A Meaningful Mess: Real Conversations about Gifted Education and Genius Hour
Hosted by Andi McNair · Andi McNair
5.0from 47 ratings
- 124
- Episodes
- 8
- Transcribed
- 47
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
About A Meaningful Mess: Real Conversations about Gifted Education and Genius Hour
Andi McNair is an author, international speaker/ consultant, and educator that is passionate about helping educators design meaningful experiences for today’s gifted learners. As a mom of gifted learners and an educator that had the opportunity to work specifically with gifted learners in the classroom, she as a unique perspective that is clear throughout her message. As a strong advocate for passion-based learning, Andi shares practical ways to engage and empower today's gifted learners through meaningful experiences, even when it's messy.
- Publisher
- Andi McNair
- Category
- education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Jan 2018
- Latest episode
- 5 Oct 2026
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8 of 124 episodes have a transcript.
5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 125: 3 Ways to Create Intellectual Turbulence
19 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 124: Beyond the Door: Finding the Gifted Learners We Might Be Missing
24 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 123: The Meaningful M.E.S.S. Method
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Episode 125: 3 Ways to Create Intellectual Turbulence
Published 5 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] If I make it harder, then I'm giving them what they need. And sometimes for teachers, I think that looks like giving them more problems, maybe a harder question, another page, a higher level vocabulary. But here's the thing, difficulty and challenge, those aren't always necessarily the same thing. A gifted learner can complete something that looks incredibly difficult to us without experiencing much intellectual challenge at all, right? And another learner could encounter something like a seemingly simple question that completely disrupts the way that they've been thinking. That's the difference that I want you to really think about throughout today's episode. […]
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