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The Raising Lifelong Learners podcast helps parents — especially homeschooling parents — encourage their differently-wired kids to learn, explore passions, cultivate creativity, and become fascinated by the world around them. Join host Colleen Kessler — educational consultant, gifted specialist, author, and speaker — for interviews, audioblogs, tips, and encouragement to help your differently-wired kiddos become lifelong learners — children who know that they can find the answers to anything they want to know if they can just view their world with play, passion, and fascination.
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The Power Of Reading For Gifted Children: Advanced Readers And Social Emotional Learning
The power of reading and story for all children is undeniable. The power of reading for gifted children is extraordinary. Even if your gifted child is not an advanced reader, there is an important place for reading in social-emotional learning and development. All this month in The Learners Lab, we are focused on…
Homeschooling Our Gifted Children: The Power Of Artful Questions
We’ve been talking about this month about ways to to make our homeschooling experience exceptional for our gifted children. Today, our focus in inquiry based learning – how we use artful questions to help our children dynamically learn. Artful Questions And Interest-Led Learning Inquiry based learning is more than just asking your…
Project Based Learning And Your Gifted Child: A Guide For Parents
This series is all about equipping our kids for the future with a sense of wonder, adventure, joy and encouragement. Today’s topic is a discussion around project based learning – what project based learning really is, plus resources and ideas for how to incorporate it into your homeschool. What Is Project Based Learning?…
Play-Based Learning In Your Homeschool: It’s More Than Just Board Games
This series is all about equipping our kids for the future with a sense of wonder, adventure, joy and encouragement. Throughout the course of this series, we are discussing child led learning and interest driven choices that we can make in our homeschool, to help prepare our children for the future. Today we are specifically…
Future Proofing Our Kids In An Ever Changing World
This new series is all about equipping our kids for the future with a sense of wonder, adventure, joy and encouragement. Today’s topic is an introduction, all about “future proofing” our kids in an ever changing world. Throughout the course of this series, we’ll discuss child led learning and interest driven choices that we can…
Moms With ADHD Homeschooling Children With ADHD
This series is all about homeschooling children with ADHD. Today, I’m sharing my own experience as a mom with ADHD homeschooling my own children with ADHD. This is for moms with ADHD homeschooling children with ADHD. It is not uncommon for parents of children have ADHD to confess to me that they also…