Ian Byrd Root Notebooks

Ian Byrd’s Root Notebooks are guided journals created by a gifted-education specialist to stretch advanced learners beyond standard assignments. Each notebook is full of open-ended prompts, thinking routines, and reflection questions that push kids to make connections, ask better questions, and dig deeper into their own interests. Parents of gifted and twice-exceptional kids like that the tone is friendly and validating rather than perfectionist. Root Notebooks work well as a once-a-week challenge or as a loose spine for creative, self-directed study. They’re not cheap, but because pages are reusable as discussion prompts and can be shared across siblings, many families find the investment worthwhile.