What is GiftedEd.org?

Based on the founders' research at Stanford University and our experience as parents of profoundly gifted children, GiftedEd provides innovative classes that help support curious and advanced learners in mathematics, language arts, social studies, science, computer science, social-emotional learning, and art.

GiftedEd nurtures critical and creative thinking in a diverse community of gifted learners by providing a supportive and flexible online learning environment. By pairing passionate teachers with engaging and interactive academic content, GiftedEd offers appropriate acceleration and enjoyable learning experience.

GiftedEd courses are designed to appeal to gifted learners who crave new challenges and believe that learning should be fun! Classes emphasize critical thinking and teachers encourage children to draw their own connections between ideas.

GiftedEd classes feature:

  • Live weekly webinars via Zoom meetings
  • Flexible placement
  • Support for multiple learning styles
  • Acceleration options for asynchronous learners
  • Passionate teachers who are subject-matter experts and are ones of the best at teaching gifted children on online platforms

GiftedEd offers stimulating, interactive online classes. Our courses foster enjoyable learning experiences for gifted and talented students, including 2e, and will keep your child interested and engaged.

GiftedEd creates an inspiring learning environment with dynamic, interactive online courses with live weekly webinars for gifted and talented students, including 2e.

We help parents educate their gifted children so they can nurture their child’s development to the highest potential. Dedicated, passionate educators support and encourage GiftedEd students to develop their talents and grow into confident, proficient lifelong learners.  


Can you tell me more about the founders?

Our founders are Stanford graduates. They have done research on learning and technology and won awards from Google, Ericsson, Yahoo!, and Stanford. While pursuing their PhD studies at Stanford University, they developed learning technology, which won first prizes from Google. Nathan joined a startup, AdMob, which was then acquired by Google, and became a Googler. Patty has been a director of Silicon Valley technology companies, conducted interdisciplinary research in learning, behavioral science, and technology, and worked as a research and teaching assistant at Stanford's School of Engineering, Graduate School of Business, and Graduate School of Education, as well as created innovative software systems for creative learning and artistic expression.

 

Growing up in a family of International Math & Science Olympians, Patty enjoys mathematics, science, and linguistics. She received 99th percentile on all standardized tests. She continues to be involved in the field of education while supporting her children who are Davidson Young Scholars. She has also assisted in the Stanford Math Circle program at Stanford University and the Palo Alto Math Circle. Always joyful and genuinely warm, Patty sees the light in every child, and loves nurturing and teaching children. A certified meditation teacher, she also holds a certificate in education from Harvard University and has finished Michael Nitai Deranja's course in Principles of Education For Life, which has proven to provide a balanced education in which individualized, deep learning and inner joy go hand in hand.


Positive Mathematics™

Mainstream psychology focuses on mental ailments while positive psychology learns from happy and top performers. Likewise, our positive view of mathematics is in contrary to “negative mathematics”, prevalent in our society and in educational research, which is driven by the motivation to reduce math trauma and anxiety. What motivates children who like math to reach their highest potential is not always the same as what motivates children who dislike math to attain a little bit closer to or above average.

 

The Positive Math™ model encourages thinking and learning like top mathematicians.

Similar to studies in the rising field of Positive Psychology, we’ve studied happy, mathematically-attuned people and children and discovered what they did differently.

 

Positive Mathematics™ fosters Natural, Joyful, Advanced Learning.

 

“Knowledge without love will not stick. But if love comes first, knowledge is sure to follow.” - John Burroughs

 

"Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world. With the tools of mathematics in hand, you can understand the world in a deeper, sounder, and more meaningful way." - Jordan Ellenberg, Professor of Mathematics, PhD (Harvard)

 

Our Positive Math approach is grounded in research and supported by true mathematicians and computer scientists from Stanford, MIT, and Google.

 

The founders' families have enjoyed math so much that many members have won math/CS contests such as a gold medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) and Google Best Gadget Awards, as well as undertaken PhD studies in applied mathematics. Their students have become winners of national contests including Kangaroo Math USA, International Math Competition, and WonderLeague Robotics Contest.