While planning this post I decided to find an image to go with my topic of gifted students. I went to google images and typed 'gifted students." Thinking I might get an info-graph about gifted students I began looking through the images. I soon realized a theme among the images. Many of these images pictured young people in glasses sporting their smartest looks in front of a chalkboard with e=mc^2 written on it. It is disappointing that with all of the research and knowledge about gifted students out there this is how we actually picture gifted students. Being gifted is not just about excelling in math. Being gifted means so much more. This website from Scholastic gives a little more insight to what it truly means when we talk about gifted students. It is written particularly for parents but it gives us an idea of what parents expect from their gifted student and their gifted student's teacher. So lets get educated on what being gifted means and stop labeling stock photos of kids in glasses with math equations behind them as gifted. Gifted means so much more than that. 
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