Josh Shaine
May 13th to 17th, 2004
Underachievement

Josh Shaine has been teaching gifted children in homes, schools,and
enrichment programs, including the MIT Educational Studies Program, for more than 25 years. For 6 years, he was the headmaster of an alternative school for gifted 7th-12th grade students who were not thriving in traditional educational settings. He is currently on the board of Kids College in New Hampshire. He has also served on the boards of the Hollingworth Center for Highly Gifted Children, the New Hampshire Association for Gifted Education, and the Massachusetts Association for Gifted Education. Josh is the force behind the Beyond IQ Conferences on highly and profoundly gifted children. http://www.giftedconferenceplanners.org

Anna Caveney

Anna Caveney is an education consultant. She has designed and implemented individualized curricula for homeschooling teenagers, developed a theory of the emotional foundations of underachievement and led workshops addressing the challenges and joys of being highly gifted. She has created and taught classes in calculus, thinking skills and peer counseling.

Outline

May 13 -Day One - Opening Statement, Introductions, Definitions, gathering questions
May 14 - Day Two - Causality vs. Correlation, Getting Past Blame
May 15 - Day Three - 2e or not 2e? That is a question. Where does the psychology of the 2e kid diverge from the non-2e underachiever?
May 16 - Day Four - Enough of this healing broken wings crap - what if I don't want the wings to be broken to begin with?!
May 17 - Day Five - Wrap Up, Closing Statements

Josh Shaine has also invited Anna Caveney to participate during the conference. She will focus on the topic of "motivational paralysis".
Her Bio is as follows:

Anna Caveney is an education consultant. She has designed and implemented individualized curricula for homeschooling teenagers, developed a theory of the emotional foundations of underachievement and led workshops addressing the challenges and joys of being highly gifted. She has created and taught classes in calculus, thinking skills and peer counseling.


Reading List
Articles on my website:

"From Overt Behavior to Developing Potential: The Gifted Underachiever"
"Dealing with the Stereotype of Underachievement"
Golden Retriever by Cathy Marciniak
Inside Out by Josh Shaine

Other readings:
PDF article - Working Papers
Underachievement Summary by Dr. Sally M. Reis
Article by Dr. Sally M. Reis & D. Betsy McCoach
Article on Stress & Procrastination
Document - Paper by Sean Demack, David Drew and Mike Grimsley
Sheffield Hallam University

Website to look at
Applied Motivation