Beyond the Page: Supporting the Reluctant Writer
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One of the most challenging academic areas for twice exceptional students is writing. These bright minds often brim with ideas yet freeze when faced with a blank page.
Hear from two panelists to learn about the five root causes of writing challenges, the role of motivation, anxiety, and self-confidence in the writing process, and practical tips for coaching your student with writing.
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1 hours 13 minutes
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Hear from two panelists to learn about the five root causes of writing challenges, the role of motivation, anxiety, and self-confidence in the writing process, and practical tips for coaching your student with writing.
Available for instant download.
1 hours 13 minutes
NWGCA does not endorse any product, service, publication, medication or treatment.
Panelists
Dr. Austina De Bonte (she/her) is President of WA Coalition for Gifted Education, Past President of NW Gifted Child Association, Advisor to The G Word documentary, and a consultant at Smart is not Easy. She specializes in helping families get to the root cause(s) of their kids’ twice exceptional (2e) challenges. She also works with schools to improve equitable identification and service models, and better understand their gifted and 2e learners. Austina is a certified SENG Model Parent Group facilitator. She received the NAGC Carolyn Callahan Doctoral Student Award (2023), People to Watch by Variations 2e (2020), WAETAG Advocacy Award (2019), and three PTA Outstanding Advocate awards. She has a Masters degree from MIT (1998), and an Ed.D. from Bridges Graduate School (2024), where her dissertation was titled “Beyond Universal Screening: Practices and Attitudes that Promote Equity in an Accelerated Program.”
Kriston Sites Eller began teaching and tutoring in 1992 while working on her graduate degree in literature from Indiana University. After designing curriculum and training troop leaders for her local Girl Scout council, homeschooling her two gifted sons through elementary school, and writing two as-yet unpublished novels, she began designing and teaching one-on-one literature, composition, and creative writing courses online for reluctant writers, gifted kids, and twice-exceptional students. Currently, she is semi-retired from teaching literature, focusing most of her professional energy on her favorite job: helping rising seniors in high school write emotionally honest college application essays. She's an unabashed punster, and her literary claims to fame include eating dinner with Toni Morrison and having Dave Letterman read Green Eggs and Ham to her on Indianapolis television.
Dr. Austina De Bonte (she/her) is President of WA Coalition for Gifted Education, Past President of NW Gifted Child Association, Advisor to The G Word documentary, and a consultant at Smart is not Easy. She specializes in helping families get to the root cause(s) of their kids’ twice exceptional (2e) challenges. She also works with schools to improve equitable identification and service models, and better understand their gifted and 2e learners. Austina is a certified SENG Model Parent Group facilitator. She received the NAGC Carolyn Callahan Doctoral Student Award (2023), People to Watch by Variations 2e (2020), WAETAG Advocacy Award (2019), and three PTA Outstanding Advocate awards. She has a Masters degree from MIT (1998), and an Ed.D. from Bridges Graduate School (2024), where her dissertation was titled “Beyond Universal Screening: Practices and Attitudes that Promote Equity in an Accelerated Program.”
Kriston Sites Eller began teaching and tutoring in 1992 while working on her graduate degree in literature from Indiana University. After designing curriculum and training troop leaders for her local Girl Scout council, homeschooling her two gifted sons through elementary school, and writing two as-yet unpublished novels, she began designing and teaching one-on-one literature, composition, and creative writing courses online for reluctant writers, gifted kids, and twice-exceptional students. Currently, she is semi-retired from teaching literature, focusing most of her professional energy on her favorite job: helping rising seniors in high school write emotionally honest college application essays. She's an unabashed punster, and her literary claims to fame include eating dinner with Toni Morrison and having Dave Letterman read Green Eggs and Ham to her on Indianapolis television.
