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Let Us Find and Motivate More Smart Kids

An article in the October 2 New York Times highlighted the success of an incentive program in which low income high schoolers are taking AP courses and earning college credit with high scores on the A… more →

All Kinds of Smart

Let Us Find and Motivate More Smart Kids — 1 comment

ellieschatz wrote 1 year ago: An article in the October 2 New York Times highlighted the success of an incentive program in which … more →

Tags: Advanced Placement (AP) classes, Advocacy for the gifted, Diversity of giftedness, excellence in education, high expectations, It's Good to Be Smart, Motivation, Smart is cool, Teaching smart kids

Pyramid Model

ellieschatz wrote 1 year ago: In the investment world, pyramid is a bad word. A pyramid scheme is structured with an initial recru … more →

Tags: Gifted and Talented children, early learning, Growing up smart, Teaching smart kids, School Models, excellence in education, Core elements of learning and being smart, Diversity of giftedness, Definitions related to talent development

Let the Children Learn, Dream, and Reach Out for More — 2 comments

ellieschatz wrote 1 year ago: I read an article in the New York Times this week that made me nostalgic and hopeful at the same tim … more →

Tags: Advocacy for the gifted, Awesome children, Compassion and respect, Cumulative Advantage, Diversity of giftedness, Early identification of giftedness, excellence in education, Gifted and Talented children, Grandma Says It's Good to Be Smart

From Curiosity to Mentors to Career

ellieschatz wrote 2 years ago: In December 2010, Royal Society Publishing reported on a study completed by 8- and 9-year old scient … more →

Tags: Awesome children, Compassion and respect, Core elements of learning and being smart, curiosity, Developing a child's curiosity, excellence in education, Grandma Says It's Good to Be Smart, Grandma Says It's Good to Be Curious, Growing up smart

Autistic and Gifted

ellieschatz wrote 2 years ago: Every parent of an autistic child should read the books of Temple Grandin and see the movie about he … more →

Tags: Compassion and respect, Early identification of giftedness, early learning, Gifted and Talented children, Growing up smart, high expectations, It's Good to Be Smart, Labeling learning disabled children, Parenting an autisitc child for success

Urban Prep: A Model for Excellence

ellieschatz wrote 2 years ago: I had the opportunity to hear several young men from Urban Prep Academies of Chicago speak this morn … more →

Tags: Awesome children, Compassion and respect, Cumulative Advantage, Diversity of giftedness, excellence in education, Gifted and Talented children, Growing up smart, high expectations, It's Good to Be Smart

Smart Kids Who Stutter

ellieschatz wrote 2 years ago: With the release of “The King’s Speech,” stuttering has become a topic of conversation unlike anytim … more →

Tags: Grandma Says It's Good to Be Smart, early learning, young children, Different Kinds of Smart, Growing up smart, The chance to learn, Smart is cool, Awesome children, Parenting a child who stutters

Smart and ADD

ellieschatz wrote 2 years ago: I’m on vacation in the Caribbean, but I got to talking with someone about adults with Attention Defi … more →

Tags: Creative Kids, Different Kinds of Smart, Growing up smart, It's Good to Be Smart, Teaching smart kids, Compassion and respect, Awesome children, Early identification of giftedness, Adults with ADD

Can Your Child Read a Menu?

ellieschatz wrote 2 years ago: Recently the Madison Urban League shared the trailer for an upcoming film, “TEACHED: A Film about Ed … more →

Tags: Grandma Says It's Good to Be Smart, early learning, young children, Growing up smart, It's Good to Be Smart, Cumulative Advantage, The chance to learn, excellence in education, Smart is cool

Waiting for Excellence in Education — 1 comment

ellieschatz wrote 2 years ago: Waiting for high expectations. That’s what all the good teachers and good schools featured in the “W … more →

Tags: Grandma Says It's Good to Be Smart, early learning, Growing up smart, It's Good to Be Smart, The chance to learn, School Models, excellence in education, Smart is cool, Passion in teaching and learning

Achievement Gap Versus Opportunity: A Success Story — 1 comment

ellieschatz wrote 2 years ago: According to the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University: “The best available evidence indi … more →

Tags: early learning, Growing up smart, Cumulative Advantage, The chance to learn, excellence in education, Core elements of learning and being smart, Diversity of giftedness, Modeling a love of reading, Optimal match

Waiting for Superman

ellieschatz wrote 2 years ago: I hate to think of myself as a pessimist, but I have been feeling that, as a country, we were doomed … more →

Tags: The chance to learn, School Models, excellence in education, Passion in teaching and learning, Core elements of learning and being smart, Parenting for academic success, high expectations, serious learning, caring about ideas

High Expectations from Good Role Models

ellieschatz wrote 2 years ago: This summer I happened to tune into Oprah on the day she was interviewing Wes Moore, a Rhodes schola … more →

Tags: Gifted and Talented children, Grandma Says It's Good to Be Smart, early learning, young children, Growing up smart, Cumulative Advantage, The chance to learn, excellence in education, Smart is cool

Opening Doors of Opportunity

ellieschatz wrote 2 years ago: If a child opens one door of opportunity, other opportunities that otherwise might not have existed … more →

Tags: Gifted and Talented children, Grandma Says It's Good to Be Smart, early learning, Growing up smart, Passion for a field of learning, Cumulative Advantage, The chance to learn, Views of intelligence, excellence in education

Young Learners — 2 comments

ellieschatz wrote 3 years ago: I dreamed of influencing new generations of motivated learners when I wrote “Grandma Says It … more →

Tags: Gifted and Talented children, Grandma Says It's Good to Be Smart, early learning, young children, Creative Kids, Children's Books, Growing up smart, It's Good to Be Smart, Cumulative Advantage

Core Elements of Learning

ellieschatz wrote 3 years ago: On The New York Times Op Ed page, February 23, 2010, columnist Bob Herbert talked about Deborah Kenn … more →

Tags: Grandma Says It's Good to Be Smart, early learning, Growing up smart, Passion for a field of learning, The chance to learn, School Models, excellence in education, Smart is cool, Passion in teaching and learning

Different Kinds of Smart — 1 comment

ellieschatz wrote 3 years ago: Recently someone inquired as to whether there were really different kinds of smart. I think the prob … more →

Tags: Children's Books, Creative Kids, Different Kinds of Smart, Gifted and Talented children, Grandma Says It's Good to Be Smart, Growing up smart, It's Good to Be Smart, Passion for a field of learning, Teaching smart kids

"Outliers" – My Response 2

ellieschatz wrote 3 years ago: Aside from his epilogue about his mother and grandmother, Gladwell ends his book with the story of M … more →

Tags: Gifted and Talented children, early learning, young children, Growing up smart, It's Good to Be Smart, Showing versus hiding one's talents, Cumulative Advantage, The chance to learn, academically minded

Outliers — 3 comments

ellieschatz wrote 3 years ago: Malcolm Gladwell’s book about outliers is thought provoking and disturbing to me. Maybe successful s … more →

Tags: Gifted and Talented children, early learning, Different Kinds of Smart, Growing up smart, It's Good to Be Smart, Showing versus hiding one's talents, Life Long Learning, raising smart children, Be Smart!


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