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Take action! California Department of Education is forming regional work groups to redesign the IEP Template. Complete this survey to advocate for 2E learners i...n CA. Students need Strengths Based IEPs and Strength Based Goals Complete by Wednesday 4/14 http://bit.ly/2eCAGSurvey #gifted #2e #cag #access See more

Excerpt from the book: "While our own three EPG children were growing up, a public school superintendent told me, We can’t help kids like yours; an admissions... officer at an elite private school told me, We don’t admit grade-skipped kids like yours because they hurt the social lives of the rest of the students; and a private school director told me, Instead of teaching your kids calculus next year, we’ll have them spread bedsheets over our sledding hill with other students in our geometry class. Imagine a child with exceptional in-born athletic ability operating without a knowledgeable sports coach, using faulty equipment on a substandard playing field and deprived of access to true athletic-peers by design. Imagine an extraordinarily talented musician asked to play music several levels below their playing ability, expressly to protect the self-esteem of those less musically endowed? Such response to extraordinary gifts applied in other more familiar arenas of distinction athletics and music, to name but two seems absurd. Instead, we must think outside the educational box --including standard gifted education paradigms for more moderately gifted children --, accept very unfamiliar ways of learning and be ready to be stunned, silenced and/or delighted by the knowledge and insight that even a very young EPG brings to the table. P Susan Jackson Author "Excuse Me, Where do I park my Whale? The Extraordinary Journey of the exceptionally and Profoundly Gifted." A book-in-the-making 2021 release

Oh, it’s fiddle-de-dum and fiddle-de-dee, The dancing bear ran away with me; For the organ-grinder he came to town With a jolly old bear in a coat of brown. ... Honoring Leave Your Sleep poet, Albert Bigelow Paine who died #OTD in 1937. "The Dancing Bear," a poem about adventure and disillusionment, was published in his first book of poetry, Rhymes by Two Friends (1893), co-written with William Allan White. PreK-8th Grade Curriculum at: www.leaveyoursleepforeducation.com https://youtu.be/JrROiAzZyH8

This is so important! Please help support and maintain gifted and talented services in mathematics is California!

Please see our latest news from GSC! * Supporting your child's mental health * Do you have a budding physicist in your home? * Is you child in need of academic acceleration?... * Leave Your Sleep for Education for National Poetry Month * Parent groups, and more... Link https://giftedsupportcenter.com//GSC.Newsletter.Mar_.2021-

Calling all early bird educators!Register by midnight on 03-16 at: http://bit.ly/CAGEvents #gifted #giftedandtalented #giftededucation #gifteded #cagcon #giftedminds #cag

Honoring Leave Your Sleep poet Charles Causley who died #OTD in 2003. Join us at #nagc20! We will be featuring Charles Caulsey's "Nursery Rhyme of Innocence an...d Experience" presenting how to use an arts integrated curriculum to identify potential. You can find us in the 'On Demand' presentation type, under the 'Arts' strand. Learn more about the conference at https://www.eventscribe.com/2020/NAGC/' Download Leave Your Sleep curriculum in advance at https://leaveyoursleepforeducation.com/

Happy Birthday, Natalie Merchant!

"Oh I'm in love with the janitor's boy, And the janitor's boy loves me; He's going to hunt for a desert isle In our geography."... Honoring Nathalia Crane who died #OTD in 1998. PreK-8th Grade LYS Curriculum: http://leaveyoursleepforeducation.com #GiftedEd #ArtsEd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNE_1hya66c

GSC's Fall Newsletter - * Bay Area private school testing * Introducing REEL, a new Bay Area organization supporting 2e children and families * Support during COVID-19 * Leave Your Sleep for Education... * Upcoming events, and more... Newsletter link https://bit.ly/34n1tHZ

Navigating the Road Ahead: Parenting Those Most Gifted. 1. What are the toughest things parents of exceptionally and profoundly gifted offspring contend with? ...An inordinate sense of (persistent) responsibility, loneliness and/or feeling isolated and inadequate, and/or inconsistent resources in educational, talent-based, social, and mental health spaces. Pervasive lack of understanding. Self-doubt, a feeling of navigating without a compass. 2. What are their strongest assets? Profound love for their children. Persistence. Deepest curiosity about the conditions of life. Abiding belief in their children. Willingness to learn and grow. Seeking and contributing to meaningful communities. Self-care. Radical courage. From the Prologue in : Excuse me, Where do I Park my Whale ? The Extraordinary Journey of the Exceptionally and Profoundly Gifted. Author: P. Susan Jackson. (A book-very-much-in-the-making). To be released soon.

