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Ready to help your gifted child have the skills necessary for after graduation?
Introducing the Gift Center Parent University
Set Up To See You Thrive.
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What you'll receive inside Parent University:
âď¸Learn how to support your gifted child with financial aid, mental health, and how to maximize college & career readiness opportunities(summer jobs, internships, workshops, camps, etc.).
âď¸Receive clarity, a sense of direction, and knowledge on how to best prepare your gifted child to use their God given gifts and to sharpen those gifts via accelerated options in high school that will count for college credit.
I know you desire the best for your gifted child
âď¸You will learn strategies on how to support your gifted scholar through their high school journey.
âď¸You will gain access to financial aid resources for financing your child's college education.
âď¸You will gain more confidence in acknowledging, affirming, and nurturing you child's God given gifts through their child's enrollment in the Gift Center Leadership Academy.
You're in the Right Place!
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I help develop Kingdom leaders who will discover, sharpen, steward, and operate in their gift in order to impact the seven mountains of influence for the glory of God while supporting parents as they navigate high school with their gifted child.
Hi, I'M Larissa!
Born in Port au Prince, Haiti and raised in the United States, I was born to teach. At the tender age of four years old, I knew that education would be the sphere of influence God created me to impact for His glory.
I spent my childhood in Boston, Massachusetts, where I was enrolled in various gifted programs as early as third grade. This continued into my middle school years, after my family relocated to Lawrenceville, Georgia.
God was faithful in blessing me with teachers and counselors to encourage me and point me in the right direction.
However, although I continued to challenge myself through AP courses and rigorous coursework, I wish I had more support, shepherding, and discipleship. What I know now as an educator, I wish I knew prior to graduating from high school. At times, it was a very lonely path. As a first generation college student of immigrant parents, we did not know the right questions to ask, nor where to look for the answers for life after college.
My vivid experiences of usually being the only student from a different cultural and linguistic background in my AP and advanced level classes enabled me to connect with my own students with similar experiences when I became a high school Spanish teacher. In 2014, God opened a door for me to serve as the International Baccalaureate and Gifted Coordinator for the Clarke County School District in Athens, Georgia.
When I learned that gifted minority students at my school were underrepresented in the AP Program and Advanced Level courses at the school, I established and led the Gifted Minorities Achieving Initiative, which provided support for culturally and linguistically diverse students and their families with the academic, social, and emotional support that is unique to gifted minority students. This experience was not only a powerful opportunity to be an agent of change in the field of education, but God used it to spark a new passion in my heart in leading and shepherding the next generation of Christ followers from all cultural backgrounds, because talent is found in all cultural groups!
I am a life long learner, a leader, a coach, a mentor, and an advocate for the âinvisibleâ gifted population in the public, private, and home school sectors. I would be so honored and blessed to partner with your child as he or she uses their God given gift to impact their God assigned sphere of influence!
"Gift Center has taught me about scholarships, grants and dual enrollment. This will help
me finish college debt free."
~Prince Gentillon
âThe experience for Faith was life changing. Faith was able to gain new perspectives on learning and career goals that impact her current motivation to strive for excellence academically.
Faith has never been big on academics in general however her experience with the Gift Center has triggered new desires and feelings around giving her all in whatever she is doing.
For example, today she could not wait to share with me that she received a 95 on a Chemistry exam that she studied diligently for. Her internship was another amazing experience that gave her the opportunity to get her feet wet in the area of baking which is one of her interests. Thankful that she gets the opportunity to continue to participate as a Gift Center scholar!!!â
-Henriette Robinson
âGCLA has helped me understand further options on how to get to college, and has helped me recognize the path that I am going to take after high school and college.â
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