You’ve read the stories about the craziness of the Kindergarten admission process in New York City, but here are faces and places to make it come alive. The documentary “Getting In…Kindergarten” follows three families as they apply: a white single mom who works as a librarian, an African-American couple (dad went to a top school [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Documentary: Getting In…Kindergarten
Posted in Gifted, School, tagged applications, Gifted, IQ, kindergarten, new york city, parenting, parents, testing on November 27, 2009 | 9 Comments »
National Day Of Listening: How Being a Nerd Girl Paid Off
Posted in Gifted, Home Life, tagged exceptionally gifted, genealogy, Gifted, History, holiday, humanities, profoundly gifted, verbally gifted on November 27, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The initial rush from seeing relatives who you haven’t seen in awhile has worn off. You’ve stuffed yourself with turkey. The thought of hitting the malls gives you a rash. Maybe the weather is bad and you’re cooped up in the house. You’ve snuck out to check the Internet because you’re reading this (busted!). And [...]
File Under “What Have We Come To?”
Posted in In the News, School, tagged garden, IQ, kindergarten, magnet program, parenting, school garden, standardized testing on November 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »
It was on the list of most emailed articles for the New York Times this morning: Tips for the Admissions Test … to Kindergarten. Shudder. Test preparation has long been a big business catering to students taking SATs and admissions exams for law, medical and other graduate schools. But the new clientele is quite a [...]
GT Lives!
Posted in Gifted, School, tagged Center for the Highly Gifted, education, elementary school, Gifted, magnet program, MCPS, middle school, montgomery county, PTA, red zone on November 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have to say, I’d been having my doubts whether anyone in Montgomery County gave a fig about GT education, but a modicum of my faith was restored on Wednesday, when I was invited to participate on Gifted Centers/Magnet School Roundtable at the girls’ former elementary school. Just to back up… At the end of [...]
Equity and Excellence: Another AEI Meeting
Posted in Gifted, School on November 15, 2009 | 5 Comments »
On Thursday evening I lost two hours of my life that I will never get back. What did do? Why, I attended yet another meeting of the Accelerated and Enriched Instruction (not “GT”) Advisory Committee. Yes, they have resumed (I missed the first one of the year.) Now I shouldn’t pick on AEI. Really. But [...]
Richard St. John’s 8 secrets of success
Posted in Interesting, Learning on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I love TED.com and haven’t posted any talks from them in awhile. Here’s one that I liked.
Why You Should Fill Out that Application for the Highly Gifted Center Program
Posted in Gifted, School, tagged acceleration, Center for the Highly Gifted, curriculum, differentiation, education, elementary school, Gifted, highly gifted, maryland, MCPS, montgomery county, NCLB, profoundly gifted, School on November 5, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Last week I thought I had really put my foot in it with a friend. She has an extremely bright and creative 3rd grader and I realized that the deadline (Monday, November 9) for the Centers for the Highly Gifted was fast approaching . So I gave her a call and in the course of [...]
What is it about Tintin?
Posted in Gifted, Home Life, tagged books, Gifted, tintin, verbally gifted on November 4, 2009 | 17 Comments »
Is it me, or is there something about gifted kids and Tintin? We were out of town over the weekend, visiting relatives and friends in Boston, and curiously, a Tintin theme emerged. Who (or what) is Tintin? Here’s the beginning of the Wikipedia entry, for those who might not be familiar with him (Tintin has [...]
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