The world needs people who think differently. The world needs Autistic people. Image description: Rectangular prism presenting as an optical illusion. Text re...ads: ‘Contrary to most stereotypes, orthogonal thinking making unusual connections to come to genuinely new insights is one of the hallmark characteristics of the Autistic brain. Copyright Reframing Autism, 2020.’ See more

Honoring Jack Prelutsky who was born #OTD in 1940. Bleezer’s Ice Cream is a favorite Leave Your Sleep lesson for children of all ages! This unit was created by ...Dr. AnabelJensen President of Six Seconds. The lessons focus on enhancing emotional literacy through poetry and music and introduce students to social-emotional #SEL competencies. Children create flavors and build cones describing their feelings; pages 65-74 in the curriculum book. Collage pictures are from working with children in the Bay Area and San Diego, CA, and in Vancouver BC Canada. Fun video of Natalie performing Bleezer’s IceCream, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp1XGP8c0b8 Free Leave Your Sleep Curriculum at www.leaveyoursleepforeducation.com #ArtsEd #GiftedEd #nataliemerchant #sandrakaplan #anabeljensen #Poetry #Music #Gifted #interdisciplinarycurriculum

She was always looking for better models or better words to respond to the questions. read Paula Prober and your other favorite voices in the GHF Forum’s Writers’ Showcase: www.forum.ghflearners.org

Truth. And if you want to hang out with a thousand or so other black-hole-brains, filling themselves and each other, get to the GHF Forum! www.ghflearners.org/choices

maggie and milly and molly and may Honoring #LYS poet E.E.Cummings who died #OTD in 1962. Photos: ... * Painting by artist, Carl Niederer * E.E. Cummings * #LYSFE Bay Area development team, Allen, Ann, Nicole, Susan, Gretchen, Anabel, and Brooke A little #LYSFE trivia fun Father of #LYSFE team member Nicole Niederer, Carl Niederer, was an artist, author, and industrial engineer in New York and San Francisco. A well-respected artist, Carl showed watercolors at H.P. Corwith Ltd. Gallery on Union Street in San Francisco, and at the Triad Gallery in Seal Rock, Oregon. His rare combination of watercolor and early computer interest led to his appointment of professor and Head of the Art Department at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. Carl traveled the world and painted images of Australia, New York, San Francisco, Japan, Fiji, and Macao. His subjects in watercolor range from sand dunes and beaches to paintings of mothers and their children playing on the beaches, to still-lifes of pears when they are still hanging from the tree, before dropping to the ground to become nourishment for bees. During his Professorship and later retirement, he continued to actively develop his ideas in economics, mathematics, geometry, design, and architecture, to create art in many different media from ceramics to textiles to landforms, and to write. Carl’s painting is our own version of E.E. Cummings poem, maggie and milly and molly and may. The painting is of his granddaughter, Jackie (Nicole’s daughter) playing with her friends at Cleawox Lake, which is located along the Pacific Ocean coast of Oregon. #ArtsEd #GiftedEd #NatalieMerchant #SandraKaplan #LeaveYourSleep #LeaveYourSleepForEducation

In honor of #CharlesCausley's birthday, a little #LYSFE trivia fun: * Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience was the first poem Ann read from the #LYS book. ...It inspired her to bring LYS to classrooms. * Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience was the first poem that #DrSandraKaplan developed curriculum for, * Dr. Kaplan's very first hand-written curriculum design outlining structure and process for the curriculum * The final 87 page curriculum book that was written over 2 years by 7 educators, a large development team, and with the overall curriculum structure designed by Dr. Sandra Kaplan and Dr. Jessica Manzone. It certainly was a labor of love for all involved! #GiftedEd #ArtsEd #Poetry #Music #2e #Interdisciplinary #CurriculumAndInstruction

Honoring #LYSFE poet Charles Causley who was born #OTD in 1917. A frequent theme in Causley's poetry is war and its aftermath. Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Ex...perience was written out of reflection of WWI and WWII and the fall from innocence to experience is its central theme. Wonderful videos of Natalie Merchant performing Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eM1RskUKOs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMarUuty_yo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn0WL90XvWs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWh7L5gTyb0 Curriculum platform for teachers: www.leaveyoursleepforeducation.com