Beyond IQ
Lihi Engelsman leading a Limitless session with students

A COMPLETE SCHOOL PROVISION FOR SUPPORTING GIFTED STUDENTS  

Being gifted isn't always a gift.  Let's take care of them.

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What gifted students need from the adults around them.

A short look inside Limitless, our flagship pull-out program.

Where to begin

What are you looking for?

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Teacher training

Build your team’s expertise

Practical workshops that help educators recognise and respond to the needs of gifted and advanced learners.

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Project based platform

Differentiate for gifted students

Looking for a practical way to challenge advanced students during everyday lessons? Explore the Limitless PBL Platform.

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Limitless pull out program

Provide sustained enrichment

Create protected weekly time where advanced learners can work with like-minded peers on meaningful challenges.

What is Beyond IQ?

Practical gifted education training for the adults around gifted students.

Beyond IQ helps teachers, school leaders and parents understand what giftedness really looks like, so the students who are easy to miss finally get noticed and supported.

Workshops are built on case studies and classroom strategies your team can use the next day.  Join a focused session that fits your needs, or arrange a whole-staff training day.

If you don't understand what you're seeing, you can't support it.

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Teachers seated around tables listening during a staff training session
Teachers sorting cards during a Limitless training activity

Training for teachers

Three practical sessions on understanding, identifying and differentiating for gifted and high-potential learners.

Whole-staff training

Bring the whole team on board, in person or online, so everyone in the school speaks the same language.

Workshops for parents

A live session that helps parents understand what giftedness looks like at home and how to work with the school.

Recorded sessions

Every workshop is recorded and sent to all participants, so no one on your team misses out.

The Beyond IQ framework

From noticing a gifted student to knowing what to do next.

Every Beyond IQ workshop follows the same four movements. They are the reason training changes what happens the next morning.

  1. Lihi Engelsman presenting to teachers in a school classroom
    Understand.

    01

    Understand.

    Giftedness is more complex than high grades or finishing first. Understand the academic, social and emotional needs of gifted students.

  2. Teachers seated around tables listening during a staff training session
    Identify.

    02

    Identify.

    Learn to recognise the learners who are obvious, and the ones who are easier to miss.

  3. Teachers sorting cards during a Limitless training activity
    Support.

    03

    Support.

    Learn how to implement practical and simple tools to support these students in a regular classroom setting.

  4. Lihi Engelsman working with two teachers around a table during a workshop
    Challenge.

    04

    Challenge.

    Provide learning experiences that genuinely stretch students who need more challenge, choice, and connection.

Understand.Identify.Support.Challenge.

That's the work of Beyond IQ.

Watch

The myths and stereotypes that surround gifted students.

Why so many gifted students are missed, and what changes once staff know what to look for.

LET'S GET PRACTICAL

Our Whole-Staff Training

Each session is a three-hour training, practical from the first minute, built on case studies and strategies your team can use straight away.   Choose one session to address an immediate priority, or combine all three into a structured professional-learning series.

  1. 01

    Understanding Giftedness

    Recognising the unique needs and challenges of gifted students, including their social, emotional and academic needs and understanding the multiple dimensions of giftedness.

  2. 02

    Students Who Fly Under the Radar

    Understanding the characteristics of pupils who don't meet the 'fixed' definition of giftedness but show high potential and aptitude: highly creative pupils, twice-exceptional pupils and gifted girls.

  3. 03

    Practical Differentiation Strategies for Gifted Students

    Learning how to adapt and implement simple curriculum modifications to meet the needs of your advanced students.

How it runs

Give your team the tools to challenge advanced learners

  1. Lihi Engelsman presenting to teachers in a school classroom

    Three hours. Lasting impact.

    Help teachers recognise overlooked potential, understand gifted learners' needs and turn that understanding into classroom action.

  2. Lihi Engelsman leading a session from her laptop while teachers work at nearby tables

    Relevant to your classrooms

    Online or in person, with practical examples that connect to the challenges teachers face in international schools.

  3. Teachers seated around tables listening during a staff training session

    Build confidence across your team

    Train your whole staff or a selected group to make more confident, consistent decisions about support and challenge.

  4. Teachers sorting cards during a Limitless training activity

    Put it into practice tomorrow

    Leave with strategies to adapt existing lessons, deepen thinking and offer meaningful challenge without simply adding more work.

Book a Beyond IQ training and help your team turn high potential into deeper learning.

Discuss your school's training needs

Workshops for Educators

Practical learning, one focused topic at a time.

Practical workshops on giftedness, differentiation, motivation and belonging. Join one of our free 30-minute sessions or explore our longer professional learning workshops.

EXPLORE WORKSHOPS

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Understand, identify, support and challenge.

What teachers take away from a Beyond IQ workshop, in practice.

After the workshop

What happens after the workshop matters most.

“A very big thank you from all of us for helping us create a wonderful and successful parent evening and also for your help and guidance towards our programme. We have already received quite a few emails from parents who have expressed their happiness and enthusiasm for the upcoming year.”

Cathy Taal, G&T Coordinator, European School The Hague

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Trusted

Trusted by international schools and organisations

  • Europese School Den Haag
  • Rivers International School Arnhem
  • Elckerlyc International School
  • International School Groningen
  • Rotterdam International Secondary School
  • Amstelland International School
  • Hangzhou International School
  • European Council for High Ability
  • World Council for Gifted and Talented Children
  • Council of British International Schools
  • GESS
  • Partner school
Lihi Engelsman, gifted education specialist and founder of Beyond IQ

About

Meet Lihi Engelsman.

I used to assume gifted students would simply do well. The more I studied gifted education, the more I realised how much adults can miss when we only look for high achievement.

More about Lihi

The Limitless film

See what happens when provision follows understanding.

Limitless is Beyond IQ's ready-to-teach enrichment program. The short film shows students, teachers and parents describing what changed once gifted provision became part of the school week.

Limitless helps schools turn understanding into action through classroom differentiation tools and sustained weekly provision.

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Differentiation in class

Challenge your advanced students inside the lesson.

A project-based learning platform that gives advanced students meaningful, independent challenge within regular lessons — without extra work for teachers.

What would your team see differently after one training?

Let's find out.