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When Teaching Gifted Children Triggers Your Own Wounds

I was the gifted kid who became a teacher to help other gifted kids but watching them struggle with the same isolation and pressure I had makes me relive my own trauma every day.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Professional proximity to giftedness reactivates unresolved personal educational trauma.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Gifted education and its discontents?”

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