Honoring Three Gifted Education Rock Stars

On Friday, November 17th, the Institute for Educational Advancement (IEA) will honor three tremendous individuals who have worked to address the needs of gifted education in our community

How IEA Shaped My Life

Institute for Educational Advancement - Connecting bright minds; nurturing intellectual and personal growth

Byron Lichenstein, CDB Scholar, Yunasa camper, Apprentice, and IEA Board Member reflects on IEA being an integral part of his life

Brains, Science and Academy

An IEA Academy student connected with and interviewed Dr. Wendy Gilmore, Associate Professor of Neurology and Cell and Neurobiology in the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Comprehensive Care Center & Research Group in the USC Keck School of Medicine.

Mindfulness and the Gifted

The stories are anecdotal but the research is clear: The gifted person’s experience of the world is quantitatively and qualitatively different from those we might describe as more “neuro-typical” in their development