2025 Twice-Exceptional Conference

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CONFERENCE

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Conference Information

1. A Word from the Director
2. Conference Schedule
3. Meet our Featured Speakers
4. How to use the Conference Platform
5. Frequently Asked Questions
6. Connect with Us
7. Sponsorship hall
8. Bonus Material- Introduction to Twice-Exceptional Learners
1. Welcome Session - 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. (EST)
1. Featured Speaker Bio - Julie Skolnick
2. Featured Speaker Session - Thursday
1. Option 1 - A Tour of the Tiers: Tiered instruction for 2e Learners for RTI/MTSS
2. Option 2 - Twice-Exceptional Frenemies: How Special Education and Gifted Education Are Alike and Different and How To Work Together
3. Option 3 - The Neurodiversity Playbook: How Neurodivergent People can Crack the Code of Living in a Neurotypical World
4. Option 4 - Building Connections: Neurodiversity-Affirming Strategies for 2e Learners
5. Option 5 - Writing on Their Terms: Empowering Reluctant Writers Through Choice and Creativity
1. Option 1 - Exploring Diverse Minds: Using Gameplay to Help Twice-exceptional Learners Embrace Positive Self-Identities
2. Option 2 - Top 10 Strategies for Successful Communication Between Parents and Educators of 2e Students
3. Option 3 - Leveraging Gifted Students' Strengths to Improve Executive Functioning in the Math Classroom
4. Option 4 - Mismatched Expectations, Best Laid Plans, and Other Co-Regulation Adventures: Supporting 2e Students without Burning Out
5. Option 5 - Trellis and Bloom 2.0: AI Challenge and Support for Twice-Exceptional Learners
1. Take a Break
2. Sponsorship Hall
1. Featured Speaker Bio - Dr. Susan Baum
2. Featured Speaker Session - Thursday
1. Option 1 - Recognizing "Quirky" Attributes as Community Assets: Activities to Guide Inclusivity in Learning and Work Environments
2. Option 2 - A Solution Focused Approach in Guiding Twice Exceptional Students
3. Option 3 - Eliminating the Hoops: Finding and Accessing Supports and Programs for 2e Multipotentialites
4. Option 4 - "Crazy Smart" or Just "Crazy?" Is there an Intersection Between Neurodivergence and Serious Mental Illness?
5. Option 5 - Assessing & Supporting 2e Learners - Guidance for Practitioners & Families
1. Option 1 - When LaZy Doesn't Make Sense: Linking Student Behaviors to Lagging Executive Skill Development
2. Option 2 - Parent-Led Learning Co-Ops: A Model of Success with the Gifted Homeshool Forum - Gifted/2e Virtual Co-Op
3. Option 3 - How to Teach Twice-exceptional Learners: The DEAR REEL Model
4. Option 4 - MTSS Tiered Excellence: A Systems Approach for Addressing Strengths and Challenges of 2E Students
5. Option 5 - Prevalence of Emotional, Intellectual, Imaginational, Psychomotor, and Sensual Overexcitabilities in Highly and Profoundly Children and Adolescents: A Mixed-Methods Study of Development and Developmental Potential
1. Welcome Session - 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. (ET)
1. Featured Speaker Bio - Dr. Julia Roberts
2. Featured Session - Advocacy and Policy Matter for 2e Students to Thrive
1. Option 1 - Leveraging Social Stories and Narratives to Enhance Understanding of Neurodiversity and Dual Exceptionality
2. Option 2 - The Four Pillars: Building a Curriculum Where Twice-Exceptional Students Thrive
3. Option 3 - Preassessment and Reflection: Two Practices Leading to Defensible Differentiation
4. Option 4 - It Doesn't Add Up: Strengths, Perceptions, and Experiences of Gifted Adults with Dyscalculia
5. Option 5 - The Term Papers That Changed My Life: Bibliotherapy & Metacognition in Action
6. Option 6 - Revealing Possibilities: A Parent's Guide to Nurturing Gifted Children with Learning Differences (dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia)
1. Option 1 - Nurturing the Social, Emotional, and Holistic Development of Twice-Exceptional Learners
2. Option 2 - Saving Time and Stress with Strength-Based Learning Activities for Universal Stimuli
3. Option 3 - Designing virtual reality assisted online curricula for students with learning differences
4. Option 4 - Can't Not Won't: Supporting Gifted Youth with a Pathological Demand Avoidant (PDA) Autistic Profile at School and at Home
5. Option 5 - The Impact of Natural Mentorships on Twice-Exceptional Youth
1. Take a Break
2. Sponsorship Hall
1. Option 1 - Empowering Gifted, Twice-Exceptional Children to Thrive: A Support Framework for Parents
2. Option 2 - Getting to the Root Causes of Twice Exceptionality (2e): Beyond The Usual Suspects
3. Option 3 - Revolutionizing Gifted and Twice-Exceptional Education with AI Tools
4. Option 4 - Instructional Strategies for Twice-Exceptional Learners in the General Education Classroom
5. Option 5 - The 5F Model for Developing Strengths-Based Education Plans for Twice-Exceptional Students
1. Option 1 - Beyond Behavior Charts: Reframing and Rethinking Behavior Through a Neurodiversity-Affirming Lens
2. Option 2 - Strength-Based IEP Goals: What They Are & How to Write Them
3. Option 3 - 2e Learner Breakthrough Stories: Removing Hurdles in Day to Day Learning
4. Option 4 - How Blockbridge Increased Identification of Historically Underrepresented Groups by 16x
5. Option 5 - Connecting the Dots through the Power of Partnership: Supporting Twice Exceptional Learners
1. Featured Speaker Bio - Emily Kircher-Morris
2. FRIDAY Featured Session - For the Love of Learning

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2E

Countdown to 2E @ W&M

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Pre-Conference Information

THURSDAY - Welcome - 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Eastern

THURSDAY - Live FEATURED Speaker - 9:00 a.m.- 10:00 a.m. ET

THURSDAY - Breakout Sessions 1 - 10:15 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. ET

THURSDAY - Breakout Sessions 2 - 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. ET

THURSDAY - Lunch Break- 12:30 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. ET

THURSDAY - Live FEATURED Speaker - 1:15 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. ET

THURSDAY - Breakout Sessions 3 - 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. ET

THURSDAY - Breakout Sessions 4 - 3:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. ET

FRIDAY - Welcome - 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. ET

FRIDAY - Featured Speaker - 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. ET

FRIDAY - Breakout Sessions 1 - 10:15 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. ET

FRIDAY - Breakout Sessions 2 - 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. ET

FRIDAY- Lunch Break 12:30 p.m.- 1:15 p.m. ET

FRIDAY - Breakout Sessions 3 - 1:15 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. ET

FRIDAY - Breakout Sessions 4 - 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. ET

FRIDAY - Live Featured Speaker - 3:45 - 4:45 p.m ET

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