Visual Mapping and Guiding Framework for the Educational Success of Twice-Exceptional Learners

Abstract

2e learners are complex and can present educationally as gifted underachievers, average learners, or learning-challenged students. Educators often struggle to find ways to guide the educational success of such learners due to a lack of tools and a guiding framework. This chapter introduces Nest!LE2e, a visually guided thinking, planning, and mapping framework and tool for schools, teachers, and parents when evaluating curriculum, instruction, and differentiation for twice-exceptional learners within local constraints. Visuals help to highlight and convey hard-to-integrate, complex interactions. Nest!LE2e allows for visual mapping of interactions amongst the 2e learner, the educator, contextual, and relational factors and creates a holistic synthesis of a 2e learner's educational profile that identifies areas for intervention and allows visual data to be tracked over time.