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Summer Camp Roundup
Updated March 2025 with feedback from our community! It’s Winter in the Bay Area - cold weather, dark evenings, and rain. It’s also the...
Jan 31, 2023
Books Featuring Neurodivergent Characters
Need a holiday gift or some winter break reading? Check out this list of books featuring neurodivergent characters, organized by grade. Elementary Just Ask: Be Different. Be Brave. Be You. by Sonia Sotomayor and Rafael Lopez (differences) The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be by Joanna Gaines (differences) The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig (feeling invisible) The Girl Who Thought In Pictures: The Story of Temple Grandin by Julia Finley Mosca (autism) You’re So Clumsy Charle
Dec 5, 2022
Video Game Design: The Where, What and How of College Programs
We spent an hour in conversation with Irene Vassilopoulos, whose oldest child recently explored the video game design programs at colleges across the U.S. How did her family discover and evaluate programs? What was the application process like? Is there anything she wished she’d known before starting the process? Were there any surprises along the way?
Dec 5, 2022
Selected Video Game Design Summer Programs
Video game design and development is a popular interest for 2e students. REEL community member Helen Amick complied this great list of summer game design programs for pre-college students. University-sponsored “Pre-college” Programs COSMOS - California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science Intensive 4-qweek summer residential program Statewide, COSMOS offers a variety of academic clusters at four University of California campuses. Each cluster consists of two scienc
Dec 1, 2022
More than Giving Tuesday
Yesterday, I sat down to look at my calendar. As a new nonprofit, we at REEL have been planning for Giving Tuesday for over a month. But for the first time, I noticed that Giving Tuesday falls on November 29th this year. And, while that may not mean anything to anyone else, it’s steeped in meaning for me. You see, in some ways, I think of November 29, 2018, as the first time that we at REEL truly went “public” with our mission to support twice-exceptional students. REEL actua
Nov 18, 2022
Working Memory and the 2e Learner
Working memory affects every part of a child's life; however, most people know little about it beyond perhaps a score on the WISC test. REEL hosted Thea Slingland, Director of Educational Services for Learnfully, to talk about where working memory is used in daily life and how it affects routines, academics, socializing, and emotions for 2e learners.
Nov 16, 2022
The 5 elements of a successful classroom environment
Successful classroom environments are not born; they are made. They have been intentionally designed to address many different aspects of...
Oct 21, 2022
2e Private School Panel 2022
REEL hosted a panel of parents with kids who have attended both private and public schools as well as psychologist Dr. Lisa White of Summit Center, who advises families on schools for 2e learners. We did not record the session in order to protect the privacy of our panelists.
Oct 19, 2022
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