TPP 178: The Davidson Institute on Supporting & Educating Profoundly Gifted Children
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is the focus of this episode on profoundly gifted children?
Giftedness isn't like, Oh, you won the genetic lottery. It's your brain is wired differently. And there's this really good positive side to it, but it's unrealistic for us to expect that that's all there is because that brain is wired differently than the quote unquote norm.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Reaver, and in today's episode, we are going to be exploring profound giftedness. I've done a few podcasts about giftedness as a narrow difference in the past, and I've certainly talked a lot about twice exceptionalities, but today I wanted to explore those children who are considered profoundly gifted, which means these are children who score at least three standard deviations above the norm on the bell curve. So they are at the extreme end of the intelligence or the IQ continuum. As you can imagine, profoundly gifted children have unique educational and social emotional needs.
So today I'm talking with two experts from the Davidson Institute, a US-based organization that offers support to profoundly gifted young people through programs and services. My guests are Dr. Stacy Hawthorne, the Director of Online Learning for the Davidson Academy Online, and Dr. Jessica Potts, a teacher at the Academy. Stacy and Jessica have extensive experience serving this population of unique learners. So today they're going to share with us their insights and best practices for how to identify and support profoundly gifted children. Before I get to our conversation, a few quick announcements. First, I wanted to give a quick shout out to podcast supporter Dawn Dochney. Thank you so much for being a part of this community and for helping support the production costs for this show.
And if you too get a lot out of Tilt Parenting and would like to make a small monthly contribution to help fund the show, it's really easy to do. Just go to patreon.com slash Tilt Parenting and sign up. You can pledge ten, five, or even just two dollars a month. Again, that's patreon.com slash tiltparenting. Okay, and now here is my conversation with Stacey and Jessica of the Davidson Institute. Hey Stacy and Jessica, welcome to the podcast. Hello. I haven't done a ton of episodes with two guests, but I always think it's kind of fun and a little challenging, but we'll just kind of go with it. I know you both bring different expertise to this. So before we dive into the content, can you just take a minute to introduce yourselves?
Maybe uh Stacy start with you and then Jessica.
Perfect, thanks. Um, yeah, so I'm Stacey Hawthorne. I am the director of online programs for the Davidson Academy and the Davidson Institute. Um, I'm currently working on my doctorate in the field of um online learning for gifted education. So this is a really exciting job for me because it matches what I'm interested in studying and my research passions as well. Um, I'm also the parent of two profoundly gifted students who are now adults and I've been a gifted teacher before. So I've had this experience as a mom, as a teacher, as an administrator, and it's just nice to be able to see what good education does for um our gifted students today.
And my name is Jessica Potts and I'm an English instructor and the curriculum coordinator at Davidson Academy Online. Um I've been with the Davidson Academy, both brick and mortar and online, for 11 years, and I absolutely love working with this population. Uh my PhD is also in gifted education and online learning and it's a a neat little niche area that's just kind of now being explored. Um so a lot of my research centers around that intersection of gifted education and online education. And I'm really happy to be talking about these kids today.
And for people who aren't familiar, can you just take a minute to tell us about the Davidson Institute for people who may not have heard of it before and and Davidson Academy?
Yep, so I'll start and then Jessica, feel free to add in anything else.
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