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3D Learner, Inc
3D Learner provides workshops, in-services, speeches and individualized training programs that focus on the bright right-brained learners. These students are often gifted and experience problems with processing speed, working memory and/or test ...
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Attend iD Tech Camps: North America's #1 Tech Camp!
Experience North America's most reputable summer technology program. Over 100,000 kids and teens worldwide have learned to create video games, websites with Flash®, digital movies, C++ and Java programs, iPhone® and Facebook® apps, robots, 3D ...
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Attend the iD Gaming Academy - Game Design Summer Program
Game On! Learn first-hand how industry professionals create premier commercial video games. Ages 13-18 immerse in the dynamic world of video game development and choose from one of four courses: Modeling & Animation with Maya®, Programming for Game ...
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Attend the iD Visual Arts Academy
For two weeks, ages 13-18 choose from 3 courses: Film Production with Apple Final Cut Studio®, Professional Photography and Professional Web Design. All graduates leave with a portfolio and the tools to excel in the rapidly changing field of visual ...
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Center for Talent Development (CTD) at Northwestern University
The Summer Program at CTD offers students the chance to enjoy engaging courses on a college campus with intellectual peers. Enrichment, honors and AP? courses are available for students completing PreK through grade 12. Residential opportunities ...
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CLC Network
CLC Network offers online math, pre-algebra, algebra, geometry and honors English courses for middle school-aged students who excel in these areas and who have limited opportunity to work at a level that challenges their ability. Students enjoy the ...
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Davidson Institute for Talent Development
In 1999 former educational software entrepreneurs, Jan and Bob Davidson, founded the Davidson Institute for Talent Development, a nonprofit operating foundation, out of a concern that our nation’s most gifted and talented young people are largely ...
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Duke TIP (Duke University Talent Indentification Program)
Duke TIP’s educational programs are residential summer programs designed to meet the intellectual and social needs of gifted students in grades 7-12. Programs are held on college campuses across the country and in field locations around the world. ...
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Gift Of Logic, Inc
Parents/Teachers of Gifted and Talented :
Want to give the best gift for your children/gifted students? - then please consider gifting them the Gift Of Logic -Critical Thinking & Logical Reasoning Series.
* Series of 12 books written with the ...
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Gifted Education Resource Institute
The Gifted Education Resource Institute (GERI) provides outstanding residential summer camps for gifted and talented youth in grades 5-12 that stimulate imagination, expand abilities, and create lasting friendships. Get a taste of college life while ...
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Great Books Foundation
Read.Think.Discuss.Grow.
The Great Books Foundation empowers readers of all ages to become more
reflective and responsible thinkers. To accomplish this, we teach the art of civil discourse through the Shared Inquiry™ method, and publish ...
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Great Potential Press
An award-winning company that publishes quality books and materials for parents and teachers of gifted children. GPP's publications are based on research and life experiences and provide information to support, encourage, and foster growth in the ...
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Green River Preserve
The Green River Preserve is a fun summer camp with substance, designed specifically for bright, curious, and creative children. Here, campers connect with the natural world* as well as explore the arts, experience adventure, gain new skills, and ...
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K12
Many children simply do not thrive in the one-size-fits-all approach of a traditional classroom. This can be especially true for gifted kids. For them, the four walls of a classroom can feel like the four sides of a box.
At K12, we understand ...
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Lintor Make-A-Book, Inc.
Lintor Make-A-Book provides an INNOVATIVE and EASY way to enrich and expand your students' language, writing and technology skills across all content areas and all grade levels. Interested in starting an Afterschool Writing Club? Have you ever ...
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Mindfull Games
Our best seller, Verbal Volley®, is an exciting new word game which teaches unlimited vocabulary. It can be used at the elementary, middle school and high school levels. The game can be played by as few as two players or with two teams of any size. ...
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Open Space Communications LLC
Understanding Our Gifted, a quarterly journal for educators, parents, and counselors, is in its 20th year!
Understanding Our Gifted provides practical strategies and valuable resources for those who live and work with gifted ...
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Program for the Exceptionally Gifted at Mary Baldwin College
The Program for the Exceptionally Gifted (PEG) is an innovative educational alternative designed to meet the needs of academically gifted middle and high-school-aged females. At PEG students begin their college education one to six years early and ...
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Prufrock Press Inc., Gifted Education Publisher
Gifted education publisher Prufrock Press offers award-winning products focused on gifted children, advanced learning, and special needs learners. For more than 20 years, Prufrock has supported gifted children and their education and development. ...
