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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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RLL 22: Finding a Homeschool Co-op and Creating Killer Classes | A Listener Question

As homeschooling parents of outliers, we sometimes feel isolated, and co-ops can fill a need for both our children and ourselves. In this episode, Colleen tackles a question about creating an amazing co-op class from listener, Wendy, but also dives into the different types of co-ops and reasons for joining one. If you’ve ever thought…
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RLL 20: Helping Your Kiddo with Executive Function Skills Struggles | A Listener Question

Gifted and creative kiddos can often struggle with their executive function skills, and we parents are left scratching our heads, and trying to figure out how to get them to be functioning adults who can manage their own lives. In this episode we’ll talk about what executive function skills are, how they’re important, and what…
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RLL 19 Luke Gilkerson: Using Astronomy to Foster an Integrative Approach to Learning

Science — particularly the study of astronomy — can be a great way to integrate your kiddos’ subjects so that they’re incorporating many different areas like literature, writing, and the content areas in one fell swoop… A deep dive into an area for an extended period of time. Today, Colleen talks with Luke Gilkerson about…
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