Adventures in Being Gifted

Eventually, we all have to get a job.  What if parents and students who are working really hard found practical solutions that made all the difference in the world to land the jobs they want? 

Jill talks with Matt Marvin, author of the book "NAILED IT! 10 Keys to Crushing the Interview" and president of MGM Consulting, about "cheat codes" to land the jobs you want in high school, college, and for your career.

3 gifted young adults takeover the podcast to talk about their gifted adventures since elementary school, anxieties, friends, how to get the most from a senior year, mentors, and the need for caffeine.

In this episode, we talk with a longstanding education consultant, Allison Zmuda, about personalized learning and the habits of mind. We've found them to be amazing in our classroom and hope you'll find it that way for you too.

Personalized learning helps build student self-direction, curiosity, and impact. It helps develop opportunities for students to express their voices, co-create and design, and discover who they are as learners. 

The Habits of Mind are dispositions or thinking behaviors that are desirable attributes for learning and living productively in a complex world. 

We talk with Dr. Daniel Fried, a Yale-educated chemistry professor, who created curriculum that makes high-level chemistry and biochemistry fun and rewarding for kids of any age. We're blown away by what students can learn!

We chat with April Wells, a gifted educator, thought leader, NAGC Board of Directors member, and author.  She's inspiring and insightful about the essential task of working toward equity in gifted programs.  

We unlock our true creative potential (and so can you) in this episode. One of the global leaders in creativity, Drew Boyd, talks about his counterintuitive and powerfully effective approach to creativity called SIT (Systematic Inventive Thinking). It's an innovative and unconventional approach that embraces “inside the box” thinking. And it works!

Plus we hear from Christy, who gave herself permission to be an artist at 47 years old!

We welcome Erica Whitfield to discuss the different ways parents think that they are listening but may actually be shutting down communication with their kids plus talk about a listening method that leads to tremendous success.  

The author of more than 250 articles and twenty books, Jim Delisle talks about underachievement, empowering students to find their true potential, and "making risks" not just taking them.

Season 3 starts off with a bang! The renowned author of "Kids These Days", Dr. Jody Carrington, joins us for a chat. She talks about (re)connecting, finding purpose and passion as we continue to deal with the aftermath of the global pandemic, and finding ways to build an empathic classroom to reach all students.

As we end Season 2, we continue our conversations about the upcoming summer and how to use it to grow, learn and, most of all, have fun! We talk with Dale Moberly, a veteran teacher who has taken middle schoolers to Costa Rica. These trips get students to step out of their comfort zones and take adventurous risks. We also talk with Jason Riggle, one of the more curious people we've ever met. He talks about being curious, knowing our limits, and embracing failure.