
Resources
Click for resources our parent group has tried and recommend. Many free or low-cost advanced learning resources are available online.
Local Resources

Books and Articles
Parent recommended resources, including books about a variety of topics that may help your child meet their individual advanced learning needs. These are still useful if a bit older – please let us know if you have additional resources to recommend!
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Clustered for Success Educational Leadership. Issue title: For Each to ExcelCover story in the journal. February 2012, Volume 69, No 5 by Dina Brulles and Susan Winebrenner
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Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students: Helping Kids Cope with Explosive Feelings by Christine Fonseca, 2010
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Bright, Talented, & Black: A Guide for Families of African American Gifted Learners
by Joy Lawson Davis, 2010 -
The Cluster Grouping Handbook: A Schoolwide Model: How to Challenge Gifted Students and Improve Achievement for All by Susan Winebrenner and Dina Brulles, 2008
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Best Practices in Gifted Education: An Evidence-Based Guide by Ann Robinson, Bruce M. Shore, and Donna L. Enersen, 2007
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A Parent’s Guide to Gifted Children by James T. Webb, Janet L. Gore, Edward R. Amend, and Arlene R. DeVries, 2007
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Mindsets: the New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck, 2007
About the difference between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset, and the difference between praising for effort vs. praising for intelligence.
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Fair Isn’t Always Equal: Assessing & Grading in the Differentiated Classroom by Rick Wormeli, 2006
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Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults: ADHD, Bipolar, Ocd, Asperger’s, Depression, and Other Disorders by James T. Webb, Edward R. Amend, Nadia E. Webb and Jean Goerss, 2005
Miscellaneous:
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A Framework for Understanding Poverty by Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D., 2005
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A Guidebook for Twice Exceptional Students: Supporting the Achievement of Gifted Students with Special Needs
Montgomery County Public Schools, Rockville, MD 2003 -
Re-Forming Gifted Education: How Parents and Teachers Can Match the Program to the Child by Karen B. Rogers, 2002
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And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students by Miles Corwin, 2001
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Some of My Best Friends are Book: Guiding Gifted Readers by Judith Wynn Halstead, 2002
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Nobody Nowhere: The Remarkable Autobiography of an Autistic Girl by Donna Williams, 1998
A harrowing and inspiring autobiography of a twice-exceptional girl surviving abuse and creating a life for herself. -
The Teenage Liberation Handbook by Grace Llewellyn, 1998
A resource for teens who are advanced learners and are autodidacts.

Math-specific Resources
Websites, You Tube and Books
BOOKS
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Larry Gonick's Cartoon Guides to ... Algebra, Statistics, Calculus, Physics, etc.
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Math Circle books
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Edward Zaccaro's math books