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Ricks Center for Gifted Children
The Ricks Center for Gifted Children at the University of Denver offers programs for children ages three through eighth grade. Designed to address the intellectual, social, emotional, aesthetic and physical needs of gifted children, the curriculum ...
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Seacamp Association, Inc.
Seacamp is a Marine Biology/SCUBA summer camp for teens 12-17 located in the beautiful Florida Keys. Our tropical location on Newfound Harbor in the lower Keys is just minutes from the only living coral reef in the United States. Just 30 miles east ...
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Summer Institute for the Gifted
The Summer Institute for the Gifted offers prestigious & unique 3 week residential, commuter & day, co-educational, summer programs for gifted & talented students in grades K-11 at top institutions across the US. Campuses include Princeton ...
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You Can Do the Rubik's Cube
You Can Do the Rubik’s Cube Math Education Kit is perfect for challenging your Gifted Student.
Teach Geometry, Algebra and General Math while promoting 21st century skills like problem solving and critical thinking. Each Kit includes 12 Rubik’s ...
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4 Star Camps at the University of Virginia
Academic Enrichment programs for middle school and high school students. Among the courses offered are SAT Prep, Writing (essay and creative), Math, Enviromental Science, Business and Languages. Academics may be combined with any of our afternoon ...
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Academic Treks
Academic Treks, a division of Broadreach, offers college-accredited summer adventures abroad for high school students. Backed by sixteen years of experience in running educational programs for thousands of teenagers, Academic Treks combines the ...
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Acadia Institute of Oceanography
The Acadia Institute of Oceanography is a hands-on summer science program where young people are offered a unique oceanographic experience on the coast of Maine. For 33 years, AIO has offered a field-oriented program with activities at rocky tidal ...
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Adventure Treks
Adventure Treks has been providing safe outdoor experiences for teens since 1978! Our Adventure Programs are offered during the summer, while our School Programs are offered in the fall. In addition to an immeasurable amount of fun, these programs ...
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Barnard College - Columbia Univ. Summer in New York City
The Barnard College Summer in New York City Pre-College Program offers rising high school juniors and seniors the opportunity to immerse themselves in college life. Academic course offerings, which include topics as varied as architecture, art, ESL ...
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Belvoir Terrace, a Visual and Performing Arts Camp for Girls
Belvoir offers exciting training in art, dance, music, theater and individual sports. Girls grades three through ten develop skill, creativity and self confidence. Each girl selects her own program and is then placed in small classes graded by age ...
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Berklee College of Music Summer Programs
Berklee College of Music was founded on the revolutionary principle that the best way to prepare students for careers in music is through the study and practice of contemporary music. For more than half a century, the college has evolved to reflect ...
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BEST SUMMER EVER at Summer Study Programs
Summer Study Programs provides students completing 9th, 10th or 11th grade the opportunity to take college-credit courses, enrichment classes, the Kaplan SAT prep course and intensive sports clinics at four world-famous locations...Penn State ...
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Brown University Pre-College Programs
Pre-College Programs at Brown University
Prepare to succeed in a college environment. Experience the freedom and responsibility of college life. Discover and develop new passions. Meet exceptional students from around the world. Connect with ...
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Buckley Educational Group, LLC
Buckley Educational Group, LLC is the Premier Educational Consulting Practice in the Greater Bay Area. Our mission is to work with the whole child (social, academic and emotional) to discover the best and most appropriate educational resources and ...
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Burgundy Center for Wildlife Studies Summer Camp
Overnight nature camps for teens (aged 11-15) and children (aged 8-10), also a weekend for Adults in July.
Unique for small size (32 campers to a session), the strongest assets of this program are the knowledgeable, dynamic, caring staff, quality ...
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Cardigan Summer Session
Cardigan’s Summer Session is a unique program for boys and girls in grades three through nine. In six weeks, students improve their academic and athletic skills, develop friendships, and enjoy New Hampshire’s beautiful outdoors. Most importantly, ...
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Center for Gifted at National-Louis University
Offering a creative approach to education, Center for Gifted programs provide fresh opportunities for bright young learners to explore diverse subjects in a challenging, creative environment, free from the pressure of tests or grades. In a ...
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Competition for Talented Kids
By Frances Karnes and Tracy Riley
In this completely revised and expanded edition, students will find a treasure trove of information on selecting, entering, and competing in national contests. The book also features complete information on who ...
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Creator 2 - Zometool
“The node knows what I’m thinking.”
