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Empowering Parents and
Kids Through Challenge and Change
Fall 2021, Published by Gifted Unlimited LLC Being Smart about Gifted Learning: Empowering Parents and Kids Through Challenge
and Change is the third edition of the multi-award-winning Being Smart,
and it is totally updated and revised! Dona Matthews, Ph.D., and Joanne Foster, Ed.D., provide information and strategies
to encourage children’s and adolescents’ optimal development. The authors offer current perspectives on the field
of gifted education, and they address questions and concerns pertaining to many topics including creativity, assessments,
programming, homeschooling, motivation, neural plasticity, diversity, social-emotional issues, and advocacy. This book is
full of resources and practical suggestions for maximizing learning opportunities, and for fostering high-level development
more broadly. (Coming fall, 2021. Published by Gifted Unlimited, LLC.) For information about
Being Smart about Gifted Learning, and to order the book, please visit the publisher’s site here.
"This tremendous book
describes how gifted education resources can be applied to nurturing talent broadly and inclusively across the population.
The Optimal Match approach demystifies understandings of giftedness, and brings common sense to conceptions of meaningful
learning at home, school, and elsewhere."
-Scott
Barry Kaufman, Ph.D., Columbia University “By presenting exciting new work on mindsets, as well as recent research findings on expertise and cognitive
neuroscience, these authors show the importance of habits of mind in cognitive development. This book will prompt re-examination
of many long-held beliefs!”
- Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., Stanford University “Rich
with examples, this book highlights the importance of an optimal match between challenging and engaging school and home experiences
and opportunities to develop gifts and talents! A practical, thoughtful contribution by two leading experts!”
-Sally M. Reis, Ph.D., University of Connecticut
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Also by Dona Matthews and Joanne Foster, Beyond Intelligence: Secrets for Raising Happily Productive Kids House of Anansi, 2014
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For children
who love to learn, and for parents and educators who seek to provide the necessary supports in that process: guidance, challenge,
and encouragement.
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