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Creating Community: Does Anyone Ever Truly Belong? September 9, 2020
Belonging arises from the decision to show up and allow yourself to be seen. If you’re holding back, thinking you’re not good enough or trying to avoid ridicule, it won’t matter what anyone else does. You won’t feel like you belong because you’re not actually present. We all want community. Our culture revolves around being […]
Cara Maclean
Hey, Jude September 9, 2020
Jude attended college with his revised 504 Plan accommodations and executive functions coaching access. We worked together to have these set in place, through his college disability department. He drives. He manages his own bank account. He has a rich social life. My brother is twenty-seven years younger than me. Jude was born four months […]
Magalie A. Pinney
Community. Life or Death? It Was for Us. September 2, 2020
That fall, when Grace started the gifted school-within-a-school program, was not spent focusing or doing what she was supposed to. Her teacher was emailing, albeit carefully, letting me know that she was hoping Grace could focus a bit and give her best effort. These emails made my husband and I smile. She was getting in […]
Kris Happe, MEd
Counting Blue Cars: How Mental Math Led to Love of Life for a Gifted Girl August 27, 2020
sa·pi·o·sex·u·al /ˌsāpēōˈsekSH(o͞o)əl/ adjective1. (of a person) finding intelligence sexually attractive or arousing.“I met a sapiosexual PhD candidate who won’t date anyone who hasn’t read David Foster Wallace.”noun1. a person who finds intelligence sexually attractive or arousing.“I’m a sapiosexual who gets turned on by someone who can wax on about Uighur oppression in China and Basquiat.” […]
Veneranda Aguirre
Journey Toward Community August 26, 2020
As Athena’s has grown, our students have grown with us. It is so rewarding to watch friendships blossom as students connect in the social forums and through classes. Being able to learn and connect with like-minded peers who share a love of learning and have similar interests is an invaluable experience. Have you ever been […]
Dr. Kirsten L. Stein
Finding Community in the Land of ‘All Children are Gifted’ August 19, 2020
At that point, I went full swing into forming clubs to try to attract kids with similar interests. We had a Japanese Language and Culture club; we had a Programming for Kids club. Even though our homeschooling community proclaimed that all of our children were gifted, somehow it was the brainy/thinky kids who found our […]
Suki Wessling

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