Buy on Amazon Nuby Teething Blanket Noah loves this teething cloth. We have the lion. It’s 9.5″ x 9.5″. It crinkles, and the animal in the center has a squeaker inside. The holes in the corner teething pieces make it easy for him to control what part of the blanket he’s chewing on. Babies that …
Noah is five weeks old now. I feel as if time is passing in some sort of weird time warp. It feels as if the last five weeks have flown by, but at the same time, so much has happened that I can hardly believe it’s only been five weeks. Noah grows and changes so …
What is your child’s favorite book? Help another parent, leave a suggestion in the comments! I LOVE ‘playing librarian.’ If you’ve been to HEROES, you’ve seen our library. It’s on the small side – with just about 1,000 books BUT I’ve read every single one of them! This makes it both easy and fun to …
Wow! It’s been quite a year. The school year isn’t quite over, but it’s hard to resist taking a moment to reflect on the school year. Construction in the middle of a pandemic was anything but easy, and I would have certainly thought that building this school would be my “great accomplishment” of the year. …
We Made it: A Year of In-Person Learning Amidst COVID Read More »
I grew up with gifted. I work with gifted. People often ask, “So, you must be gifted too.” Yet, I never thought of myself as gifted. I still don’t. When my peers labeled me as “that smart kid’s sister.” It didn’t hurt nearly as much that they were teasing me but rather that all they …
Go ahead, label me. I’m sure you will. I’m sure you will before you’ve even finished reading my story. Please remember, this is my story. I’ve never been labeled. I’ve never been tested. I’ve worked with gifted students for at least 10 years. I grew up with a gifted younger brother. People always assume, “So, you must …
The first time I saw him, he reminded me so much of Q. The way he rolled his head back when he was thinking. His lack of eye contact when speaking. His abnormally precise language, his obsession with numbers, especially very large numbers resulting from doubling, irrational numbers and those resulting from functions unknown to …
Genius without Borders: Socializing Mathematical Genius Read More »
I find myself returning to the same question over and over — what makes certain individuals gifted? It is, I suppose, the very basis for gifted education and, hence, my career. It is the question that floats around education blogs, gifted education professionals, and parents of gifted children. No doubt, many parents of gifted children …
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MAY 2014 HEROES Academy visited Cedarbrook K-8 Center in Plainfield, NJ to aide administration in developing individualized programs for economically disadvantaged gifted students.Beatrice Adewole, Social Worker at Plainfield’s Cedarbrook K-8 Center, contacted Rita Voit, founder of the HEROES Academy, in April 2014 with an interest in the programming HEROES offers for eligible students (based on HEROES …
As Thanksgiving approaches family and friends are brought together for sometimes much too long awaited reunions to sit down, put work aside, and reminisce fond memories. Our families are communities that we are born into—and pretty hard to get rid of (even when we try haha). However, our friends and many other communities we subscribe …
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