Education In America

                 Cassy’s experience with gifted education is personal.  As a gifted student herself growing up in a rural community, intentions were good but resources were sparse.  However, the real crash course in gifted education began with the birth of her children-each gifted, and each very different.  She has spent countless hours over the years doing research in an effort to personally understand children who stray from the "neuro-cognitive norm" from infancy.  As a parent of gifted children, she recognizes that they have a tendency to bump up against the status quo, both in public and private spheres.  She knows the intensity that often accompanies giftedness, and what it means to live with it around the clock.

                She is well-versed in issues around state mandates, identification screening, above-level testing and acceleration because she has been in the principal’s office of every school her children have attended advocating for appropriate academic opportunities.  Family moves over the last two decades have allowed her children the opportunity to attend charter schools, bilingual schools, large suburban schools, urban GT magnet schools, as well as spending time being homeschooled.