Our Gifted Blog

After opening our doors in September 2015 with 12 students, we have officially outgrown our current space, and will be opening new doors in September 2019 to 90 students in grades Pre-K through [...]

How a picnic is based on facts about giftedness As we near the beginning of each school year, Grayson holds a family picnic so new students and families can meet returning families, allowing our [...]

When my seven year old scored in the top 1% on the WISC IQ test, my life mission became to provide him with every gifted opportunity listed on Hoagies. I didn’t have time to helicopter parent, [...]

Our K-1 Class had a blast at their Improv workshop with Dr. Zakreski and Ms. O this week. One of the activities we did was build a story, “one word at a time,” with each student [...]

Last week, Grayson welcomed Desilee Tate, a teacher of gifted K-6 students at Loreto Kirribilli, a girls’ school in Sydney, Australia.  Ms. Tate won a prestigious Churchill Fellowship to [...]

Parents are understandably and quite correctly concerned about what media their children consume; even though admittedly the television can provide a welcome and much-needed respite for parents, [...]

I find that we’ve been saying every variation of the word “excite” in the last few weeks, about a lot of different things: the incredible opportunities that have fallen into [...]

We are very excited to offer a delicious, organic, and locally-sourced daily lunch program  for the 2017-2018 school year from JPM Catering in Ardmore! We have explored many options based on the [...]

Congratulations to the 359 Delaware County students who answered 111,571 questions correctly in a Sumdog online math contest! Sumdog is an online math program for kids K-8 to build math fluency [...]

Ally O'Rourke-Barrett, as our families know, will wear many different hats at Grayson this year, much to our delight and benefit. No matter what task she has in front of her, however, it will be [...]

If gifted children are constantly being recognized for their achievements, how do they react when they cannot solve a problem or they fail at something? Stephen Chou, a board director of SENG [...]

Sometimes, gifted children may seem uninterested in a topic because it is not challenging enough. This is why Beth Werrell, an author on Virtual Learning Connections, wrote an article with tips [...]

Many times, gifted children will act mature for their age one minute and then act immaturely the next. This can be a frustrating as a parent to know how to make sense of this. However, this tends [...]

According to Dr. Ellen D. Fiedler, PhD. , organization is often something that gifted children seem to struggle with. Many times, this can lead to children getting frustrated with themselves or [...]

At Grayson we are excited to be celebrating National Parenting Gifted Children Week! Parents deserve this recognition for all that they do to help their gifted children to excel and reach their [...]

Jay Mathews’s June 21 column, “Why are American schools slowing down so many bright children?” echoes the question first asked in the seminal work of research on acceleration in [...]

Gifted children’s families often struggle and sacrifice to find the money to pay for their children’s tuition to private schools. Although there are few scholarships specifically for gifted [...]

Hello from sunny San Jose, California! We are so glad to be spending the weekend at the 2014 annual SENG Conference with parents, gifted adults and children, and educators of the gifted, to [...]

You may have already seen it, but over the weekend we were reading Dr. Jordan Ellenberg’s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, “The Wrong Way to Treat Child Geniuses.” Its subtitle will provide you [...]

As any parent trying to find programming for their gifted child knows, keeping a gifted child challenged can be more than a full-time job. Given that public gifted education in the United States [...]

We wanted to share a couple TEDx Talks that we have enjoyed featuring the Davidson Institute for Talent Development in Reno, Nevada, a public gifted school that we love.

Last week, we discussed the myth that “all children are gifted,” and how perpetuating this myth undercuts the real struggles that gifted learners face. At the beginning of this week, we had the [...]

It’s true that all children are gifts. It’s true that all children have gifts and struggles. What is not true, however, is also a common myth that exemplifies one of the most fundamental [...]

As the snow piles up outside, we are already thinking of sunshine: namely, the annual SENG Conference, this year being held in San Jose, CA, July 18-20. If you’re not familiar with them, [...]

Education Week recently highlighted the efforts of parents to see gifted programming funded for their children, particularly in the face of increasingly tight school budgets (Parents Press for [...]