Blogs about: Gifted Ed
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Goodbye to Hard Work
I’m suffering a bit of too-many-thoughts paralysis lately — I want to write about everything, and so write about nothing! But I’m a little excited about this one. A Facebook friend l… more →
Red Sea School
Homeschooling is Optional
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shaun wrote 3 weeks ago: I’m on a few e-mail lists about gifted ed, and as I mentioned they have a mix of homeschoolers … more →
Is School a Game?
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shaun wrote 3 weeks ago: A very interesting and sometimes contentious conversation on this question popped up on an e-mail di … more →
Teaching Spelling -- Your Opinion Sought*
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shaun wrote 1 month ago: *your informed, considered opinion, that is Victoria, nearing 6 1/2, is a fine reader, and once agai … more →
Today's Thoughts on Gifted Ed and Homeschooling
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shaun wrote 1 month ago: We closed on old house this morning — phew! — and we were chatting with the buyers, talk … more →
Violet, Meet Anne
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shaun wrote 2 months ago: Ever since Violet was an early reader I have been holding back books that I thought she might apprec … more →
College Match Matters
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shaun wrote 2 months ago: I know it is unfashionable–perhaps heretical–for homeschoolers to care about where or if … more →
Ya think?
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shaun wrote 2 months ago: Got this link from someone on twitter, who retweeted from someone else, who RTd someone else, and so … more →
Why We Chose to Assess
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shaun wrote 3 months ago: That is, why did we choose to have our then 6-year-old daughter take a battery of tests to assess he … more →
Why Just Summer?
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shaun wrote 4 months ago: Have you seen this story in the NYT yet? Here’s a slice: In 7 weeks he’ll go back to school, t … more →
What Makes a Good Student
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shaun wrote 4 months ago: Have I told you this story? If I know you in real life, I probably have: When Violet had just turned … more →
What Makes a Good Teacher, Ctd.
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shaun wrote 4 months ago: I’m embarrassed that I can’t come up with more examples! I feel a little ungrateful. Sea … more →
Not as Smart
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shaun wrote 7 months ago: I was working out this morning amongst a chatty group of older ladies. One was saying that she was s … more →
Tidbits
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shaun wrote 9 months ago: A smattering of recent events and thoughts 1. Victoria (still age 5, 6 in May) tried her first sleep … more →
Sequencing
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shaun wrote 9 months ago: When we first started homeschool, a friend of mine was concerned about how we would approach math. ( … more →
What to Make of This?
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shaun wrote 10 months ago: When the Label Is ‘Gifted,’ The Debate Is Heated Two schools in Maryland have maintained … more →
The Courage of My Contradictions
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shaun wrote 10 months ago: I am really a schizophrenic homeschooler. I am just too many conflicting personalities rolled into o … more →
Recent Reads
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shaun wrote 1 year ago: It is a gray, gloomy day. After a long illness, I am so out of the habit of going to church that I m … more →
This is Our Curriculum?
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shaun wrote 1 year ago: In an effort to start tracking our homeschooling in case Violet might enroll in outside classes some … more →
What is overachieving, exactly?
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shaun wrote 1 year ago: In homeschooling communities, there are usually people who pooh-pooh the whole gifted thing because … more →
