Registration opens at 8:45 am for those wishing to come early for the 9:10 presentation.
It is suggested that those attending the parent workshop arrive by 10:15.
Enduring Advocacy Issues for
Parents of Gifted Students
A Beyond Giftedness Parent Workshop with Dr. Stephen Schroeder-Davis
10:20 - 12:20
In virtually every educational setting in America there are aspects of giftedness that must be understood if gifted students are to thrive, including:
- Precocity and asynchronicity
- Over-excitabilities
- The "selective consumer"
- Difficulty vs. Complexity
- Introversion
- Mindsets and Perfectionism
- Envy
This presentation will focus on each of these issues in turn and will provide parents with strategies to use as they support gifted children.
Dr. Stephen Schroeder-Davis
With more than 40 years in gifted education, Stephen Schroeder-Davis's work has won the John C. Gowan Doctoral Research Award from the National Association for Gifted Children. He has contributed to publications such as Understanding Our Gifted, Parenting for High Potential, Education Week, Book Links and Gifted Education Press, among others. Dr. Schroeder-Davis has served on the board of various GT organizations, and is both a state and regional winner of the Whitney and Elizabeth MacMillan (WEM) award for promoting academic excellence, awarded by the Center for Academic Excellence. He has received the “Friend of the Gifted” award from the MCGT and MEGT and Ohio’s Parent Council for his work in gifted education. Dr. Schroeder-Davis’ many roles include differentiation coach, curriculum specialist, university professor, author, keynote speaker, and, perhaps most importantly, teacher. Currently a columnist for Understanding our Gifted, Dr. Schroeder-Davis works as a Gifted Curriculum Specialist and teaches an online GT certificate program for educators.
12:20 - 12:50 Lunch provided
12:50 - 1:50pm Beyond Giftedness XXI Keynote Presentation with Dr. Karen Rogers:
"Reasearch-based Educational Options for Learners With Gifts and Talents: Inside and Outside of School"
Dr. Rogers will share her research on the wide variety of options currently available to gifted and talented learners both inside and outside of school. A focus will be placed on how teachers (and parents!) can proactively pave the way for these options to happen.
Dr. Rogers is Professor of Gifted Studies in the Special Education & Gifted Education Department in the College of Applied Professional Studies at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she has been employed since 1984. She is a Professorial Fellow at the University of New South Wales and the University of Wollongong in Australia. She is past president of CEC-TAG, past chair of the AERA SIG, Research on Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent, and has been on the Board of Directors of NAGC. She is author of five books, including Reforming Gifted Education. She is Associate Editor of the Journal for Advanced Academics, and is on the editorial review panels for Roeper Review, Gifted Child Quarterly, Journal for Education of the Gifted, and the Australasian Journal of Gifted Education. She has expertise in research-based gifted practices via research syntheses of the research in gifted education and has interests in arts education, cognitive processing, parenting, creativity, gifted program development and evaluation, and twice exceptional learners, for which she currently holds a Javits research grant. She is the mother of three highly gifted children and the grandmother to nine gifted grandsons.
Added Options for Parents Interested in Twice-Exceptionality!
- 9:20 - 10am session for educators and parents by Barbara Gilman: "The Cloak of Invisibility: Why Twice Exceptional Children are Missed"
- 2 - 2:50pm session for educators and parents by Marlo Payne Thurman: "Twice-Exceptionality - Common Questions, Expert Answers"
Parent conference flyer
Registration Fee: $49.00
Includes parent workshop, lunch with attendees, and PM keynote for the Beyond Giftedness Conference.
Full day registration includes AM keynote and additional break-out sessions ($119 registration fee). Full Day Conference Details
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