TEDxNaperville - Tracey Hosey - Foximus Prime

What can one person with passion and the belief that they can change the way we educate children accomplish? Watch Tracey show us. Guest appearance from Foximus Prime. Tracey has been actively involved in gifted education for 16 years, starting this journey first as a parent of a highly gifted boy. Recognizing the lack of understanding and support for these kids, Tracey became an advocate for not only her son but for all gifted children. In 1998, Tracey did extensive research on acceleration learning using districts in the Northern Illinois area as well as contacting many experts in the field of gifted education. She worked with Yorkville School District to set up the first whole grade acceleration policy. Her son was radically accelerated in 1999. In 2002, Tracey went back to school to complete her MATC and focused all of her education towards gifted students. Since then, Tracey has been a 5th grade gifted teacher, a gifted resource teacher for students grades 3-8, Director of Gifted Education working to create a K-2 enrichment, 3-8 gifted program and a consultant for grades 9-12. She has also published four language arts units for the gifted and become a consultant, trainer, and mentor for the state of Illinois and the Gifted Education Seminar. It is her dream to change the way we educate gifted students, inform parents of the special needs of their children, and raise awareness within gifted students themselves, in order to help them become captains of their ships and not passengers in the river of life! In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)