- 12-year-old at an Aspen Institute Picnic
Zometool is creative, hands-on mathematics toy for children ages 4 and above, and their parents, students, educators, scientists, engineers, architects and ...
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CTY Diagnostic and Counseling Center
The Diagnostic and Counseling Center (DCC) is part of the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, a world leader in gifted education. The DCC was founded over ten years ago to help families address the educational needs of gifted children, ...
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Deer Hill Expeditions
The Deer Hill Experience
Deer Hill offers a unique and powerful blend of wilderness expeditions and community service programs for 7th through 12th grade students. Since 1984, we have guided young people to some of the most wild and beautiful ...
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Education Program for Gifted Youth, Stanford University
The EPGY Summer Institutes are two, three and four-week residential programs offered by Stanford University for academically talented and motivated middle and high-school students. The Summer Institutes provide an opportunity for these students to ...
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Educational Consultant
Private educational consultant specializing in meeting the emotional, social, and intellectual needs of gifted children.
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Environmental Studies Summer Youth Institute
Located in the heart of New York's Finger Lakes region, on Seneca Lake, the Environmental Studies Summer Youth Institute at Hobart and William Smith Colleges provides exceptional opportunities to explore the scientific, social, and humanistic ...
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Ferrum College Summer Enrichment Camp
Academically motivated students; (grades 5-7); co-ed residential camp; participate in a variety of fun activities and challenging projects. Classes include: Adobe Photoshop, Cooking 101, Crime Scene Investigators I & II, Disease Detectives, Dragon ...
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Frances A. Karnes Center for Gifted Studies
The Summer Program for Academically Talented Youth, a three-week residential program scheduled for July 4-23 is designed for students in grades seven through 10 who qualify based on SAT or ACT results. A variety of intensive, fast-paced courses ...
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Genius Coaching
Speaking, seminars and personal coaching for gifted and talented children, their parents and teachers to increase clarity, effectiveness in communication and implement insights into practical daily life.
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GRASP
GRASP (Grand Rapids Academic Summer Program) is a correspondence program in math and reading for grades K-8. The program seeks to help students retain skills learned during the past school year by providing review exercises. There are about 20,000 ...
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Great Books Summer Program
Read and discuss selections from classic and contemporary literature with college professors and top faculty at Amherst College and Stanford University. Co-ed, residential program for grades 6-12. Also, writing, theater, music and art.
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Guided Discoveries
Summer Camps that Educate and Inspire:
Catalina Sea Camp, Astrocamp, and Tall Ship Sailing. These California camps are among the finest accredited camps in the nation. Whether it's studying marine biology on Catalina Island, learning astronomy in ...
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Helping Gifted Children Soar
By: C. Strip
This book is for Parents, Teachers, and Counselors.
This user-friendly guidebook educates parents and teachers about important gifted issues such as working with schools, evaluating classroom programs, forming parent support ...
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IDEAL
IDEAL offers distinctive academic enrichment programs to high-achieving children in grades K-12 to promote academic excellence, citizenship, leadership, diversity, and appreciation of the arts. Programs include Super Saturdays, Shake Hands With Your ...
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InspirEd Educators
InspirEd Educators offers complete, student-centered, and THOUGHT-PROVOKING instructional units for social studies and language arts (so far). All units include lesson plans that vary daily, focused warm-ups, research guides, and differentiated ...
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Institute for Educational Advancement
The Institute for Educational Advancement offers two summer programs.
The Apprenticeship Program is a three or four week residential summer program that provides gifted high school students with the opportunity to gain hands-on experience working ...
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July Experience @ Davidson
July Experience is a pre-college summer enrichment program for rising high school junior and seniors offered July 4 - 24, 2010. The program is sponsored by the Davidson College Department of Education and offers a preview of college life on one of ...
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Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS)
JETS provides programs and resources that let students explore, assess, and experience engineering first-hand. From exciting student competitions to assessment tools and career exploration materials, JETS provides multiple pathways for students to ...
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Keystone School
Keystone School, located near downtown San Antonio, is a nationally-recognized, college preparatory school offering small classes and an accelerated environment for students in grades K-12. Graduates from the Class of 2009 will attend colleges all ...
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Mackintosh Academy
We are pleased to introduce you to Mackintosh Academy, and welcome you to explore our school with us. Students, faculty, and parents are all very proud of our school philosophy and community and would be honored to share our experiences with ...
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Manitoba Science Academy
The Manitoba Science Academy (Canada) offers a six-week (in-house) program for scientifically gifted high school students (Grade 10-12). The program provides placement for students on research projects with professional scientists. Students benefit ...
