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11:00am CST

Achieving Equity in Gifted Education: Using the Naglieri General Ability Tests

Wednesday December 4, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CST

Increasing diversity and achieving equity has long been a goal of gifted education. Even so, Brown and Black students and those living in poverty remain glaringly missing. Language demands of verbal and quantitative ability tests are barriers for many students. Learn methods for equitable identification and building inclusive gifted programming.

Speakers

Kim Lansdowne

Executive Director, Herberger Young Scholars Academy

Kimberly is the founding Executive Director of the Herberger Young Scholars Academy, a distinguished secondary school catering to highly gifted students at Arizona State University.In 2023, Kimberly was honored with the Arizona Association for Gifted and Talented Lifetime Achievement... Read More →

Dr. Dina Brulles

Academic Associate, MLF Teacher's College, Arizona State University

Dina Brulles, Ph.D., is the Gifted Masters Program Coordinator at Arizona State University and the former Director of Gifted Education at Paradise Valley USD in Arizona. Dina has served as NAGC’s Governance Secretary and the board’s School District Representative. She received... Read More →

Wednesday December 4, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CST
Conference Room 8 (3rd Floor)

Identification and Assessment

Keyword Coordinators/Specialists

3:15pm CST

Teaching Strategies for Enhancing Thinking and Feeling: A Curricular Model of Confluence [Secondary Focus]

Wednesday December 4, 2024 3:15pm - 4:45pm CST

Conference Room 8 (3rd Floor)

Strategies for helping gifted students integrate cognitive and affective processes while learning academic content will be the focus of this session. Participants will evaluate and improve a set of strategies designed to stimulate confluent thinking and leave the session armed with concrete strategies for differentiating thinking processes for diverse learners.

Speakers

Joyce Miller, Ph.D.

Professor Curriculum and Instruction, Texas A&M University Commerce

Joyce E. Kyle Miller, holds the doctorate in Supervision, Curriculum and Instruction and has completed post-doctoral education in Gifted Education at the University of North Texas and the University of Connecticut-Storrs. Dr. Miller developed the gifted and talented graduate program... Read More →

Connie Phelps

Gifted Program Director & Professor, Emporia State University

Shaunise Robinson, Ed.D.

Owner, Poised for Success

Shaunise Pelts Robinson earned her Bachelor’s degree in Special Education and a Master’s degree in Educational Administration. She holds the doctoral degree in Curriculum and Instruction department at Texas A&M University-Commerce. She has experience as an elementary special... Read More →

Wednesday December 4, 2024 3:15pm - 4:45pm CST
Conference Room 8 (3rd Floor)

Creativity and Instructional Strategies

Keyword Secondary, Social Emotional Needs