Leonardo Gifted School is partner or member of: ECHA - European Council for High Ability, WCGTC - World Council for Gifted and Talented Children, AERO - Alternative Education Resource Organization, BPLUSA - Big Picture Learning Design USA, University of Bucharest - Faculty of Phychology and Educational Sciences, University of Connecticut - Neag School of Education, Simon Fraser University - Faculty of Education
In our school every child learns at his very own speed and has an individual educational plan. What you see in the pictures are gifted kids who pursued their photo interest and graduated a very hands-on class with Lucian Calugarescu, architect and photographer. Leonardo Gifted School is a unique school designed to serve the needs of gifted from 3 to 12 years old.
Leonardo is for the gifted children between 3 and 12 who cannot perform at their true value in the existing schools. We understand that gifted children first need a proper balance between their high IQ (over 130) and their EQ (usually lower than the IQ) and then they will be able to perform at their own speed. Leonardo is for the gifted children who are currently looking for alternatives to the standard education. We know how to make learning interesting, full of joy and really effective.
What else is possible? You don’t need to go through the pain of the traditional school in order to realize your potential. You can be free to do it from the beginning. And be among friends, children like you.
Is your child gifted? Here are 12 signs.
Come to an IQ testing
We are committed to make your child happy by learning, using innovative teaching methods.
Here is how:
* We work on the perspective of the gifted, not the system.The children are the vectors, and the teachers are facilitators because we follow the perspective of the children. So children are fully involved in the learning process.
* Human Intensive. 4+ learning specialists assigned to work with a group of 15 kids because they need constant feedback and learn at different speed
* Enrichment and Kinest Enrichment gives your child the chance to experiment exactly what he wants to explore in one place; 3 sessions of Kinest every day; this will balance brain hemispheres and develop body intelligence. Kinest is an assigned school teacher to work body intelligence so that your kid integrates his mind to his body
* We work in nature so that your kid at 5 o’clock has taken the weather in his life and made enough movement to come home and get the necessary rest with you
* An Individual Educational Plan per child is closely followed by the Director of Education and the parents because every child is responsilble to learn at the minimum every subject, but he can easily out-perform in several fields of interest. Parents and children are all aware and negociate these objectives, which simply suit real needs. Here in the picture you see a child with a paper where there are written out her specific competencies she worked on and were acquired in a year. We do not teach for exams, we facilitate children’s learning to become consciously competent of their strong and weak areas from an early age and develop intensively their interests and passions. So that later they can become adults with a sense of ownership of what they want to do with their own life.
Even one week in our environment could change the life of your child! So it would be a tremendous opportunity for a gifted to work in a differentiated environment every day, without interruptions, with peers.
Improved EQ
Use at true value their IQ
Long term
School Transfer and What’s next
16 September: school starts
Ongoing – applications are open (6 stages of selection) for Leonardo Gifted School for the new headquarters in the middle of the city, near Unirii – Alba Iulia.
6 Steps Selection
Step 1: IQ test, WISC IV / SON-R
Step 2: Behavioural Evaluation with Psychologist Commission
Step 3: Interview of the Parents with the Psychologist and Counsellor
15 years experience in gifted education, Monica is Leonardo‘s Principal.
As the Project manager of Centrul Gifted Education, she contributed significanty to defining the first and only Romanian law on the special needs of gifted children, Law 17/2007. Mensa UK member.
We have the highest expertise in working with gifted and their families in Romania. Throughout the past 15 years we accumulated more than 4800 hours of direct work with the gifted children, more than 4500 children IQ tested at international standards and more than 390 children graduated the organization’s weekend academic program.
Florian Colceag, PhD
International expert in gifted education supports Leonardo Gifed School and will be one of the mentors
Florian Colceag, also named „the geniuses‘ coach“, owns a PhD in economics, a world record of 84 medals at international maths contests with the students he trained, specialist in math modling theories.
(authentic personalities, teachers of Enrichment classes)
Mentorship in math, complexity in thinking and crisis solving
He is an instrumentalist artist, singer and songwriter. He graduated from the Academy of Music “Gheorghe Dima”, in Cluj-Napoca, Department of Cello and Chamber Music.
Offers mentoring in Development of ecological, intelligence, Skydiving, Gliding, Swimming
Mentorship in thinking and surviving by thinking
Offering English lessons and in the art of story-telling.
Cecilia is a DIY (do it yourself)
mentor and she will support children
to create practical objects
Mentoring for percussion, salsa, juggling
Mentoring for Emotional Geography: Virtual trip around the world of travel photography. Travel experiences accompanied by local music. Swing for customs and legends from other cultures.
Mentoring in piano study
Honorary mentor in inventics
Mentoring in the acting art
Mentoring in rapid learning, speed reading and acceleration
Mentoring in the development and integration of multiple intelligences
Workshops: Creative Writing and Reading, Critical Thinking and Argumentation, Introduction to Philosophy, Introduction to the History of Religions, Applied General Knowledge, History of Games, Applied Creativity
Mentoring in kinesthetic development and creativity
Offering mentoring in chess
by Centrul Gifted Education
(great ways to interact with the mentors of Leonardo Gifted Schol)
Gifted Family Camp
(August)
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Academic Program School of Excellence
(weekend program for gifted children, Oct – May)
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(Academic Program, Bright Summer School and Gifted Family Camp)
“The most important thing Stefan learned at this school is how to analyze a situation and make a decision. My boy gets in contact easier with other children.”
“Horia had a significant evolution. He learnt especially tolerance and acceptance of others. Language development is one of the most important skills developed.”
“I have learnt to listen to my child and how to better communicate from child to parent and vice versa. He works much better and is more responsible.