about margit crane

Byline

Margit Crane, M.A., M.S., M.Ed., is The Gifted-Teen Coach and an acclaimed author and speaker on family relationships, child development, and learning strategies. A former teacher and school counselor, Margit has coached hundreds of families to achieve clearer communication, greater understanding, mutual respect, and a lot more FUN in their relationships. Margit is the author of several books, including the forthcoming title, Gifted with AD/HD: Insider Strategies to Increase Your Child's Happiness and Success. To book Margit or to schedule a consultation, call 206-326-8446 or email Margit@TheGiftedTeenCoach.com

Broadcast Introduction

Margit (rhymes with "target") Crane is The Gifted Teen Coach and the author of the forthcoming book, Gifted with AD/HD: Insider Strategies to Increase Your Child's Happiness and Success. She specializes in working with families who have gifted kids that are underachieving, over-irritating, or both! Her energy, optimism, and practical yet loving approach to parenting (or being) a teen encourage clients to come into their power without needing to overpower. You can pick up one of several parenting power boosters by visiting www.TheGiftedTeenCoach.com. Welcome, Margit.

Full Bio

Margit Crane, the Gifted Teen Coach, is an acclaimed expert on teens, ‘tweens and their parents. Over the past 25 years, Margit has coached hundreds of families to achieve clearer communication, greater understanding, mutual respect, and a lot more FUN in their relationships. In her years as a teacher, school counselor, and community volunteer, she has offered seminars on such topics as self-esteem, body image, sexual orientation, multiple intelligences, transition to junior high, transition to college, the teen brain, parenting teens, addiction, and ADD/ADHD. She specializes in working with gifted kids with ADD/ADHD and their parents. 

Her coaching technique employs a dynamic and compassionate exchange of ideas, fortified with optimism, creativity, and devotion to her clients. Additionally, clients benefit from Margit's expertise in Child Development, Family Relationships, and Learning Strategies. Artfully combined, these elements make for wonderfully rapid and powerful behavioral and attitudinal shifts for clients and for their families.

Margit earned an M.A. in Spanish, an M.S. in School Counseling, and an M.Ed. in Education. She has a Teaching Credential in English and in Spanish and has taught and counseled educationally disadvantaged, special education and gifted students… and everyone in between! She is the author of many articles, books, and curricula. In 1996, her award-winning curriculum for Jewish teens, B'rakhot, was cited as a notable contribution to the last three centuries of Jewish education.

In 2002, Margit won an award for “Inspiring High School Educator” from UC San Diego. 

Margit lives, works, and plays in the greater Seattle area. Her interests include reading, biking, site-seeing and, of course, spending time with her husband, stepkids, and friends.

If you would like to interview Margit, you may reach her at 206-326-8446 or at Margit@TheGiftedTeenCoach.com