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Morph-O-Scopes by OOZ & OZ
What’s a Morph-O-Scope?
Morph-O-Scopes are unique 21st Century toys inspired by an ingenious 16th Century Chinese mirror device called an “anamorphoscope.” To picture the concept, think fun house – only in reverse. Imagine a weird, warped alien ...
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NAGC Mile Marker Series
Your GPS for the world of gifted and talented education. More than a map or one-dimensional tour book, the NAGC Mile Marker series is a multi-dimensional navigational toolbox that you’ll need to traverse the vast landscape of gifted education as you ...
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Night Eagle Wilderness Adventures
A primitive summer camp for boys, ages 10-14
Located in the Green Mountains of Vermont and surrounded by National Forest, Night Eagle is a unique primitive summer camp. Outdoor community living and a wilderness skills based program combine to ...
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Oxbridge Academic Programs
Oxbridge Academic Programs offers academic summer programs in Oxford, Cambridge, Paris, Montpellier, and Barcelona.
Each program is designed to immerse students in two academic subjects or creative arts while taking advantage of the enormous ...
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Peak Performance for Smart Kids
By Maureen Neihart, Psy.D.
Peak Performance for Smart Kids provides success strategies, activities, tools, real-life examples, and checklists for parents to employ to help their kids achieve to their highest potential
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People to People Ambassador Programs
For New Orleans, the world changed forever on August 29, 2005. Five years later, the region is still reinventing itself. Now, a People to People Leadership Summit offers exceptional students a chance to give back what was lost while learning to ...
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People to People Leadership Programs
People to People offers leadership development programs in Washington, D.C. and at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Stanford, and other prestigious colleges across the United States. Students in grades 5-12 come from all over the world to hone ...
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Perfectionism: What's bad about being too good
Find out if you are a perfectionist. Explore some of the possible reasons why you are. This book offers lots of useful strategies for learning how to ease up on yourself and get your perfectionism under control.
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Phoenix Country Day School
Phoenix Country Day School is an independent, co-educational day school of 700 students in grades pre-k through 12. Founded in 1961 and located on a 40-acre campus in a residential suburb of Phoenix, the School serves the 4 million residents of ...
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PORTSMOUTH ABBEY SCHOOL
Portsmouth Abbey School is the nation’s leading coeducational Catholic boarding school. Unique in its English Benedictine tradition, it offers a challenging academic curriculum rich in mathematics and science and built upon a signature Humanities ...
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Quadrago by Mindtwister
Quadrago, is a 1 Mind-twisting, 2 Player, 3 Dimensional, 4 In-a-Row strategy game, that is both simple and sophisticated at the same time, It's challenging and fun for both kids and adults.
The object of the game is to create a row of four ...
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Quest Academy
Quest Academy, an independent day school for children preschool through eighth grade, admits students who show evidence of exceptional intellectual capability. Quest provides Intellectually advanced children a challenging and nurturing educational ...
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Re-Forming Gifted Education
Summary: Based on an analysis of a centuries worth of research, Rogers presents information in an easily understood format on specific aspects of gifted programming, including: types of giftedness, gifts versus talents, assessment measures, ...
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Ringling College of Art and Design
Ringling College of Art and Design is a private, not-for-profit, fully accredited college offering the Bachelor's degree in fourteen disciplines. Located in Sarasota, FL, the College is a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and ...
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Riverside Publishing
Riverside Publishing’s Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT®) is your best choice to identify gifted students while expanding instructional opportunities for the whole class. The (CogAT) is a group administered ability assessment that measures students’ ...
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Science Camp Watonka
Science Camp Watonka is a small summer camp in the Poconos offering hands-on science and a complete range of crafts, sports, waterfront, climbing, mini-bikes and trips. Our 46 year history, cabin accommodation, 11 laboratories and staff ratio of 1:3 ...
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SEA High School Summer Seminars
Sea Education Association (SEA) offers unique 3-week Summer Seminars designed to give high school students a hands-on introduction to the field of marine science while encouraging them to develop a greater understanding of and appreciation for our ...
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Smart Girls
by Barbara A. Kerr
Presents insight and offers practical ideas for parents, teachers, and counselors of gifted females.
Table of Contents:
1 - The Leaders of Tomorrow: A Retelling
2 - Looking for the Leaders of Tomorrow
3 - Twenty Years ...
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SuperCamp
Over 25 years of Making Great Kids Greater! Kids and teens gain an academic edge with learning and life skills at a fun 10-day summer residential program held at eight prestigious colleges in the U.S., including Cornell, Stanford, Wake Forest and ...
