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Contact me for: For more Information on supporting and encouraging children’s optimal development, visit http://www.beyondintelligence.net. Parents and educators are invited to read Beyond Intelligence: Secrets for Raising Happily Productive Kids, a new book co-authored with Dona Matthews, and published by House of Anansi Press. In Beyond Intelligence parents discover how to transform everyday circumstances into opportunities for children and adolescents to develop and activate their intelligence, and to apply their efforts productively and successfully–now, and into the future. Beyond Intelligence is written for busy parents, and includes quizzes, checklists, and quick summaries, making the book easy to navigate and refer back to.

Joanne Foster, EdD, is co-author (with Dona Matthews) of the award winning Being Smart about Gifted Education (2009, Great Potential Press) and Beyond Intelligence: Secrets for Raising Happily Productive Kids (2014, House of Anansi Press). As a parent, teacher, consultant, researcher, and education specialist, Dr. Foster has more than 30 years of experience working in the field of gifted education. She teaches at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, and writes and presents extensively on a wide range of gifted-related topics at conferences and learning venues across North America. She is the author of the series ABCs of Being Smart, featured in the journal Parenting for High Potential, Published by the National Association for Gifted Children. Her next book (in press) is Not Now Maybe Later: Helping Children Overcome Procrastination. Visit http://www.beyondintelligence.net for articles, blogs, links, and resources on a variety of topics.