Center for Gifted Education

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Digital Exhibit Hall

Welcome Session - 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. (EST)

Keynote Speaker Bio- Megan Foley-Nicpon, Ph.D.

Keynote - Using Strength-Based Pedagogy to Engage and Challenge 2E Students' Development

Option 1 - Non-negotiables in the Learning Environment for Twice-exceptional Learners

Option 2 - Differentiation Squared: moving towards holistic embodied education of 2e learners

Option 3 - Instructional design for 2e Learners: The Bridges Four Pillars

Option 1 - "They’re All Going to Find Out I’m a Fraud!” Combatting Impostor Syndrome in the Gifted Brain

Option 2 - Supporting Growth Beyond the Grade: Promoting Psychosocial Skills for Twice-Exceptional Students

Option 3 - The What, Why and How of Executive Functioning for Gifted and 2e Students

Option 4 - NEST! guiding framework: Visualizing the 2e learner-educator success

Option 5 - The Ups and Downs of Parenting Your Twice-Exceptional Child

Friday Live Networking Lunch

Digital Exhibit Hall

Featured Speakers Bio- Joy Lawson Davis, Ed.D. & Emily Kircher-Morris, M.A., M.Ed., LPC

Option 1 - 3E: Navigate multiple worlds as culturally diverse multi-exceptional learners

Option 2 - Creating a Neurodiversity-Affirming Classroom

Option 1 - Ad Astra: Getting started with strength-based strategies for success

Option 2 - Leveraging Positive Niche Construction to Support 2e Learners: A Case Study of Octavia E. Butler

Option 3 - They Just WON'T DO IT: How to Help Your Neurodiverse Kids get Unstuck

Option 4 - Helping Twice-Exceptional Kids Manage ‘All the Feels’

Friday Live Networking Session

Digital Exhibit Hall

Option 1 - Navigating the Complexities of Asynchrony: A guide to meeting your children where they are

Option 2: Introduction to Twice-Exceptional Learners

SOCIAL HOUR

Welcome Session - 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. (EST)

Featured Speaker Bio - Dr. Jake Michaelson

Featured Speaker - High IQ and autism: for better and for worse

Option 1 - When LaZy Doesn’t Make Sense: Revealing the Impact of Executive Skill Delays for Gifted and Twice Exceptional Learners

Option 2 - The 2e Student’s Transition to College

Option 3 - Suicide Among Students with Gifts and Talents: What do we Know and How can we Prevent it?

Option 1 - What Do Parents Do With Their Children's Assessment Results?

Option 2 - Maker Spaces - "Making" Them Gifted

Option 3 - Assessing and Supporting 2e Students: Guidance for Practitioners and Families

Saturday Live Networking Lunch

Digital Exhibit Hall

Option 1 - College Guidance for Neurodiverse Students

Option 2 - It is Time to Shift your Perspective on the Selection & Implementation of Accommodations for 2e Students!

Option 3 - Neurodiversity: A thematic interdisciplinary unit for twice exceptional gifted learners

Option 4 - Developmental Coordination Disorder & Giftedness: Points for Parents and Educators Working with Parents

Option 1 - Strengths & Talents Rock! Tools that Reveal Our 2e Learners at their Best

Option 2 - How Optimal Match Transforms the Learning Experience for Neurodiverse Learners

Option 3 - Two Teens Use Policy Analysis to Examine the Health of a School District Gifted Program

Option 4 - Reimagining Socializing for Twice-Exceptional Students

Saturday Live Networking Session

Digital Exhibit Hall

Keynote Speaker Bio - Dr. Susan Baum

Keynote - Five Key Pieces to the 2e Puzzle