February 2018 – MindPrint Learning Blog

Supporting Your “Average” Students

by Nancy Weinstein If you’re a teacher, you know there’s no such thing as average. The idea that students can be categorized as gifted, struggling, or “just average” is simplistic at best. The 10/10/80 statistic might be helpful for administrators, but it is useless in the classroom. In this blog inspired by the work of Dr. Todd Rose, we…

Can America’s ‘lost Einsteins’ be found more easily than we think?

Feb 4, 2018Nancy WeinsteinCognitive Ability & IQ Testing, College & Career, Giftedness, Math & STEM, Uncategorizedcapitalization, creativity, Flexible Thinking, Giftedness, innovation, lost Einstein, SMPY, spatial ability

Are we looking for the ‘lost Einsteins’ in the wrong places? Research suggests we should be looking at students’ spatial and flexible thinking skills, not math and science scores. Who are the ‘lost Einsteins’? Late last year the The Equality of Opportunity Project released a report concluding that the U.S. is losing out on as much as 400%…