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America's untapped STEM potential

September 9, 2016
This THE HIGH FLYER post by Steve V. Coxon, associate professor of education at Maryville University, is an excerpt from Teaching for High Potential (Fall 2014). 

How to diversify gifted and talented programs without dismantling them

September 8, 2016
This THE HIGH FLYER post is by Jeanne Paynter, the 2014 NAGC President's Award receipient and the executive director of Talent Program Solutions and a professor of curriculum and instruction at McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland. 

Reflections on gifted education from the Olympics, part 2: What we can contribute

Sally Krisel
September 7, 2016
This THE HIGH FLYER post is a continued reflection on the parallels between elite-level athletics and gifted education, and I thought how much we could learn about developing exceptional ability from what we saw during those two weeks.

Teacher's Corner: Getting to Know Your Students

Jeff Danielian
September 6, 2016
The start of the school year can bring about feelings of exhaustion, apprehension, confusion, and difficulty for teachers and their students. I know for me the first two weeks of school always prove to be the hardest to get through. 

Cultivating America's future leaders

September 6, 2016
This THE HIGH FLYER post by Robert Pondiscio, a Senior Fellow and Vice President for External Affairs at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, originally appeared in a slightly different form at U.S. News & World. 

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