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Something Wicked

Welcome to my monthly blog, your exclusive insight into the heartbeat of our community and our commitment to educating gifted students. Through my lens as Head of School, I'm thrilled to share this journey with you.

On the first Monday of each month, join me as we explore the forefront of educational excellence, celebrate diversity, and offer a glimpse into the extraordinary world of Roeper. As we delve into these topics and others, expect to witness Roeper's leadership in gifted education and our students' potential as future change makers.

This Month's Post

Inside the World of Gifted Ed with Christopher Federico

RECENT POSTS

List of 3 news stories.

Evidence-Based Practice Makes Perfect
5/13/2025

An innate communitywide culture of learning would lead to fewer quick fixes that seem to work at first and then backfire.¹

Over my 30 years as a teacher (and my nearly 20 years as a student) in pre-K to 12 education, I have been exposed to “the latest thing” in education more times than I can remember.

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Talking with Teachers
3/11/2025
As a teacher, I always approached parent-teacher conferences with a certain amount of trepidation: how was I, in the short span of 10 minutes that I was allotted (and in any given year, I would have been teaching around 120 students, so we had to be pretty ruthless about the timing) going to be able to discuss anything truly insightful with parents about their child’s experience in my class, far less their experience as a whole person?
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What Should Schools be Teaching?
2/3/2025

Students and teachers need the skills to be successful in a fluid, rapidly changing, and ambiguous future.

For students and teachers to be prepared for that future, they need to become self-evolving learners with a growing individual and collective comfort and capacity for change.¹

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