Is your highly/profoundly gifted child getting the individualized support they need?
Penelope Institute brings together a global team of gifted education experts to collaboratively design solutions as unique as your child’s journey.
You name it, we customize it.
Welcome
Hillary Jade, MA MSc (she/her)
Program Director
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Highly and profoundly gifted (HG/PG) students have always been beyond: beyond the box, beyond the impossible, and beyond one-size-fits-all definitions. At Penelope Institute, our student Scholars pursue their areas of passion and untapped potential through highly customizable and adaptive, one-to-one and small group instruction with experts in their fields from around the world. Designed to serve the unserved, Penelope’s course offerings expand wherever HG and PG students’ imaginations go, with tailored content, inquiry, and support from our gifted Fellows — anywhere, and in any timezone.
Penelope takes students beyond gifted schools and enrichment programming, by giving students agency over what they learn and how they apply it. Unlimited by scope, funding, and accessibility, unfettered by emphasis on acceleration or differentiation, Penelope goes beyond traditional gifted programs to provide our Scholars what they want to learn, what they need to thrive emotionally, in a safe and inclusive community.
Join us beyond the boundaries of what you and your child have previously experienced in gifted education. We look forward to connecting with you!
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Our Fellows
Penelope Fellows are a highly collaborative team of subject-matter experts, every one with extensive experience serving the highly and profoundly gifted — many are themselves highly/profoundly gifted — as well as many years, even decades, of direct tutoring and mentoring experience, not just managing large classrooms.
Our Courses
Penelope Institute offers rigorous, interdisciplinary, and individualized study across the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities. Note that our courses are not offered by specific faculty; our entire team is collaborative and every course draws on our combined centuries of total gifted, teaching, and mentoring experience.
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What We Offer
Lightning Seminars
On-demand, scheduled when sufficient interest in a topic
Rigorous content based on our faculty specialties
May also propose any topic our faculty can collectively cover
Any of our subject experts on the topic may present collaboratively
Online, live interaction between all participants
Safe environment sensitive to socio-emotional needs
45-minute sessions
Individual sessions
Class size capped at 5
100USD/session
Small Group Classes
On-demand, scheduled whenever all Scholars and Fellows agree on a topic
Rigorous content personalized to class interest
May also propose any topic our faculty can collectively cover
Any of our entire faculty may collaborate as appropriate for the current topic
Online, live interaction between all participants
Safe environment sensitive to socio-emotional needs
Session length flexible, usually 30–60 min
Course length flexible, usually 4–12 meetings
Class size capped at 5
100–200USD/hr, depending on size
One-on-One Mentoring
On-demand, scheduled whenever Scholar and Fellows agree
Rigorous, personally individualized content
May also propose any topic or subject our faculty can collectively cover
Any of our entire faculty may collaborate as appropriate for the current topic
Online, live interaction
Safe environment sensitive to socio-emotional needs
Session length flexible
Any number of sessions
Personal instruction
300USD/hr
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