TPP 149: Educator and Author Kelly Hirt Shares Strategies for "Boosting" Twice-Exceptional / 2e Kids
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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Who is Kelly Hirt and what inspired her to focus on twice‑exceptional children?
I think just looking at individual students and knowing that the things that I talk about in my book, they're not that hard and they're not expensive at all. It's basically just having a shift in thinking about us having a responsibility to all of our students when they walk in the door.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. My name is Debbie Rieber, and I'm the host of this show. And today my guest is Kelly Hurt, a full-time working elementary school teacher in the public school system who also happens to homeschool her own child. Because she bridges these two worlds of both being an educator of young children and raising a differently wired child, Kelly has a truly unique perspective on how we can help our atypical Kiddos thrive both in school and in life. Last year, Kelly authored the book Boost: 12 Effective Ways to Lift Up Our Twice Exceptional Children, which was published by the Gifted Homeschool Forums Press.
So today, Kelly shares some strategies from Boost, which are useful for parents of any differently wired kid, not just those who are 2e. She also shares some useful insights. on managing that parent-teacher relationship that can be so tricky for many of us. So I hope you enjoy our conversation. Okay, thank you so much, and now here is my conversation with Kelly. Hi Kelly, welcome to the podcast. Hi, Debbie. Thanks for having me. Well, my pleasure. I'm uh looking forward to talking more about The topic of educating or boosting two-we or twice exceptional kids. And even before we get into more of the meat of that, I just wanna let listeners know that though the book Kelly wrote in a lot of our conversation is focused on these strategies that parents can implement in supporting their two-week kids.
So many of these are really relevant to parents of all differently wired kids. Parents of all kids total, but I think there's a lot of relevant takeaways for our audience. So I just wanted to encourage you to to listen, even if you're feeling initially that this might not be especially relevant for your child. So Kelly, before we talk more about our topic today, could you just introduce yourself, tell us a little bit about your story and how you came to be doing this work.
Absolutely. I was a Elementary teacher for fourteen years before I became a parent. I had a son who Um The people around me were telling me, Wow, you know, he's advanced. Have you ever wondered if he's gifted? You know, being a school teacher, I was thrilled to hear that he could be bright. He started Метин ірли милост, а дені венти ску. Things kind of changed suddenly, and um I realised. The typical school was not going to be a good place for him. I couldn't figure out why. So I went on a fact finding mission and I found out for the first time. Івен автор бина тічефін є. What the term twice exceptional meant. Um I hadn't heard. Of the lingo. And I started thinking about some of the past students that I had had.
that really looking back probably fit the label. They were really good readers, but they couldn't write. Ам, деворі вербал. But reading was hard socially Sensory there were things about school that just were unexpected. And so I started finding out about twice exceptional children. I found out really quickly through social media, mostly Facebook. that um I was not alone and I started a blog um My twice baked potato. To try and connect parents and educators. Who were all having similar experiences, and also I wanted to share what I had learned. And then quickly I realized that my son would be better off home schooled. And I turned to gifted home school forum.
How did Kelly discover the concept of twice‑exceptional learning and begin homeschooling?
And between gifted home school forum and myself. We created this book, Boost. And my colleagues now I've been teaching. Twenty seven years. And my colleagues like it. I'm getting good feedback. And I'm excited to Кип авокатий форсь ексепціонал кід.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who is Kelly Hirt and what inspired her to focus on twice‑exceptional children?
0:00–4:38
2
How did Kelly discover the concept of twice‑exceptional learning and begin homeschooling?
4:38–8:39
3
What practical classroom strategies does Kelly use to support 2e students?
8:39–13:49
4
How can teachers improve communication with parents of differently‑wired kids?
13:49–18:25
5
What are Kelly’s tips for advocating and securing accommodations without an IEP?
18:25–22:07
6
How does the ‘Fascinate’ strategy boost engagement for twice‑exceptional learners?
22:07–26:14
7
Where can parents find mentors to nurture their child’s high‑interest passions?
26:14–30:52
8
How can families connect with Kelly Hirt and access her resources?
30:52–34:37
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