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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.

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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On Being T-Shaped
1/13/2025

I take it that the aim of education is not to gain more and more detailed knowledge of the world but to understand the world and ourselves in it. If we split the world up in order to gain detailed knowledge of it, at some point we have to put it together again in order to understand it.
~R.M. Hutchins¹

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Breaking Down Barriers to Gifted Education
12/2/2024
Just before the Thanksgiving break, I had the opportunity to attend the annual conference of the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) in Seattle, Washington.
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