Coach Courtney Edman will share neuroscience-based ways to communicate with your child that will minimize resistance, avoidance, oppositional and defiant behaviors while building a relationship built on trust, honesty, connection, collaboration and empowerment.
This is an informal discussion with Dr. Gilman Whiting, a national leader in gifted education of students of color and low SES who grew up in Boston and went to their public schools. He discusses the realities of gifted educaiton for black, brown, and poor students from a personal and professional lens and suggest a Scholarly Disposition for educators and students alike.
This presentation explains emotional regulation in children and how parents and educators can help gifted children learn what they need for their social and emotional well-being.
Find out what differentiation and individualization really are and how they really do work, and really help gifted and other students. This is useful information for teachers, homeschoolers, and parents when advocating for their highly able children.
What is it really like to raise a twice-exceptional child? They may be on both ends of the normal curve but they are caught in the middle. Find out from these experienced moms what works, what doesn't, and how each child's situation is unique.
Overexcitabilities are often mentioned in discussions about the social and emotional needs of the gifted. They are often listed as characteristics but they are often not explained well or how to utilize them. This presentation and its accompanying two discussion group sessions attempt to do just that.
Harvard Alumni for Education, Boston hosts this panel on Gifted and Special Education featuring MAGE President Michelle Barmazel
Gifted Education starts at: 21:25
Michelle Barmazel starts at: 33:05
DIY Schooling - Homeschooling may not be what you think it is! Presentation given by leaders from GHF, an organization devoted to supporting families pursuing non-traditional means of educating their children.
Just as gifted/twice exceptional students develop differently in their academics, the same is true of their social emotional development. Learn about the social emotional side of giftedness in this presentation from the MAGE 2021 Conference.
Did you know that gifted/twice exceptional children approach friendship differently than their same age peers? Learn about why this is and how to support it in this presentation by Karen Blumstein.
Emotional Intensity, the reasons behind it and how to support it as presented by Dr. Matt Zakresky.