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The Critical Thinking Company
Develop critical thinking skills with highly effective lessons in reading, writing, math, science, and history. We do not use drill and memorization or teach to the tests —we empower the mind! We guarantee our educational books and software will ...
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The Gifted Child Society
Summer Super Stars is a summer day camp that is uniquely tailored for gifted kids from 4-years-old to 8th graders, with plenty of just plain fun activities plus the enrichment of academically challenging classes. Classes are small (10 to 15) and ...
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The Gifted Kids' Survival Guide: For Ages 10 & Under
by Judy Galbraith, M.A.
Addresses questions about why children think and learn the way they do. What does "gifted" mean? Who gets into gifted programs and how? Why do other kids tease them about being smart and what can they do about ...
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The Gifted Kids' Survival Guide; A Teen Handbook
by Judy Galbraith and Jim Delisle
For teenagers that are gifted and talented, this is the ultimate guide to surviving and thriving in a world that doesn't always value, support, or understand high ability. Step-by-step strategies, practical ...
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The Sage School
The Sage School is a private, independent, non-profit day school dedicated to serving the educational needs of academically gifted girls & boys in greater Boston and Providence.
The Sage School at a glance:
• A day school dedicated to realizing ...
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The Survival Guide for Parents of Gifted Kids
by Joan Franklin Smutny
A practical guide to help parents advocate for their child. Includes how to recognize a child's gifts and understand their problems at school; demystifies a school district's gifted education policies, uses real-life ...
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The Wisconsin Center for Gifted Learners, Inc.
The Wisconsin Center for Gifted Learners offers three main services: the Magellan Day School, EPL; Developing Dimensions Saturday and Summer sessions; and a Parent Support Council that meets monthly.
Magellan Day School, Early Preparatory ...
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They Say My Kid's Gifted, Now What?
by F. Richard Olenchak
This book provides parents with an easy-to-use guide to negotiating the educational bureaucracy associated with having a child recently identified as gifted.
Table of Contents:
Forward
1. The Double-Edged Sword
2. The ...
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THINK Summer Institute
Exceptional 13- to 16-year-old students interested in a rigorous summer program should consider the Davidson Institute's THINK Summer Institute. This three-week residential summer program offers participants the opportunity to earn college credits ...
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Truman State University
An intensive, three-week residential program with academically challenging curriculum for rising grades 8-10 that offers a rich selection of liberal arts and sciences courses taught by Truman State University faculty. A few of the courses offered ...
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UConn Mentor Connection
Mentor Connection is an annual, three-week, summer program at the University of Connecticut for academically talented secondary students. It provides participants with opportunities to participate in creative projects and research investigations ...
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University Child Development School
University Child Development School is centered around the lives of children and dedicated to the development of their intellect and character. Enrolling 300 children in Preschool through Grade 5, the School actively encourages and everywhere ...
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University of Maryland
The University of Maryland offers two programs, the Young Scholars Program for rising tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grade students, and Young Scholars Discovery for rising eighth and ninth grade students.
YOUNG SCHOLARS PROGRAM
July 11–30, ...
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University of Oregon - Summer Enrichment Program
SEP is a two-week residential summer program providing challenging academic coursework and a wide range of social activities for gifted and highly able 6-10 grade students. Students are encouraged to largely construct their own schedules while at ...
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University School @ The University of Tulsa
University School is a full school program for gifted children from age three through 8thgrade. The curriculum thoroughly covers all basic skills, provides challenging extensions for learning, and encourages creativity. In addition to the regular ...
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Washington University - High School Summer Scholars Program
For an early taste of college, attend our residential or commuter academic summer program for talented high school sophomores and juniors. We have two five-week sessions, June 13 to July 17, and July 18 to August 20. You may enroll in up to seven ...
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Webb School
What makes a truly great school? It’s more than highly accomplished graduates. It’s graduates with character, people who know the right thing to do and who have the courage to do it. It’s more than a challenging education. It’s a learning ...
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What's My Style?
What's My Style? for the student who doesn't test well, despite doing well in class, is great with complex issues but stymied by simple ones, loses focus, and is a master of procrastination.
This is a break-through book. It translates the world of ...
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Wisconsin Center for Academically Talented Youth (WCATY)
WCATY is the only statewide, year-round organization in Wisconsin dedicated to serving gifted students. WCATY's mission is to nurture Wisconsin's most academically talented students by providing programs that support, motivate, and challenge them. ...
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