged europe, florence, italy, kids, rome, teens, travel, vacation, venice on August 28, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Hello everyone! I’m back. Got back from Italy on Monday and was back in the office on Tuesday. There is a lot happening IRL at the moment (and to write about) so thanks in advance for being patient with the pace of posting. We had a great time. Best part? I lost weight! Twice daily [...]
Ciao Bellas
Posted in Uncategorized on August 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just want to let readers know that I’ll be off-line for the next two weeks, on vacation. I may check in once or twice for a quick update–if allowed — but am not making any promises. If school hasn’t started where you are, enjoy!
Googlely-eyed
Posted in Gifted, Interesting, Learning, tagged Gifted, google, googleplex, profoundly gifted, work on August 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It’s tough to leave utopia–doubly so if it involves a red eye flight from San Francisco to Dulles. Early this morning I got back from a two-day workshop hosted by Google at the “Googleplex.” Google headquarters. I was there to learn more about Google products, to network with others in my field and to be [...]
Can Do
Posted in Interesting, Uncategorized, tagged Gifted, maira kalman, profoundly gifted on August 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Maira Kalman, has done it again. The “visual columnist” for the New York Times has produced another one of her delightful, whimsical, informative essays, this time of Benjamin Franklin and other American inventors. Benjamin Franklin was a genius, one of the great inventors of this country. What did he do? Well, e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g. Mixing naive style [...]
Yoohoo, Maryland
Posted in Gifted, In the News, tagged acceleration, dual enrollment, early college, education, exceptionally gifted, Gifted, high school, highly gifted, Homeschooling, humanities, maryland, MCPS, montgomery county, verbally gifted on August 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Check it out. The Post reported on Thursday that Virginia has approved another Governors School: In the works for two years, the governor’s school received the go-ahead from the Virginia Board of Education last week and is expected to open in September 2010 to rising high school juniors in Prince William County, Manassas and Manassas [...]
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