I was tested for gifted in the first grade and placed in a pull-out program, where the teacher came (maybe once per week, don’t remember) to work with me and another student. According to my parents, shortly after, school officials canceled the program. From that point on, I participated in a general classroom until being placed in honors classes in middle school. I found high school boring and considered my teachers, for the most part, ineffective, boring, and preoccupied with their own...

“Giftedness is a greater awareness, a greater sensitivity, a greater ability to understand and transform perceptions into intellectual and emotional experiences”

                                                             Annemarie Roeper, 1982.

The above quote is perhaps my favorite definition of what it means to be “gifted.”  There are countless...

At the IB Heads World Conference in The Hague, Peter Senge discussed with me the "Education Renaissance," sharing both successful learning strategies and the setbacks to be considered when creating innovative...