Dr. joanne Foster, Author
Fostering Kids’ Success
Resources
Welcome to the Resources page curated by Dr. Joanne Foster. Here, she shares insights and knowledge on nurturing children—across the learning spectrum, and across domains, ages, and developmental stages. She offers information and practical tips for parents and educators, including a wealth of articles wherein she focuses on ways to encourage and support intelligence, creativity, productivity, and more. This page is a compendium of material to help families foster kids’ success, and strengthen their well-being.
CATEGORIES
Creativity
Nurturing Creativity
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A Few Good Links on Nurturing Creativity
What Kills Creativity in Kids?
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/what_kills_creativity_in_kids
Three Ways to Support Kids’ Intelligence and Creativity: What to Strive for When Life’s a Whirlwind
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/3_ways_to_support_kids_intelligence_and_creativity_what_to_strive_for_when
Differentiated Learning and Creativity Intertwined
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/differentiated-learning-and-creativity-intertwined
Sensible Ways to Increase Children’s Intelligence AND Creativity
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/sensible-ways-to-encourage-childrens-intelligence-and-creativity
Can Creativity Help Kids Get Through Challenge?
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/can_creativity_help_kids_get_through_challenge
Creative Opportunities for Families
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A Few Good Links on Creative Opportunities for Families
Curiosity in Children
https://www.firsttimeparentmagazine.com/curiosity-in-children/
Taking a Walk on the Bright Side
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/taking-a-walk-on-the-bright-side
Creative Expression: Are Some Kids Missing Out?
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/creative-expression-are-some-kids-missing-out
Creativity and Special Needs Learners
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/creativity_and_special_needs_learners
What Do Productivity and Creativity Have in Common?
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/what_do_productivity_and_creativity_have_in_common
Learning and Development
Intelligence Building: Learning Here, There, and Everywhere
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A Few Good Links on Intelligence Building
Simple Pleasures
https://www.firsttimeparentmagazine.com/simple-pleasures
Young Children and Game-Playing: Ten Suggestions for Parents and Care-Givers
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/young_children_and_game_playing_ten_suggestions_for_parents_and_care_givers
In Appreciation of Teachers
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/in-appreciation-of-teachers
Setting Parental Expectations
https://www.firsttimeparentmagazine.com/setting-parental-expectations
The Best Teachers: What Do Parents Need to Know?
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/the_best_teachers_what_do_parents_need_to_know
Stoicism, Leadership, and Parenting
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/stoicism-leadership-and-parenting
Gifted Learning
Fostering Giftedness
Providing 15 key points, this article guides parents in fostering gifted/high-level development in children, focusing on collaboration, attunement, and informed advocacy to enhance children’s learning experiences and overall well-being.
What Is the Connection Between Prior Knowledge and Learning?
Joanne Foster discusses the vital role of prior knowledge in learning, highlighting how foundational understanding supports new learning and creativity, and guiding parents to build upon children’s existing knowledge and skills.
A Few Good Links on Gifted Learning
Requisites for Learning
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/requisites-for-learning-the-5-rs
Ambitious, Purposeful Kids in an Increasingly Chaotic World
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/ambitious-purposeful-kids-in-an-increasingly-chaotic-world
Creating a Culture Where It’s Cool to Be Smart
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/creating_a_culture_where_its_cool_to_be_smart
Dumbing Down: Why? What Are the Signs? What Can Parents Do?
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/dumbing_down_why_what_are_the_signs_what_can_parents_do
Motivation and Productivity
Procrastination: Tips for Parents and Kids
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A Few Good Links on Procrastination
Are Procrastinators Creative?
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/are_procrastinators_creative
Children’s Tasks: What to AIM For
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/childrens_tasks_what_to_aim_for
Helping Kids Overcome Procrastination: Why Wait?
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/helping_kids_overcome_procrastination_why_wait
Busting Procrastination
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/busting-procrastination-1
How to Help Kid Get on Track—and Stay There: Eight Tips Revealed!
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/how_to_help_kids_get_on_trackand_stay_there_eight_tips_revealed
Productivity and Kids: What Do Parents Need to Know?
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/productivity_and_kids_what_do_parents_need_to_know
Kids Who CAN But WON’T: What Can Parents Do?
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/kids_who_can_but_wont_what_can_parents_do1
Helping Kids Advance Step-By-Step …
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“AHA!” Moments
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/aha_moments
Encouraging Purposeful Pursuits
https://www.firsttimeparentmagazine.com/encouraging-purposeful-pursuits
Kids Confused? Help Them Go from Perplexity to Purpose
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/kids_confused_help_them_go_from_perplexity_to_purpose
From Disappointment to Joy
https://www.firsttimeparentmagazine.com/from-disappointment-to-joy
BIG Picture Thinking
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/big_picture_thinking
Creating Forward Momentum
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/creating_forward_momentum
What’s Your Child’s Potential? (And Does It Really Matter?)
