Center for Gifted Education

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Digital Sponsorship & Exhibit Hall

Bonus Material- Introduction to Twice-Exceptional Learners

Collecting Your Certificate

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

Featured Speaker Bio- Emily Kircher-Morris, M.A., M.Ed., LPC

Featured Speaker Session

Option 1 - Technology to Support Twice-Exceptional Students

Option 2 - Gifted LGBTQ+ Students with Disabilities: Needs, Masks, and Educational Approaches

Option 3 - Define Least Restrictive Environment: How to decide if your student would benefit from a 2e Specialty School

Option 4 - Gifted & ADHD; What it Means and What To Do For Twice Exceptional Children and Students

Option 5 - Check-In & Connect!

Keynote Speaker Bio - Mona Delahooke, Ph.D.

Keynote: The Importance of Looking Beyond Behaviors to Support Children’s Social and Emotional Development

Friday Live Networking Lunch

Digital Sponsorship & Exhibit Hall

Option 1 - Failure is Fun...damental

Option 2 - Building Awareness & Positive Self-Identity for Twice-Exceptional Learners Through Games

Option 3 - College Suggestions for 2E Learners

Option 4 - Weighted down by the model minority myth: Gifted Underachievers and/or 2e Asian Americans?

Option 5 - Got (2e) Kids: Now What? Building a Twice-Exceptional Program in the Public School

Option 1 - Create a 2e Profile: Under what conditions does your 2e child thrive?

Option 2 - Charting Your Own Path: Homeschooling 2e

Option 3 - Regulate, Relate, Educate: Teaching Twice-Exceptional without Teaching Twice

Option 4 - Cycle for Success: Bringing out the Best and Raising Self Confidence in 2e Learners

Option 5 - Assessing & Supporting 2e Learners- Guidance for Practitioners and Families

Friday Live Networking Session

Digital Sponsorship & Exhibit Hall

Option 1 - Getting Students Writing: How to Support Twice Exceptional Students and Other Reluctant Writers

Option 2 - Film in the Classroom: Engaging The Twice-Exceptional Mind Through Movie-Making

Option 3 - Creating strength-based and talent-focused home environments for twice-exceptional learners

Option 4 - From Survival Mode to Self Actualization: Preserving the Dignity of 2e Students

Option 5 - Having a Different Brain is Cool! Empowering 2e Learners

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

Featured Speaker Bio - Dr. Claire E Hughes

Featured Speaker - Surviving, Striving, Thriving: Mental Health Strategies for Twice-Exceptional Children (and their teachers and parents, too!)

Option 1: Behind the Scenes: How Montgomery County Public Schools Makes 2e Magic

Option 2 - Supporting the Social/Emotional Wellness of 2e Children in Military Families in Times of Transition

Option 3 - The Struggle is Real: Supporting Handwriting Development of Gifted and High-ability Learners

Option 4 - Very Interesting! Tips and Strategies for Discovering and Utilizing Students’ Strengths!

Option 5 - ABC's of Special Education

Option 6: Strength-Based Goal Setting for 2E Learners

Option 1 - Riding Out the Storm: Managing Emotional Intensity in 2E Students

Option 2 - Parenting Your Neurodiverse Child Without Losing Your Mind

Option 3 - Real Life in 2e: Practical, Strength-based Strategies for Serving 2e Children in the Classroom

Option 4 - Gifted and Hating Math in a STEM Focused World

Option 5 - Using Data to Determine Scaffolds, Supports, Services, and Enrichment for 2e Learners in Advanced Mathematics Courses

Saturday Live Networking Lunch

Digital Sponsorship & Exhibit Hall

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

Option 2 - Strength Identification for 2e students in the Home

Option 3 - Where Outliers Are In: 2e Lessons from Self-Directed Education

Option 4 - Using Bibliotherapy with 2e Gifted Learners: A Tool for Identity Development

Option 5 - The combination of two strengths in Twice Exceptional Individuals: The alicorn paradigm

Option 1 - Providing Gifted Services Without a Gifted Program: Necessary Ways to Engage Our Neurodiverse Learners (Minus the Red Tape)

Option 2 - Attention Divergent Hyperactive Giftedness: A Paradigm Shift

Option 3 - It’s Not Like Sheldon: When Giftedness and Autism Spectrum Disorder Interact

Option 4 - Lessons Learned from Emergency Remote Instruction with Gifted and Twice Exceptional Learners

Option 5 - Project-based Learning & Design Thinking: Antidotes to Perfectionism

Keynote Speaker Bio - Dr. C. Matt Fugate

Keynote - Gifted by Any Other Name

Networking Event