voiceofsandiego.org: Education... Bringing Teaching for the Gifted to All Kids:
"His mother Sadie said it was '100 percent different' than the way she was taught as a child, and she liked what she saw. Dominic relished getting into debates with other children about the ethics of playground squabbles. He is a pint-sized philosopher with a karate T-shirt and a frank and surprisingly adult manner, who readily picks out what his teachers call the 'Big Ideas' -- one of the buzzwords that mark the new strategies -- in classic stories such as the Tortoise and the Hare."
"The turtle was slow. The hare judged him. No one really thought that the hare wouldn't win -- he's the fastest living creature in the universe," Dominic, now in 2nd grade, explained after school. "So the big idea is, 'Don't judge a person.'"
"His mother Sadie said it was '100 percent different' than the way she was taught as a child, and she liked what she saw. Dominic relished getting into debates with other children about the ethics of playground squabbles. He is a pint-sized philosopher with a karate T-shirt and a frank and surprisingly adult manner, who readily picks out what his teachers call the 'Big Ideas' -- one of the buzzwords that mark the new strategies -- in classic stories such as the Tortoise and the Hare."
"The turtle was slow. The hare judged him. No one really thought that the hare wouldn't win -- he's the fastest living creature in the universe," Dominic, now in 2nd grade, explained after school. "So the big idea is, 'Don't judge a person.'"