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/whats_your_childs_potential_and_does_it_really_matter
Children’s Well-Being
Meeting Challenges in Today’s World
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ABCs for Parents for the Year(s) Ahead
https://www.firsttimeparentmagazine.com/the-abc-s-for-parents-for-the-years-ahead
ABCs of Cultivating a Love of Learning—For Children
https://www.firsttimeparentmagazine.com/abcs-of-cultivating-a-love-of-learning-for-children/
Finding the Joy
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/finding-the-joy
Embracing Uncertainty
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/embracing-uncertainty
There’s No Place Like Home: Nurturing Children’s Emotional Well-being and Learning
https://www.firsttimeparentmagazine.com/there-s-no-place-like-home-nurturing-children-s-emotional-well-being-learning
Help Children Embrace New Beginnings
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/help-children-embrace-new-beginnings-2
Reflective and Thought-Provoking Pieces
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A Few Good Links to Reflective and Thought-Provoking Pieces
Let’s Be Honest
https://www.firsttimeparentmagazine.com/lets-be-honest
Children’s Learning: Questions for Reflection
https://www.firsttimeparentmagazine.com/childrens-learning-questions-for-reflection
Reading to Kids: Ten Reasons it Matters, Ten Ways to Do It (By Dona Matthews and Joanne Foster)
https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/going-beyond-intelligence/201411/reading-kids-ten-reasons-it-matters-ten-ways-do-it-0
Sharp Minds: Financiers and Creators
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/sharp-minds-financiers-and-creators
Cursive Writing: A Just or Lost Cause?
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/cursive-writing-a-lost-or-just-cause
Too Invested in Your Child’s Activities and Performance?
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/too_invested_in_your_childs_activities_and_performance
Interviews with Interesting People
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Challenges of Creativity: A Second Interview with Artist Rina Gottesman
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/challenges_of_creativity
Crafts and Creativity: Interview with Hope Saul
https://www.creativitypost.com/conversations/crafts-and-creativity
Appreciating Music as a Foundational Aspect of Creativity: Interview with Modern Composer Hanne Deneire
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/appreciating_music_as_a_foundational_aspect_of_creativity
Some of My Favourite Articles
Reflective Habits of Mind—And Kids
Dr. Joanne Foster’s article on ‘Reflective Habits of Mind—and Kids’ emphasizes the importance of reflection in children’s development, discussing how it enhances intelligence, creativity, and personal growth.
A Few Good Links to Some of My Favourite Articles:
An Analogy about the Power of Support: The Evident, the Foundational, and the Imagined…
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/an_analogy_about_the_power_of_support_the_evident_the_foundational_and_the
The Power of Gratitude
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/the_power_of_gratitude
How Children Learn: Fit, Fairness, and Flexibility
https://www.rootsofaction.com/how-children-learn/
What If Kids Avoid or Struggle with Creativity?
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/what_if_kids_avoid_or_struggle_with_creativity
Through the Lives of Others…. Inspiring Children’s Creativity and Productivity
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/through_the_lives_of_others_inspiring_childrens_creativity_and_productivity
Explaining Creativity to Kids
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/explaining_creativity_to_kids
Podcasts On Hot-Button Topics
How to Motivate and Support Gifted Kids
Dr. Joanne Foster discusses motivating gifted children in learning. She emphasizes the importance of finding activities that children feel are meaningful, align with their abilities, and foster independence and connection with others.
A Few Good Links to Podcasts
Co-Creating a Creative Vibe: A 3-part Series (for Parents and Kids) – In Conversation with Stephen Barkley
- Part 1: Understanding Creativity, Its Importance, and How It Develops
- Part 2: Nurturing Creativity Every Day (What Matters Most?)
- Part 3: Strengthening Creativity, Forward Momentum, and Key Take-Aways
Fostering Creativity – Podcast for World Unity Week
The ABCs of Raising Smarter Kids – Podcast with MomEnough
Motivating Gifted Learners: Extending the Essentials – An interview with Molly Isaacs-McLeod for the New Mexico Association for the Gifted Conference
Additional Book Chapters by Dr. Joanne Foster
Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent
Published by Sage Knowledge Publications
https://sk.sagepub.com/reference/giftedness
Extracurricular Activities (Volume 1:343-345); Gifted Education in Canada (co-authored with Marion Porath and Elizabeth Smythe, Volume 1:113-116); Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation (Volume 1:490-491); Parental Attitudes (Volume 2:668-670); Teacher Training (Volume 2:884-887); Thinking Skills (Volume 2:898-899)
Success Strategies for Parenting Gifted Kids
Expert Advice from by The National Association for Gifted Children
Published by Routledge
https://www.amazon.com/Success-Strategies-Parenting-Gifted-Kids/dp/1618219030/
Chapter One (co-authored with Dona Matthews), entitled “Intelligence, IQ, Tests, and Assessments: What Do Parents Need to Know?” (This chapter can be read almost in full by clicking on the “Read Sample” feature on the Amazon product page.)
Recognitions
Recognitions
Celebrating Dr. Joanne Foster’s acclaimed and award-winning contributions to gifted learning and educational literature.
Benjamin Franklin Award
Benjamin Franklin Award
Best Book Award
Best Book Award
Awarded to Being Smart
Awarded to ABCs of Raising Smarter Kids
Mom’s Choice Award
Mom’s Choice Award
Best Book of the Year Award
Best Book of the Year Award
Glyph Award for Publishing Excellence
Glyph Award for Publishing Excellence
Awarded to Being Smart
Publishers Weekly Starred Review
Publishers Weekly Starred Review
Affiliations
Affiliations
Gifted Unlimited, LLC.
Publisher of Books on Gifted/High-Level Development
House of Anansi Press
Canadian Publisher
Baby Sparks
On-Demand Class Parenting
Online Masterclass:
How to Ignite Your Child’s Creativity, and Why It’s Important (On Demand)
