The Center for Advanced Academics

A compelling story from a gifted learner who wasn't engaged or challenged in school.

This morning's 'Varied Voice' talks about what he sees as the cost of coasting through school without interest, challenge or engagement - https://www.aaegt.net.au/i-got-lucky-other-s-don-t

This applies to both ends of the spectrum: If a school only offers one intervention for every advanced learner, that is not individualized decision making.

Too many schools do not even pretend instruction is individualized anymore.

Children are placed into the same intervention room and given whatever the school happens to offer — regardless of their disability, skill deficits, learning profile, or response to instruction.

You get what you get.

That is not individualized decision-making.

This is excellent! As online teachers, we recieve a lot of unprofessional and rude messages from students. We use the messages as opportunities to redirect students and help them develop their professional voice.

The Middle Schooler’s Guide to Sending Professional Emails!

Link: https://briantolentino.com/the-middle-schoolers-guide-to-sending-professional-emails/

Advanced learning advocates, now is the time to start the conversation. Budget decisions, staffing, schedules, and priorities for next year are already beginning to take shape.

Put the bug in your admin’s ear now. Share student stories, growth data, and a clear vision for what stronger advanced learning opportunities could look like in your building. Small conversations today can turn into real investment next year.

Meeting every student’s needs means including those who require more challenge, not just those who need support to catch up.

Give me space to explore, room to question, opportunity to create, agency to transform and faith to alchemize (and may I grant myself all of these from within)! 🙏

A great opportunity for Madison area students grades 7–12. Students will explore reporting, writing, and storytelling in the Cap Times newsroom and will publish a story in the newspaper!

Interested in journalism or curious about how news works? Join Youth Press Corps this summer!

Students entering grades 7–12 will explore reporting, writing, and storytelling in partnership with The Cap Times—right in the Cap Times newsroom. Even better, participants will publish a story in the newspaper.

More info + registration: https://gmwp.wisc.edu/youth-press-corps/

Does your child love making up stories? 📚✍️

Our online Writers’ Workshop for grades 5–8 gives students the chance to develop their own stories in a supportive, encouraging environment this summer. Whether they love fantasy, fan fiction, dystopia, graphic novels, or realistic fiction, students can continue a current project or begin something completely new while receiving feedback from instructors and fellow writers.

📅 Session 1: June 15–July 17
Register by June 8
**No class June 29–July 5

📅 Session 2: July 20–August 14
Register by July 13

💻 Online, Asynchronous
💲 $125 per session

🔗 centerforadvancedacademics.com/registration/

Students in "Remix: The Grimm Side of Fairy Tales" worked collaboratively to rewrite tales into choose-your-own-adventure stories. As they shared their work, the class discussed how different moral choices shaped each character’s journey and outcome. This activity challenged students to think critically about storytelling, perspective, and the consequences of decisions while also stretching their creativity as writers.