Baywood Learning Center is designed to serve the special educational and emotional needs of gifted children; to help them understand the world they live in, become contributing members of our society, learn how to connect and cooperate with others and to understand their own strengths and challenges.  Each student is supported to define, pursue and fulfill their goals towards achieving a lifetime of success and happiness.

Gifted children have an intense need to understand subjects of study at a deeper level and to find personal meaning in their academic endeavors.  These children are often overwhelmed by emotional and physical sensitivity.  Some psychological risks for gifted students can include, “dumbing down” to try to be more “normal”, developing symptoms related to emotional stress, underachieving and/or refusing to do school work and being paralyzed by perfectionism. 

At Baywood Learning Center, we understand the role of the emotions in achievement and we guide our students towards academic excellence while striving to maintain emotional well-being.  Intellectual performance is encouraged, not pressured and can not be treated separately from emotional factors.  Our priority is to focus on individual development and the learning process, rather than on what the individual can do.  Students participate in determining the course of their curriculum with the guidance provided by the learning team.